The Soviet intervention underscored Afghanistan’s strategic importance as the fulcrum of great power politics. Pakistan ...

At least 88 cases of sectarian violence in Bangladesh in recent months; In Seoul, President Yoon Suk-yeol again defends martial law; Italy, Japan and the UK are ready to de ...

Although only ten when the 1982 conflict, and living in Uruguay, on writing the book he was much intrigued about how involved the Soviets were ... or not for invading Afghanistan in 1979.

The RQ-170 is one of the valuable ISR capabilities of the US Air Force able to collect live videos feeds of points of ...

Russia's own military force in Syria, including jets and naval vessels, has pulled back and appears to be partially evacuating, but it has not yet withdrawn from the country. A renegotiated lease that ...

What we want to see is the establishment of a Syrian national government that encompasses all of the various ethnic groups” ...

Sham, the radical group that overthrew the Assad regime in Syria, has its roots in the Sunni "nationalist jihadism" of the ...

The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced yesterday that longtime Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu was ...

As in many parts of the world, history is very much a political weapon in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is difficult to assess conflicts in Syria (and the British/Western interest) for this reason, ...

In the 1970s, we had to fight fears of the Soviets invading our country after Afghanistan. Simplistically, we took to the idea of training and funding civilians, religiously inclined or financially ...