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 ...

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

“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 ...

Between 560,000 and two million Afghans are killed, six million become refugees. 1989 - Soviet forces leave and Afghanistan collapses into renewed civil war. Some 400,000 Afghans are estimated to ...