“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 ...

A Soviet special forces unit lands in Afghanistan combat operation in the area of Nangarhar province. Andrei Solomonov/Sputnik Moscow reasoned it would finally concede to Amin’s repeated ...

The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 in order to prop up a friendly government. They withdrew in 1989 as the Soviet Union disintegrated, leaving the Afghan forces to take the lead in fighting ...

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 ...

"We did not succeed and you will not either," says Gen. Victor Yermakov, who commanded Soviet forces in Afghanistan from 1982 to 1983. "They didn't trust us. They won't trust you." Ambassador ...

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.

MOSCOW, Oct. 25 -- As a special operations commander with Soviet military forces trying to subdue Afghanistan in the early 1980s, Sergei Goncharov's mandate was to capture or kill Afghan guerrilla ...

He served in a special ops ... own memories from Afghanistan to confront. M KHODZHAYEV: (Non-English language spoken). MAYNES: Mukhru served as a translator for Soviet forces in 1987, where ...

When the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989 in compliance with ... Taliban government in the fall of 2001 with the deployment of less than 1,000 special forces and intelligence ...

Special Forces soldiers don't need to shave ... shrapnel from a wound he suffered two decades ago during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Wheat fields stretch out on both sides of the ...

“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 ...