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Soviet-Afghan War
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When Was the Afghanistan War? The Full Timeline & Hidden Layers of America’s Longest Conflict
The war’s phases resist neat categorization. The Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989) was framed as a Cold War proxy battle, but its legacy birthed the Taliban in the...
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The Forgotten War: When Did Russia Invade Afghanistan and Why It Still Haunts Geopolitics
Yet the invasion’s immediate trigger was the sudden collapse of the fragile alliance between Moscow and Afghanistan’s communist government. Just months...