Everyone is a refugee of the Afghan war. More than 5 million Afghans have fled their country since Soviet troops invaded ... have ended up back in Pakistani hospitals with their legs blown off.

But for Gul, what was supposed to be a temporary spell as a refugee escaping the Soviet-Afghan war has taken on all the trappings of a permanent existence in neighboring Pakistan. Gul was among ...

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

Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - the Islamist ...

and turned millions of Afghans into refugees. Yet the Soviet Union's withdrawal did not bring peace. Rival warlords vying for power plunged Afghanistan into a civil war until the radical Taliban ...

KYIV -- Jalal Noory, an Afghan refugee in ... adding that "war is part of every Afghan's nature." Noory was born in Afghanistan in the mid 1970s. He still recalls the Soviet invasion of his ...

“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 ...