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

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He remembered how New Haven-based Integrated Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS) had taken care of everything, from preparing an apartment, to cooking a first Afghan meal, to enrolling his ...

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.

“In Afghanistan ... as refugees [Courtesy of Waheed Arian] Waheed’s calm demeanour belies a difficult past. He was born in 1983 in the Afghan capital Kabul during the Soviet-Afghan War ...