What do they all have in common? Larry Mantle talks with veteran producer for CBS's 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II George Crile about his new book Charlie Wilson's War (Atlantic Monthly Press). In it, ...
The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...
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 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - An ambitious series of 12 new plays about Afghanistan opening in London this week underlines how history has a habit of repeating itself for foreign powers seeking to impose their ...