Political Affairs

The S-300 (NATO reporting name SA-10 Grumble) is a series of initially Soviet and later Russian long range surface-to-air missile systems produced by NPO Almaz, all based on the initial S-300P version. The S-300 system was developed to defend against...

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (Pashto: محمد نجيب الله ; August 6, 1947 – September 27, 1996), [1] better known mononymously as Najibullah orNajib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992 when the mujahideen took over Kabul. He had previously...

A view of Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley The Panjshir offensives (Russian: Пандшерская операция - Panjsher Operations) were a series of battles between the Soviet Army and groups of Afghan Mujahideen under Ahmad Shah Massoud for the control of the strategic...

Soviet troops (in right row) withdrawing from Afghanistan in 1988. Afghan government BTR on the left The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces...

The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet...