The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

But for Gul, what was supposed to be a temporary spell as a refugee escaping the Soviet-Afghan war has taken on all the trappings of a permanent existence in neighboring Pakistan. Gul was among ...

The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its ...

Between 560,000 and two million Afghans are killed, six million become refugees. 1989 - Soviet forces leave and Afghanistan collapses into renewed civil war. Some 400,000 Afghans are estimated to ...