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That Britain’s Special Forces almost certainly conducted a campaign of extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan with impunity. And that a military judicial system built to restrain them catastrophically ...

Often called “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War”, the conflict in Afghanistan began at Christmas in 1979 and dragged on for a further nine years, causing the deaths of over 25,000 Soviet ...

In the following years, Islamabad became a key route to ferry weapons to the Afghanistan mujahideen, which was funded by the US during the Soviet-Afghan war and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War.

Asif said, pointing to the US role in arming Afghan groups during the 1980s Soviet-Afghan war. He argued that the US had a hand in creating and supporting 'mujahideen' forces, which later evolved ...