(Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to recognise the Taliban government of the country. In a statement, ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...

Russia is increasingly approaching Afghanistan as yet another Central Asian state – including gradually opening access to its labor migration system. Taliban delegation members look at a model of St.

Russia’s recognition of the Taliban provides much sought-after legitimacy to a regime that is enforcing the world’s most extreme version of gender apartheid. In 1979, Russia, as the Soviet Union, ...

Russia almost doubled its exports of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Central Asian countries and Afghanistan in ...

The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) was a grueling counterinsurgency conflict that tested the limits of—and ultimately broke—Soviet military might. Amid the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, where ground ...

Representatives of the Taliban will take part in talks in Moscow next month on the future of Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday. “The initial response is positive – they ...

War rugs blur the line between artifact and artwork, offering a form of vernacular expression that questions authorship, intention and audience. © The Trustees of ...

Two years into his prison term for a 2020 murder, Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited into a Russian private military company (PMC) in exchange for freedom. He returned home from Ukraine in 2023and, within ...

Fatima Baloch [email protected] On September 12, 2001, just after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. Secretary of State Colin ...

Refugees experience mental illness at higher rates than the general population. Bombings, death, and uncertainty -- life in Afghanistan has become a nightmare for many Afghans looking to escape the ...