Afghanistan

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in western (70,000) and southern (70,000) Afghanistan because of drought.
76,000 Afghans came back to Afghanistan from Pakistan during 2000. Over 133,600 returned from Iran under a UNHCR-assisted repatriation program. Another 50,000 Afghans returned from Iran without UNHCR assistance, although some were under pressure from the Iranian authorities. The UNCHR didn’t assist those returning from Iran so it is believed some of the refugees returned against their will.
The conflict in Afghanistan began after a communist government came into power in 1978. This caused a mass departure of Afghan refugees into Pakistan and Iran. The problem only grew after the former Soviet Union invaded and occupied Afghanistan in 1979. Early in the 1980s, banished Afghans sent an armed force to the areas under Soviet rule which made Afghanistan into a battleground for the coldwar. The United States and it’s allies provided both military assistance and humanitarian aid to Islamic opposition forces commonly known as mujahedin.
This problem between the Soviets and the mujahedin went on for a long time and stopped only after Moscow agreed to take it’s troops out of Afghanistan. This was in 1988. The only reason Moscow did this was it was under great pressure internally. By 1988 there was no law in Afghanistan. In 1992 the mujahedin beat the communists and that caused most of the remaining refugees to come home. 1.4 million Afghans repatriated that year.
Within the following years many groups of mujahedin began fighting amongst themselves causing many more refuges to flee to neighboring countries and other parts of their own country. In the mid-1990s, the radical Islamic Taliban (Taliban literally means "religious students" or "seekers of truth") faction gained power and took over southern Afghanistan and Kabul. Many groups battled the Taliban in northeastern Afghanistan to try and get some power themselves.
The Taliban was a ...