Like the refugee crisis that festered during and after the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s—a Cold War contest that displaced and then utterly ignored millions of angry, hopeless people ...

During the Afghan withdrawal, the Taliban drew up lists of our allies to hunt and kill because they had worked with us. A ...

Forty-two years on since the 1979 Soviet invasion and the subsequent waves of violence, displacement from Afghanistan continues in ... a decade ago and the most since World War II. The protection of ...

She became the iconic image of Afghanistan's plight, a young refugee fleeing the war between the Soviet-backed communists and the American-backed mujahideen. Today the iconic image of Afghanistan ...

Even so, I'm inclined to agree with Max Allen (see link below) that Afghan war rugs defy analysis ... transformed into refugees after the Soviet revolution, and erstwhile allies of the US invasion.

The Soviet-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 - ...