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

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 ...

One killed and three others suffered injuries in a suicide attack on Afghan ministry of urban development and housing on ...

First official response from the government in Kabul to President Donald Trump’s pledge to retrieve US arms from the de facto ...

Afghanistan has had a tumultuous recent past ... They came to our house and told him they had orders to kill him because he allowed me to go to school. The Mujahideen had already stopped me from going ...

A blast at Afghanistan's Urban Development and Housing ... suicide attacker wanted to enter the ministry and one of the mujahideen [security forces] shot him and then in the result of the ...

He was amazingly decent, except that he let his National Security Advisor Zbig Brzezinski convince him to covertly aid, in July 1979, the mujahideen fighting against the Afghan government.

Jeff B. Harmon's 1989 documentary,“Warlord of Kayan,” offers an in-depth look at Afghanistan's history through the life of Sayed Jafar Naderi. Thi ...