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.

Mr. Gates angrily spoke out after a series of leaks in 2009 about an investigation into President Barack Obama’s plans for the war in Afghanistan, as well as a shooting at Fort Hood that left 13 ...

Millions of Afghans have travelled to Pakistan over the past four decades, fleeing successive conflicts including the Soviet invasion, a civil war ... ties with Afghan Pashtuns. Around 1.3 million ...

"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 ...

Thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have been forcibly repatriated since Pakistani authorities set an April 10 ...

Most of the Afghans in the camp are descendants of refugees who migrated to Pakistan after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Many are in their 30s, meaning they have never lived in ...