Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's powerful Security Council, told Afghanistan's Taliban leaders on Monday that Moscow ...

Putin courts closer ties with the Taliban in pursuit of new allies - Searching to ease its isolation on the international ...

The bill has been presented to the state Duma in a move reflecting strengthening ties between the two nations.

A group of Russian lawmakers submitted a bill that would allow the Taliban Islamist movement to be removed from Russia's list ...

When asked whether the Soviet Union should have sent troops to Afghanistan, 42% of those polled said no, while 31% said yes. Another 27% found it difficult to answer the question. Most of those ...

The US accuses Russia of trying to destabilise Afghanistan by supporting the Taliban. Senior US officials have been saying for months that Moscow is even supplying the militants with weapons.

True to the 'X factor' of Afghanistan's nebulous, twisting history, it took a relic of the Soviet fishing industry to bring the Western war machine to a standstill. As international forces arrived ...

Potentially, it has multiple motives. Russia maintains close links with the Taliban for good reason. It sees the US involvement in Afghanistan winding down. It is deeply concerned about the rise ...

Russia, China, Iran, India, and, most of all, Pakistan have interests at stake as the U.S. aims to withdraw from Afghanistan. The one-day conference last week is part of a larger effort by ...

The reality in Afghanistan and the region provides a lot for peacemakers to work with -- if we can look past gloomy predictions. 40 years ago, the Soviet Union eliminated a communist rival from ...