When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1979 ... the Soviet forces learned that the tough Afghan terrain of mountains, valleys, and deserts posed such unique challenges to conventional ...

The tomb of the ‘evil’ Mughal king is 500 km from the Maharashtra city that is under curfew. Here’s where history’s other bad men are buried, from Genghis Khan to Pol Pot to Hitler to Idi Amin ...

Babych doesn’t know how long she and her family will be allowed to stay in Stoughton now that President Donald Trump has ended humanitarian parole — the immigration channel that tens of thousands of ...

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan exposed how the absence of ... Soviet mechanized and motor rifle units, particularly in mountain warfare, often failed to react dynamically to ambushes, as ...

Closer to home, we can refer to the similar case of divided ethnic groups and nationalities: the Baloch (Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan ... it was crushed after the Soviets withdrew.

When the Civil War broke out, the men of Cold Mountain, North Carolina ... a submarine that can move silently under the sea. The Soviets dispatch their entire navy to destroy it and tell the ...