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3 most successful Soviet military operations in Afghanistan Alexander Graschenkov/Sputnik Soviet troops in Afghanistan were not supposed to do any major fighting themselves and were originally there to assist the Afghan army. However, owing to the latter's weakness, the entire burden of the war fell on Soviet shoulders. 1. The Kunar Operation (May 19 - June 12, 1985) L.Yakutin/Sputnik Kunar Province in the east of Afghanistan was a cause of particular concern to both the country's government and the command of the Limited Contingent of Soviet Forces throughout th...

British army officers were ‘organising and running their own private war’ in Northern Ireland Photo surveillance techniques used to gather intelligence on Soviet troop movements in East Germany were used by the army’s notorious Force Research Unit to help its agents monitor targets in Northern Ireland A Royal Air Force (RAF) intelligence veteran has claimed that British detectives “weren’t interested” in hearing his evidence about the possible collusion of senior British army officers in murders in Northern Ireland. Geoff Currums, a military surveillance specialist who retired as ...

A beautiful city. the sort that wasn't planned but instead grew naturally so a person can get lost in its winding streets. filmy us is a bastion of catholicism this monument was blown up by soviets but once the occupation ended with the way he rebuilt it funny old much but in best you have the best view overbill nias from up here on the hill of three crosses and it's a baroque masterpiece with rows of church towers but one thing is missing the city once had one hundred thirty senegal but only two survived the war. why. it's been miliard with the trail of destroyed jewish monuments left by sovi...

Should just smith from reuters there joining us from seoul south korea. well tensions on the north korean peninsula have escalated over the past two years with launching repeated nuclear missile tests the two koreas have not been it peace since the korean war ended over sixty years ago here's a look now at how the how at the complicated tensions between the two sides they are on full alert at all times just a stone's throw apart in punjab north and south korean soldiers face each other at the most heavily guarded border in the world it's a tense scene that's virtually unchanged since the korea...

Fall of the berlin wall. the beginning of the end of the cold war. west german chancellor helmut kohl in the limelight. behind the scene there was suspense. >> the night after the fall of the wall was the most decisive moment. >> reporter: it was a make or break moment. how would the soviets react? helmut kohl said he and then u.s. president george h.w. bush assured the soviet leader gore was chof that soviet forces in the east wouldn't be attacked. >> gorbachev trusted our work, decided not to send in the tanks. >> reporter: helmut kohl peace cli helped the two germany toss unity, hailed as f...