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6 days ago · Cold War International History Project. Writing in late 1988, Nikolay Egorychev, the Soviet Ambassador in Kabul, reflected on the Soviet failure in Afghanistan. Ten years after the Saur (April) Revolution that had brought the communist People’s Democratic Party to power (PDPA) and eight years after the Soviets had militarily intervened to ...
1 day ago · The 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War, also known as the First Afghan Civil War, took place between the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the Soviet–Afghan War on 15 February 1989 until 27 April 1992, ending the day after the proclamation of the Peshawar Accords proclaiming a new interim Afghan government which was supposed to start serving on 28 April 1992.
- 15 February 1989 – 27 April 1992, (3 years, 2 months, 1 week and 5 days)
- Afghanistan (spillover into Pakistan)
6 days ago · Part of the CWIHP e-Dossier Series. Publication. New Evidence on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Cold War International History Project. Cold War Afghanistan Soviet Union. Download the publication. CWIHP e-Dossier No. 4.
4 days ago · soviet-afghan war. Full Episodes; Podcasts; Newsletters; Live; World Nov 25. Former head of Saudi intelligence recounts America’s longstanding ties to Afghanistan. By Nick Schifrin.
4 days ago · In December 2010, the U.S. war in Afghanistan, which officially began October 7, 2001, exceeded the length of the entire Soviet campaign in Afghanistan. Comparisons to the Soviet–Afghan War. There is barely an important piece of land in Afghanistan that has not been occupied by one of our soldiers at some time or another.
May 8, 2024 · Part of the series Hindsight Up Front: Afghanistan. Publication. Towards an International History of the War in Afghanistan, 1979-1989. Cold War International History Project. By Christian F. Ostermann Mircea Munteanu. Cold War. Download the publication.
4 days ago · Ahmad Shah Massoud ( Dari / Pashto: احمد شاه مسعود, Persian pronunciation: [ʔæhmæd ʃɒːh mæsʔuːd]; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician. [4] He was a powerful guerrilla commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to 1989.
