South African armed forces launched several offensive operations into Angola. Their objective was to push SWAPO units away ...

In one of the Cold War’s lesser-known showdowns, Cuban MiG-23s clashed with South African Mirage F1s in the skies over Angola ...

The country edged toward civil war as three separate groups bid to rule the country. Cuba had been supporting the Movement for the Independence of Angola (M.P.L.A.) since the 1960s. The Marxist ...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel ratified this weekend during an official trip to Luanda his country's support to the Angolan government, it was reported. “The conviction that Cuba will ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, tens of thousands of Cubans fought in Angola alongside Russia in a proxy war against the US and its allies. These days, Russia is Cuba's main creditor. Last year Moscow ...