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

Forty-two years on since the 1979 Soviet invasion and the subsequent waves of violence, displacement from Afghanistan continues in ... a decade ago and the most since World War II. The protection of ...

By Zia ur-Rehman Reporting from Karachi, Pakistan In a refugee settlement on the ... possibly dangerous future. Since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, millions of Afghans have sought ...

She became the iconic image of Afghanistan's plight, a young refugee fleeing the war between the Soviet-backed communists and the American-backed mujahideen. Today the iconic image of Afghanistan ...