Formed in 1945 by the victors of World War II, the main aim of the United Nations was to preserve international peace and security.

A Pakistani crackdown on Afghans has seen some families handed deadlines of hours, or just minutes, to collect whatever they ...

NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia lasted from 24 March to 10 June 1999. The aggression continued after that in the form of a ...

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated ...

The father of two infant daughters and an Afghan refugee who supported American ... old husband and father was rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital, but was unable to be saved.

The Soviet-Afghan War led to the deaths of around three million Afghans, while refugees fled to Pakistan and Iran. As much as 11.5% of Afghanistan’s population was killed during the conflict ...

On this day in 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. China Warns US Over F-16 ...

Panic ensued and 1.6 million refugees fled since then, according to UNHCR. U.S. military and political intervention displacing millions is nothing new. In 2020, Brown University’s Costs of War ... in ...

Mohmandan Ali, 65, an Afghan refugee who has lived in the Nowshera district for nearly four decades, is preparing to return to his home country voluntarily in the second phase of repatriation ...

After the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan consequent to the Soviet invasion in 1979 ... Taliban Movement was treated in Karachi hospitals. Refugees in Pakistan were never restricted to the camps ...

The 1962 war with China ... While not one of the larger refugee groups in the country, a number of Afghans also took shelter in India after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.