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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989 after Moscow's failed decade-long campaign there, said on Tuesday that NATO's own deployment to the country had been doomed from the start....
The group was formed by "mujahideen" fighters who fought Soviet forces in the 1980s with the backing of the CIA. What is the group's history in Afghanistan? Emerging in 1994 as one of several factions fighting a civil war, the Taliban gained control of much of the ...
The leaders concealed the war from the general public and created war policies that harmed the soldiers serving on the ground. The decision to employ secrecy and the war polices created the bitter legacy iof that war in the Soviet Union. The case of Afghanistan, however, is but the last ...
"The Voice of the New Due Process Army" ———– Musings on Events in U.S. Immigration Court, Immigration Law, Sports, Music, Politics, and Other Random Topics by Retired United States Immigration Judge (Arlington, Virginia) and former Chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals PAUL WICKHAM...
aThe Afghan refugees who streamed out of their country after the 1979 invasion by Soviet forces were the largest refugee caseload of concern to UNHCR. About 2.7 million persons fled to Iran and Pakistan. As Afghanistan remained divided into regions of relative peace and ongoing combat, UNHCR atte...
Alexander the Great, ancient Persians, Seljuk Turks, Genghis Khan and the Mongol hordes, Indian Moguls, Russian czars, Queen Victoria, Leonid Brezhnev, and American presidents have all noted Afghanistan's strategic importance. The endless fighting has turned Afghans into some of the best warriors ...
James Kestrel won the Best First Novel Edgar Award for Five Decembers, a crime novel that starts at the end of November, 1941. We know what is coming next but few in this terrific debut suspect what is approaching. Detective McGrady is pretty new to the Honolulu Police Department but he...
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