Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas in 1979 and dragged on for a further nine years, causing the deaths of over 25,000 Soviet soldiers and ...

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 ...

From 1979 to 1989, the Soviet Union fought a brutal and costly war in Afghanistan, seeking to prop up a communist government against insurgent groups known as the Mujahideen. Despite massive firepower ...