America Must Lead in the Middle East with Strength, Not Slogans Exit Waltz Last year saw a striking dip in civilian casualties of the Afghan war. Twenty-nine years ago last week, the Soviet Union ...

The Soviet Union sent thousands of its soldiers into Afghanistan at the end of December 1979. The resulting conflict lasted nearly a decade, and estimates widely put the Soviet death toll at ...

When Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan ... Over the next few years, the Soviets increased their control of Afghanistan, inflicting many casualties -- guerrilla and civilian.

Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas ... over 25,000 Soviet soldiers and countless casualties. It was an intervention meant to ...

Talk to Russian veterans of Afghanistan and it's hard not to think that they're rooting for the U.S. to lose. For these proud men, seeing NATO succeed at a job they botched would deepen the ...

MOSCOW — When Igor Lisinenko entered what he was told was an Afghan rebel base in 1982, he wasn’t sure what to expect. It was, after all, his first assignment as a member of a Soviet army ...

Although he led Afghanistan’s Soviet-backed Communist party ... piling up the military and civilian casualties and helping generate growing numbers of extremist militants, to which the United ...

By contrast, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet casualties totalled 14,453 dead and 53,753 wounded — over a decade. The Soviet Union had twice the population of Russia today — and a ...

They estimate a high death toll that outstripped the nine-year Soviet-Afghan war in a few months. They blamed "a lack of flexibility" from the top. Russia is suffering a higher death toll because ...

The East River Range dates to the 1980s, when the Soviet army occupied Afghanistan. It's full of mines, grenades and other ordnance that should have detonated during training exercises over the years.

That is why the study puts the total Russian death toll at “between 40,000 and 55,000” – a relatively broad estimate that is no less striking, suggesting a minimum of 15,000 Russian soldiers ...