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

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago.

Most of the Afghans in the camp are descendants of refugees who migrated to Pakistan after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in ... after being detained in the war-torn country last month.

In December last year, the Afghan Taliban’s acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani ... who fought against the erstwhile Soviet Union in the 1980s. The senior Haqqani later joined ...

breeding a generation of fighters who knew only war and ideology. The Soviet withdrawal in 1989 didn’t end the chaos; it merely shifted it, leaving Afghanistan fractured and Pakistan saddled with a ...

The decision by four states last month and another one this week to withdraw from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, widely known as the Ottawa Treaty, is one of the most significant challenges to ...

After the Soviet withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, there was a civil war. Ultra-conservative Pashtun religious ... given ministerial positions in the new Taliban government: Khalil (refugees minister ...

"We are all members of Afghanistan's young generation of war, migration, and misfortune," she says. After the Soviet invasion when she fled with her family to neighboring Pakistan, she lived and ...

Pakistan's deportation of Afghan migrants is drawing global condemnation, as rights groups warn of grave dangers for ...