The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that ignoring the Soviet Union's role in liberating Nazi German death camps ...

President Mahmoud Abbas is confirmed to attend Soviet victory celebrations in Moscow, marking the 80th anniversary of World War Two's end. The event, held on May 9, will see leaders from various ...

WARSAW, August 1. /TASS/. Russia’s Embassy to Poland has started repairing two major cemeteries to Soviet soldiers in the country, head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s representative office ...

"We will always remember that it was the Soviet soldier who crushed this terrible, total evil and won the victory, the greatness of which will forever remain in world history," Putin said ...

World War Two was the most destructive global conflict in history. It began when Nazi Germany unleashed ferocious attacks across Europe - but it spread to the Soviet Union, China, Japan and the ...

The last surviving Soviet soldier involved in liberating the Auschwitz ... had been murdered by the Nazis at the camp in Poland during the Second World War. Image: David Dushman said there were ...