A Russian military spy unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to attack coalition forces in Afghanistan, including U.S. and British troops, in a striking escalation of the Kremlin’s ...

Even some of Chechnya's infamous "black widows" -- with an ideological kinship to those Russian forces recently ... decorated special operator whose nine deployments to Afghanistan began in ...

The 40th Army was dispatched south, and when it finally arrived in force in Afghanistan in late December 1979, its mission was not to assist Amin but to assassinate him. Soviet Special Forces ...

“Afghanistan made it Russia because they ... and the president was killed soon after, when Soviet special-forces units stormed his palace. The bungling would have been comical were the results ...

In reality, however, Spetsnaz are not a specific tactical unit but a more general clandestine force which were deployed at the behest of the Soviet intelligence security services for special missions.

D.C., do not understand the profound role that Mi-24 Hind helicopters provided for the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. During the Panjshir Valley offensives, for example, Hinds would pound insurgent ...

The former US Special Forces engineer says the overwhelming numbers of land mines is wildly different from anything he saw in Afghanistan. "How do you clear all of this out?" Hendrickson asked in ...

Bukkvoll, a Norwegian defense analyst, uses a vast range of sources to put together a comprehensive history of Soviet and Russian special forces, known as spetsnaz ... own with the Soviet intervention ...

Western intelligence agencies are looking for ways to help anti-government forces in Afghanistan ... it was noted that Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation in the field of special services is ...

Documents shown to court by MoD show the officer rejected every application referred to him in the summer of 2023.

White was one of a few dozen women recruited from hundreds of applicants to join Special Operations forces on the front lines of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, at a time when women soldiers were ...