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438 relations: Abaya, ABC News (Australia), Abdul Ali Mazari, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, Abdul Ghani Baradar, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Abdul Manan Niazi, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Abdul Salam Hanafi, Abul A'la Maududi, Accompaniment, Adhan, Adultery, Afghan afghani, Afghan Armed Forces, Afghan Civil War (1989–1992), Afghan Civil War (1992–1996), Afghan Civil War (1996–2001), Afghan conflict, Afghan Interim Administration, Afghan mujahideen, Afghan National Police, Afghan nationalism, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Freedom Front, Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes, Afghans, Agence France-Presse, Ahmad Massoud, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmed Rashid, Akhtar Abdur Rahman, Akhtar Mansour, Al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir), Al-Qaeda, American English, Amir al-Mu'minin, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Amrullah Saleh, Andrew North (journalist), Aniconism in Islam, Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, Arabic, Arg, Kabul, Ariana Afghan Airlines, Article (grammar), Ashraf Ghani, Asia, ... Expand index (388 more) »
- 1994 establishments in Afghanistan
- Al-Qaeda allied groups
- Anti-Buddhism
- Anti-Christian sentiment in Afghanistan
- Anti-Hindu sentiment
- Anti-ISIL factions
- Anti-Zionism in Asia
- Anti-Zoroastrianism
- Anti-anarchism
- Antisemitism in Asia
- Deobandi organisations
- Far-right politics in Afghanistan
- Government of Afghanistan
- Islamic nationalism
- Jihadist groups in Afghanistan
- Jihadist groups in Pakistan
- Organizations designated as terrorist by Kyrgyzstan
- Organizations designated as terrorist by Russia
- Organizations designated as terrorist by Tajikistan
- Organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates
- Organizations that oppose LGBT rights in Asia
- Pashtun nationalism
- Sexism in Afghanistan
- Sunni Islamist groups
- Theocracies
- Violence against LGBT people in Asia
Abaya
The abaya (colloquially and more commonly, عباية, especially in Literary Arabic: عباءة; plural عبايات, عباءات), sometimes also called an aba, is a simple, loose over-garment, essentially a robe-like dress, worn by some women in the Muslim world including most of the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of the Horn of Africa.
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News, also known as ABC News and Current Affairs and overseas as ABC Australia, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Abdul Ali Mazari
Abdul Ali Mazari (عبدالعلی مزاری; 5 June 194613 March 1995) was a Hazara politician and leader of the Hezbe Wahdat during and following the Soviet–Afghan War, who advocated for a federal system of governance in Afghanistan.
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Abdul Baqi Haqqani
Abdul Baqi Haqqani Bashir Mohammad, or Abdul Baqi Haqqani (born) is an Afghan and senior member of the Taliban.
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Abdul Ghani Baradar
Abdul Ghani Baradar (born 29 September 1963 or 1968; known by the honorific mullah) is an Afghan militant and religious leader who is the acting first deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Salam Hanafi, of the internationally unrecognized post-2021 Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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Abdul Hakim Haqqani
Abdul Hakim Haqqani (born 1967), also known as Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, is an Afghan Islamic scholar and writer who has been the chief justice of Afghanistan since 2021 in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime.
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Abdul Manan Niazi
Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi (died 15 May 2021) was an Afghan politician and military commander.
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Abdul Qahar Balkhi
Abdul Qahar Balkhi is an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan official and the current spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 25 September 2021.
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Abdul Rashid Dostum
Abdul Rashid Dostum (عبدالرشید دوستم; Uzbek Latin: Abdurrashid Do'stum, Uzbek Cyrillic: Абдуррашид Дўстум,; born 25 March 1954) is an Afghan warlord, exiled politician, former Marshal in the Afghan National Army, founder and leader of the political party Junbish-e Milli.
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Abdul Salam Hanafi
Abdul Salam Hanafi (عبدالسلامحنفي,, Uzbek/) is an Afghan Uzbek political and Deobandi-Islamic religious leader who is a senior leader of the Taliban, an acting second deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Kabir, of Afghanistan since 2021, and was a central member of the negotiation team in the Qatar office.
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Abul A'la Maududi
Abul A'la al-Maududi (ابو الاعلی المودودی|translit.
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Accompaniment
Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.
Adhan
The (adhān) is the first Islamic call to prayer, usually recited by a muezzin at five times of the day in a mosque, traditionally from a minaret.
Adultery
Adultery is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds.
Afghan afghani
The afghani (sign: or Af (plural: Afs) code: AFN; افغانۍ; افغانی) is the official currency of Afghanistan since the 1920s.
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Afghan Armed Forces
The Afghan Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Dari: نیروهای مسلح امارت اسلامی افغانستان) also referred to as the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces, is the military of Afghanistan, commanded by the Taliban government from 1997 to 2001 and since August 2021.
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Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
The 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War, also known as the First Afghan Civil War, took place between the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the Soviet–Afghan War on 15 February 1989 until 27 April 1992, ending the day after the proclamation of the Peshawar Accords proclaiming a new interim Afghan government which was supposed to start serving on 28 April 1992.
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Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
The 1992–1996 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Second Afghan Civil War, took place between 28 April 1992—the date a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the Republic of Afghanistan of President Mohammad Najibullah—and the Taliban's occupation of Kabul establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996.
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Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
The 1996–2001 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Third Afghan Civil War, took place between the Taliban's conquest of Kabul and their establishing of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996, and the US and UK invasion of Afghanistan on 7 October 2001: a period that was part of the Afghan Civil War that had started in 1989, and also part of the war (in wider sense) in Afghanistan that had started in 1978.
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Afghan conflict
The Afghan conflict (دافغانستان جنګونه; درگیری افغانستان) refers to the series of events that have kept Afghanistan in a near-continuous state of armed conflict since the 1970s.
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Afghan Interim Administration
The Afghan Interim Administration (AIA), also known as the Afghan Interim Authority, was the first administration of Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime and was the highest authority of the country from 22 December 2001 until 13 July 2002.
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Afghan mujahideen
The Afghan mujahideen (translit; translit) were Islamist resistance groups that fought against the Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War.
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Afghan National Police
The Afghan National Police (ANP; د افغانستان ملي پولیس; پلیس ملی افغانستان), also known as the Afghan Police, is the national police force of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, serving as a single law enforcement agency all across the country.
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Afghan nationalism
Afghan nationalism, or pan-Afghanism, is the belief or assertion that the Afghan people are a nation.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Taliban and Afghanistan are Theocracies.
Afghanistan Freedom Front
The Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) is an anti-Taliban militant group operating in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes
A series of occasional armed skirmishes and firefights have occurred along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border between the Afghan Armed Forces and the Pakistan Armed Forces since 1949.
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Afghans
Afghans (افغانها) also Afghanistanis (افغانستانیها), (افغانان) or Afghan people are nationals or citizens of Afghanistan, or people with ancestry from there.
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Ahmad Massoud
Ahmad Massoud (Pashto/,; born July 10, 1989) is an Afghan politician who is the founder and leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.
Ahmad Shah Massoud
Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari:,; September 2, 1953September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.
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Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid (Urdu:; born 1948 in Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
Akhtar Abdur Rahman
Akhtar Abdur Rahman (11 June 192417 August 1988), was a Pakistan Army general who served as the 5th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1987 until his death in 1988.
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Akhtar Mansour
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour (1960s21 May 2016) was the second supreme leader of the Taliban.
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Al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir)
Al-Badr (lit) is an Islamist militant group operating in the Kashmir region. Taliban and al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir) are jihadist groups in Pakistan.
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Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate. Taliban and al-Qaeda are anti-Hindu sentiment, anti-Israeli sentiment, Islam-related controversies, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada, organizations designated as terrorist by Kyrgyzstan, organizations designated as terrorist by Russia, organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates, organizations that oppose LGBT rights in Asia, sunni Islamist groups, Supraorganizations and violence against LGBT people in Asia.
American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Amir al-Mu'minin
(أَمِيْر ٱلْمُؤْمِنِيْن) or Commander of the Faithful is a Muslim title designating the supreme leader of an Islamic community.
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Amir Khan Muttaqi
Amir Khan Muttaqi (born 26 February 1971) is an Afghan Taliban militant and politician serving as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 7 September 2021.
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Amrullah Saleh
Amrullah Saleh (Pashto/امرالله صالح,; born 15 October 1972) is an Afghan politician who served as the first vice president of Afghanistan from February 2020 to August 2021, and acting interior minister from 2018 to 2019.
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Andrew North (journalist)
Andrew North is a journalist and writer.
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Aniconism in Islam
In some forms of Islamic art, aniconism stems in part from the prohibition of idolatry and in part from the belief that the creation of living forms is God's prerogative.
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Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan
Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan (ئەنسارولئیسلامله کوردستاندا),Chalk, Peter, Encyclopedia of Terrorism Volume 1, 2012, ABC-CLIO simply called Ansar al-Islam (ئەنسارولئیسلام), is a Kurdish Islamist militant and separatist group. Taliban and Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan are al-Qaeda allied groups, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada and organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates.
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Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind
Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (أنصار غزوة الهند|lit. Taliban and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind are al-Qaeda allied groups and anti-Hindu sentiment.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Arg, Kabul
The Arg (ارګ) is the presidential palace of Afghanistan, located in Kabul.
Ariana Afghan Airlines
Ariana Afghan Airlines Co.
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Article (grammar)
In grammar, an article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases.
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Ashraf Ghani
Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan former politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014 until August 2021, when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Assassination
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atharism
Atharism (translit) is a school of theology in Sunni Islam which developed from circles of the, a group that rejected rationalistic theology in favor of strict textualism in interpretation the Quran and the hadith.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.
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Bacha bazi
Bacha bāzī (lit) is a practice in which men (sometimes called bacha baz) buy and keep adolescent boys (sometimes called dancing boys) for entertainment and sex.
Badakhshan Province
Badakhshan Province (Pashto/Dari: بدخشان) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country.
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Balkhab uprising
The Balkhab uprising was a Hazara rebellion in Balkhab district, Sar-e Pol province, Afghanistan against the Taliban.
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Balochistan, Pakistan
Balochistan (بلۏچستان; بلوچستان) is a province of Pakistan.
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Bamyan
Bamyan (بامیان), also spelled Bamiyan or Bamian, is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan.
Bamyan Province
Bamyan Province, also spelled Bamiyan, Bāmīān or Bāmyān (ولایت بامیان), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan with the city of Bamyan as its center, located in central parts of Afghanistan.
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Battle of Kabul (1992–1996)
The Battle of Kabul was a series of intermittent battles and sieges over the city of Kabul during the period of 1992–1996.
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Bay'ah
Bayʿah (بَيْعَة, "Pledge of allegiance"), in Islamic terminology, is an oath of allegiance to a leader.
BBC Online
BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
Bismillah Khan Mohammadi
Bismillah Khan Mohammadi (born 1961, in Panjshir Province), or Bismillah Khan, is an Afghan politician who served as the defense minister of Afghanistan from 2012 to 2015 and for two months in 2021.
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Buddhas of Bamiyan
The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two possibly 6th-century monumental Buddhist statues in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan. Taliban and Buddhas of Bamiyan are anti-Buddhism.
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Burhanuddin Rabbani
Burhānuddīn Rabbānī (برهانالدین ربانی; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011) was an Afghan politician and teacher who served as president of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996, and again from November to December 2001 (in exile from 1996 to 2001).
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Burqa
A burqa or a burka (برقع) is an enveloping outer garment worn by some Muslim women which fully covers the body and the face. Taliban and burqa are Islam-related controversies.
Caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.
Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Capital punishment in Islam
Capital punishment in Islam is traditionally regulated by the Islamic law (sharīʿa), which derived from the Quran, ''ḥadīth'' literature, and sunnah (accounts of the sayings and living habits attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad during his lifetime).
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Caucasian Front (militant group)
The Caucasian Front (Кавказский фронт), also known as Caucasus Front or the Caucasian Mujahideen, established in May 2005 as an Islamic structural unit of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria's armed forces by the decree of the fourth president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Abdul-Halim Sadulayev.
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Caucasus Emirate
The Caucasus Emirate (Imarat Kavkaz, IK; Kavkazskiy emirat), also known as the Caucasian Emirate, Emirate of Caucasus, or Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, was a jihadist organisation active in rebel-held parts of Syria and previously in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Taliban and Caucasus Emirate are al-Qaeda allied groups, Islamic nationalism, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada, organizations designated as terrorist by Russia and organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates.
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CBC News
CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
Child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse (CSA), also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.
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Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution was a social and political revolution that culminated in the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christianity in Afghanistan
Christians have historically comprised a small community in Afghanistan.
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Civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
During the War in Afghanistan, according to the Costs of War Project the war killed 176,000 people in Afghanistan: 46,319 civilians, 69,095 military and police and at least 52,893 opposition fighters.
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Clarion Project
The Clarion Project (formerly Clarion Fund Inc.) is an American nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that was founded in 2006.
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Clergy
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions.
Cloak of Muhammad
The Cloak of Muhammad is a relic hidden inside Khirqa Sharif in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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College
A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one.
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants".
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Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization, based in New York City, with correspondents around the world.
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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress.
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Crisis States Research Centre
The Crisis States Research Centre or 'Crisis States' was based within the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN, now Department of International Development) of the London School of Economics.
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Cultural genocide
Cultural genocide or culturicide is a concept described by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, in the same book that coined the term genocide.
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Culture of Afghanistan
The culture of Afghanistan has persisted for centuries and encompasses the cultural diversity of the nation.
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Dabiq (magazine)
Dabiq (دابق) was a Raqqa-based online magazine of the Islamic State, published via the deep web from July 2014 to July 2016 (Ramadan 1435 to Shawwal 1437).
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Daf
Daf (دف), also known as dâyere and riq, is a Middle Eastern (mainly Iranian) frame drum musical instrument, used in popular and classical music in South and Central Asia.
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Dari
Dari (endonym: دری), Dari Persian (فارسی دری,, or), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan.
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Darul Uloom Haqqania
Darul Uloom Haqqania or Jamia Dar al-Ulum Haqqania (Pashto/دار العلومحقانیہ) is an Islamic Seminary (darul uloom or madrasa) in the town of Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwestern Pakistan.
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Daykundi Province
Daykundi (دایکندی), also spelled as Daikundi, Daikondi, or Daykondi, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the central part of the country.
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De jure
In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.
Deobandi jihadism
Deobandi jihadism (Pashto: د ديوبند جهاد) is a militant interpretation of Islam that draws upon the teachings of the Deobandi movement, which originated in the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century. Taliban and Deobandi jihadism are Islam-related controversies.
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Deobandi movement
The Deobandi movement or Deobandism is a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam that adheres to the Hanafi school of law.
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Determiner
Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging to a class of noun modifiers.
Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
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Diaspora
A diaspora is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.
Diplomatic recognition
Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral declarative political act of a state that acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state (may be also a recognized state).
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Dost Mohammad Khan
Emir Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai (Pashto/دوست محمد خان; December 23, 1792 – June 8, 1863), nicknamed the Amir-i Kabir, was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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Dual (grammatical number)
Dual (abbreviated) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural.
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Durand Line
The Durand Line (د ډیورنډ کرښه; ڈیورنڈ لائن; خط دیورند), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia.
Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024.
Education in Afghanistan
Education in Afghanistan includes K–12 and higher education, which is under the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education.
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Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
Embedded journalism
Embedded journalism refers to war correspondents being attached to military units involved in armed conflicts.
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Escape from Taliban
Escape from Taliban is a 2003 Indian film directed by Ujjwal Chatterjee.
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Ethnic cleansing
Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous.
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European Union Agency for Asylum
The European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) is an agency created by European Union Regulation 439/2010 within the area of freedom, security and justice framework to increase the cooperation of EU member states on asylum, improve the implementation of the Common European Asylum System, and support member states under pressure.
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European Union Special Representative
The European Union Special Representatives (EUSR) are emissaries of the European Union with specific tasks abroad.
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Extortion
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion.
Fall of Kabul (2021)
On 15 August 2021, Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul was captured by the Taliban after a major insurgent offensive that began in May 2021.
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FDD's Long War Journal
FDD's Long War Journal (LWJ) is an American news website, also described as a blog, which reports on the War on terror.
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Fidai Mahaz
The Sacrifice Front, more commonly known as Fidai Mahaz, was a Taliban splinter group and faction in the War in Afghanistan.
Fiqh
Fiqh (فقه) is Islamic jurisprudence.
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Flag of Afghanistan
The national flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (د افغانستان بیرغ; پرچمافغانستان), adopted on 15 August 2021 following the Taliban's victory in the 2001–2021 war, features a white field with a black Shahada inscribed.
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Flagellation
Flagellation (Latin, 'whip'), flogging or whipping is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, the knout, etc.
Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
Foreign policy
Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities.
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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.
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Foreign Secretary
The secretary of state for foreign, Commonwealth and development affairs, also known as the foreign secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
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Frame drum
A frame drum is a drum that has a drumhead width greater than its depth.
France 24
France 24 (vingt-quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris.
Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that is characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguishing one's ingroup and outgroup, which leads to an emphasis on some conception of "purity", and a desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed.
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Gardez
Gardez (ګردېز / گردیز; Gardēz, meaning "mountain fortress" in Middle Persian) is the capital of the Paktia Province of Afghanistan.
Gayle Williams
Gayle Williams (18 December 1973 – 20 October 2008) was an aid worker for SERVE Afghanistan of joint British and South African nationality.
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General Intelligence Presidency
The General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) ((ر.ا.ع) رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة), also known as the General Intelligence Directorate (GID), is the primary intelligence agency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Ghazi Stadium
Ghazi Stadium (ورزشگاه غازى; غازي لوبغالی) is a multi-purpose stadium located southeast of the Shahr-e Naw neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, across from Chaman-e-Hozori and Eidgah Mosque.
Ghilji
The Ghiljī (غلجي,; Xelji) also spelled Khilji, Khalji, or Ghilzai and Ghilzay (غلزی), are one of the largest Pashtun tribes.
Ghost Wars
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, abbreviated as Ghost Wars, is a book written by Steve Coll, published in 2004 by Penguin Press.
Gizab District
Gizab (گیزاب) also spelled as Gezab and Gizu, is a district in the Daykundi Province of Afghanistan.
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Gold Star Families for Peace
Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) is a United States-based organization founded in January 2005 by individuals who lost family members in the Iraq War, and are thus entitled to display a Gold Star.
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Golden Crescent
The Golden Crescent is the name given to one of Asia's two principal areas of illicit opium production (with the other being the Golden Triangle).
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
Governance
Governance is the overall complex system or framework of processes, functions, structures, rules, laws and norms borne out of the relationships, interactions, power dynamics and communication within an organized group of individuals which not only sets the boundaries of acceptable conduct and practices of different actors of the group and controls their decision-making processes through the creation and enforcement of rules and guidelines, but also manages, allocates and mobilizes relevant resources and capacities of different members and sets the overall direction of the group in order to effectively address its specific collective needs, problems and challenges.
Government of Afghanistan
The government of Afghanistan, officially called the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is the central government of Afghanistan, a unitary state.
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Government of Iran
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Nezâm-e Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân), known simply as Nezam (translit), is the ruling state and current political system in Iran, in power since the Iranian Revolution and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. Taliban and Government of Iran are anti-Israeli sentiment.
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Grand Mufti
The Grand Mufti (also called Chief Mufti, State Mufti and Supreme Mufti) is the head of regional muftis, Islamic jurisconsults, of a state.
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp,Centro de detención de la bahía de Guantánamo is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ ''GIT-moh'') on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
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Gul Agha Sherzai
Gul Agha Sherzai (born 1954), also known as Mohammad Shafiq, is a politician and former warlord in Afghanistan.
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, and former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker. Taliban and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar are organizations designated as terrorist by Canada.
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Hamas
Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (lit), is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant resistance movement governing parts of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007. Taliban and Hamas are anti-Israeli sentiment, Islamic nationalism, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada and sunni Islamist groups.
Hanafi school
The Hanafi school or Hanafism (translit) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.
Handicraft
A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers, clay, etc.
Haqqani network
The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government in the 21st century. Taliban and Haqqani network are jihadist groups in Afghanistan, jihadist groups in Pakistan, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada and organizations that oppose LGBT rights in Asia.
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Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (حرکت المجاہدین|lit. Taliban and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen are al-Qaeda allied groups, jihadist groups in Pakistan and organizations designated as terrorist by Canada.
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Hasan Akhund
Mohammad Hasan Akhund (born or) is an Afghan mullah, politician and Taliban leader who is currently the acting prime minister of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime since 7 September 2021.
Hassan Hassan
Hassan Hassan (born 1982) is an American author and journalist of Syrian origin.
Hazarajat
Hazarajat (Hazārajāt), also known as Hazaristan (Hazāristān) is a mostly mountainous region in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Kuh-e Baba mountains in the western extremities of the Hindu Kush.
Hazaras
The Hazaras (Hazāra; Āzrə) are an ethnic group and a principal component of the population of Afghanistan.
Helmand Province
Helmand (Pashto/Dari), also known as Hillmand, in ancient times, as Hermand and Hethumand, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, in the south of the country.
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Herat
Herāt (Pashto, هرات) is an oasis city and the third-largest city in Afghanistan.
Herding
Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group (herd), maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those.
Heroin
Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver somniferum plant; it is mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.
Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
The Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (حزب اسلامی گلبدین; abbreviated HIG), also referred to as Hezb-e-Islami or Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), is an Afghan political party and paramilitary organization, originally founded in 1976 as Hezb-e-Islami and led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Taliban and Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin are organizations designated as terrorist by Canada.
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Hezb-i Islami Khalis
Hezb-e Islami Khalis (حزب اسلامی خالص) is an Afghan political ex-Mujahideen movement under Mohammad Yunus Khalis, who separated from Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami and formed his own resistance group in 1979.
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Hezbe Wahdat
Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (حزب وحدت اسلامی افغانستان, "the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan"), shortened to Hezbe Wahdat (حزب وحدت, "the Unity Party"), is an Afghan political party founded in 1989.
Hibatullah Akhundzada
Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, also spelled Haibatullah Akhunzada, is an Afghan cleric who is the supreme leader of Afghanistan in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime. Taliban and Hibatullah Akhundzada are Totalitarianism.
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High Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
High Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (HCIEA) was a breakaway Taliban faction active in Afghanistan since 2015. Taliban and High Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan are jihadist groups in Afghanistan and sunni Islamist groups.
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Higher education in Afghanistan
Higher education in Afghanistan, including post-secondary education, known locally as third-level or tertiary education, falls under the Ministry of Higher Education which establishes government policies to reform higher education at Afghan universities.
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Hijab
In modern usage, hijab (translit) generally refers to various head coverings conventionally worn by many Muslim women.
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
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Hindi cinema
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.
Hinduism in Afghanistan
Hinduism in Afghanistan is practiced by a tiny minority of Afghans, about 30-40 individuals as of 2021, who live mostly in the cities of Kabul and Jalalabad.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
History of Afghanistan
The history of Afghanistan, preceding the establishment of the Emirate of Afghanistan in 1823 is shared with that of neighbouring Iran, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
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History of Islam
The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization.
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History of the Jews in Afghanistan
The history of the Jews in Afghanistan goes back at least 2,500 years.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir
Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT; lit) is an international pan-Islamist and Islamic fundamentalist political organization whose stated aim is the re-establishment of the Islamic caliphate to unite the Muslim community (called ummah) and implement sharia globally. Taliban and Hizb ut-Tahrir are anti-Christian sentiment in Afghanistan and organizations designated as terrorist by Russia.
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House arrest
In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to their residence.
Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
Human rights in Afghanistan
Human rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted, especially since Taliban's takeover of Kabul in August 2021.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need.
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Illegal drug trade
The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs.
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Imam Bukhari Jamaat
The Imam Bukhari Jamaat (Imom Buxoriy Katibasi, also Katibat Imam al Bukhari) is an Islamist Salafi group fighting in the Syrian Civil War and the War in Afghanistan, composed of primarily Uzbeks, and expressing loyalty to the Taliban movement. Taliban and Imam Bukhari Jamaat are organizations designated as terrorist by Kyrgyzstan.
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Immunization
Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an infectious agent (known as the immunogen).
Improvised explosive device
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.
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Indian English
Indian English (IE) is a group of English dialects spoken in the Republic of India and among the Indian diaspora.
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Institute of technology
An institute of technology (also referred to as: technological university, technical university, university of technology, technological educational institute, technical college, polytechnic university, polytechnic school, or just polytechnic) is an institution of tertiary education (such as a university or college) that specializes in engineering, technology, applied science, and natural sciences.
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Insurgency
An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority.
Inter-Services Intelligence
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI; بین الخدماتی استخبارات|bayn al-khidmati estekhbarat) is the largest and best-known component of the Pakistani intelligence community.
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International Journal of Drug Policy
The International Journal of Drug Policy is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering drug policy with respect to both illegal and legal drugs.
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International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization.
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International Security Assistance Force
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was a multinational military mission in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.
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Intimate parts in Islam
The intimate parts (عورة, ستر) of the human body must, according to Islam, be covered by clothing.
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Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution (انقلاب ایران), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (label), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the present-day Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions. Taliban and Iranian Revolution are Islamic nationalism.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islamic and National Revolution Movement of Afghanistan
The Islamic Revolution Movement (Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami, حرکت انقلاب اسلامی افغانستان) is a traditionalist Islamist political party.
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Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan
The Islamic Dawah Organization of Afghanistan (د اسلامي دعوت تنظيمافغانستان, تنظیمدعوت اسلامی افغانستان, Tanzim-e Da'wat-e Islami-ye Afghanistan) is a political party in Afghanistan led by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (د افغانستان اسلامي امارت), also referred to as the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, was a totalitarian Islamic state led by the Taliban that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
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Islamic fundamentalism
Islamic fundamentalism has been defined as a revivalist and reform movement of Muslims who aim to return to the founding scriptures of Islam. Taliban and Islamic fundamentalism are Islam-related controversies.
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Islamic Jihad Union
The Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) is a militant Islamist organization founded in 2002 as a splinter group of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). Taliban and Islamic Jihad Union are al-Qaeda allied groups.
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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU; Oʻzbekiston islomiy harakati; Исламское движение Узбекистана) was a militant Islamist group formed in 1998 by Islamic ideologue Tahir Yuldashev and former Soviet paratrooper Juma Namangani; both ethnic Uzbeks from the Fergana Valley. Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan are al-Qaeda allied groups, jihadist groups in Afghanistan, jihadist groups in Pakistan, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada, organizations designated as terrorist by Russia and organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates.
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was a presidential republic in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2021.
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Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state. Taliban and Islamic State are anti-Hindu sentiment, anti-Israeli sentiment, Islam-related controversies, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada, organizations designated as terrorist by Kyrgyzstan, organizations designated as terrorist by Russia, organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates and violence against LGBT people in Asia.
Islamic State – Khorasan Province
The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K, IS–K, IS–KP) is a regional branch of the Salafi jihadist group Islamic State (IS) active in South-Central Asia, primarily Afghanistan and Pakistan. Taliban and Islamic State – Khorasan Province are anti-Israeli sentiment, jihadist groups in Afghanistan, jihadist groups in Pakistan and organizations designated as terrorist by Canada.
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Islamic State of Afghanistan
The Islamic State of Afghanistan was established by the Peshawar Accords of 26 April 1992.
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Islamic State–Taliban conflict
The Islamic State–Taliban conflict is an ongoing insurgency by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-KP) against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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Islamism
Islamism (also often called political Islam) refers to a broad set of religious and political ideological movements. Taliban and Islamism are anti-Israeli sentiment and Islam-related controversies.
Ismail Khan
Mohammad Ismail Khan (Dari/Pashto: محمد اسماعیل خان) (born 1946) is an Afghan former politician who served as Minister of Energy and Water from 2005 to 2013 and before that served as the governor of Herat Province.
Isolationism
Isolationism is a term used to refer to a political philosophy advocating a foreign policy that opposes involvement in the political affairs, and especially the wars, of other countries.
Istalif
Istālif (Pashto: استالف) is a village northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, situated at an elevation of in the Shomali Plains, west of Kalakan and south-west of Bagram.
Jaish-e-Mohammed
Jaish-e-Mohammed (جيشِ محمدؐ,, abbreviated as JeM) is a Pakistan-based: "The JEM is a Pakistan-based, militant Islamic group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in March 2000." Deobandi: "Deobandis like Masood Azhar, a graduate of Jamia Binouria who later set up a jihadist outfit named Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) in 2000, reportedly at the behest of Pakistan's military establishment." Jihadist terrorist group active in Kashmir. Taliban and Jaish-e-Mohammed are al-Qaeda allied groups, Deobandi organisations, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada, organizations designated as terrorist by Russia and organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates.
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Jalaluddin Haqqani
Jalaluddin Haqqani (Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī) (1939 – 3 September 2018) was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group who fought in guerilla warfare against US-led NATO forces and the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan government that they supported.
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Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, abbreviated as JTJ or Jama'at, was a Salafi jihadist militant group. Taliban and Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad are al-Qaeda allied groups, anti-Israeli sentiment, organizations designated as terrorist by Kyrgyzstan, organizations designated as terrorist by Russia and sunni Islamist groups.
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Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah
Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah (Society for Dawah to the Quran and Sunnah), abbreviated as JDQS, also known as The Salafi Group, was a militant Islamist organisation operating in eastern Afghanistan. Taliban and Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah are jihadist groups in Afghanistan.
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Jamaat Ansarullah
Jamaat Ansarullah or Tajikistan Taliban (Ҷамоати Ансоруллоҳ, جماعت انصارالله), is a Tajik Islamist militant movement currently based out of Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Taliban and Jamaat Ansarullah are al-Qaeda allied groups, Deobandi organisations and organizations designated as terrorist by Tajikistan.
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Jamaat-e-Islami
Jamaat-e-Islami (جماعتِ اسلامی) is an Islamist fundamentalist movement founded in 1941 in British India by the Islamist author, theorist, and socio-political philosopher, Syed Abul Ala Maududi, who was inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood. Taliban and Jamaat-e-Islami are organizations designated as terrorist by Russia.
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Jamestown Foundation
The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C.-based conservative defense policy think tank.
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Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia
Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia (جامعہ علومِ اسلامیہ, Jāmiā Ulūm-i Islāmīyā / جامعۃ العلومالاسلامیہ, Jāmi‘at-ul-‘Ulūm-ul-Islāmīyah) is an Islamic University in Banoori Town, Karachi, Pakistan.
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Jamiat-e Islami
Jamayat-E-Islami (also rendered as Jamiat-e-Islami and Jamiati Islami; lit), sometimes shortened to Jamiat, is a predominantly Tajik political party and former paramilitary organisation in Afghanistan. Taliban and Jamiat-e Islami are organizations designated as terrorist by Russia.
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Jirga
A jirga (جرګه, jərga) is an assembly of leaders that makes decisions by consensus according to Pashtunwali, the Pashtun social code. Taliban and jirga are government of Afghanistan.
John Walker Lindh
John Philip Walker Lindh (born February 9, 1981) is an American Taliban member who was captured by United States forces as an enemy combatant during the United States' invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001.
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Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15, 1957) is an American biographer, author, investigative reporter, war correspondent, and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from war zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Palestine, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East as well as during Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts with K38 Water Safety as documented in the New Yorker article Leaving Desire.
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Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre (born 25 August 1960) is a Norwegian politician who has served as the 36th and current Prime Minister of Norway since 2021 and has been Leader of the Labour Party since 2014.
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Kabul
Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.
Kabul Express
Kabul Express is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language adventure thriller film written and directed by documentary film maker Kabir Khan (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films was released on 15 December 2006.
Kabul University
Kabul University (KU; دکابل پوهنتون/پوهنتون کابل) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan.
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Kafir
Kafir (kāfir; كَافِرُون, كُفَّار, or كَفَرَة; كَافِرَة; كَافِرَات or كَوَافِر) is an Arabic term in Islam which refers to a person who disbelieves the God in Islam, denies his authority, rejects the tenets of Islam, or simply is not a Muslim—one who does not believe in the guidance of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Kai Eide
Kai Aage Eide (born 28 February 1949 in Sarpsborg) is a Norwegian diplomat and writer.
Kandahar
Kandahar is a city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of.
Kandahar Province
Kandahār (کندهار; Kandahār, قندهار; Qandahār) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country, sharing a border with Pakistan, to the south.
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Karachi
Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.
Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad is an Uzbek/Kyrgyz jihadist militant organization based in Syria.
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Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini (Persian/Pashto; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician.
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Khan (title)
Khan is a historic Mongolic and Turkic title originating among nomadic tribes in the Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe to refer to a king.
Kharijites
The Kharijites (translit, singular) were an Islamic sect which emerged during the First Fitna (656–661).
Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.
Kinship
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
Kite
A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces.
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Kunar Province
Kunar (Pashto:; Dari) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country.
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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ; لشکر جھنگوی, Army of Jhangvi), is a Deobandi supremacist, terrorist and militant organisation based in Afghanistan. Taliban and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are Deobandi organisations, jihadist groups in Afghanistan, jihadist groups in Pakistan and organizations designated as terrorist by Canada.
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Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT; لشکرِ طیبہ; literally Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure and alternatively spelled as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar-i-Tayyeba) is a terrorist group formed in Pakistan, and a militant and Islamist Salafi jihadist organisation. Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba are al-Qaeda allied groups, jihadist groups in Afghanistan, jihadist groups in Pakistan, organizations designated as terrorist by Canada, organizations designated as terrorist by Russia and Supraorganizations.
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Leadership Council of Afghanistan
The Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, also translated as the Supreme Council (also referred to as the Inner Shura), is an advisory council to the Supreme Leader of Afghanistan.
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Letter of credence
A letter of credence (Lettre de créance) is a formal diplomatic letter that designates a diplomat as ambassador to another sovereign state.
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Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
List of Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay
According to the United States Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006.
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List of defense contractors
A defense contractor is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a military or intelligence department of a government.
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Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
Lone Survivor
Lone Survivor is a 2013 American biographical war film based on the 2007 nonfiction book of the same name by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Loya Paktia
Lōya Paktiā (لويه پکتيا; lit. Greater Paktia) is a historical and cultural region of Afghanistan, comprising the modern Afghan provinces of Khost, Paktia, and Paktika, as well as parts of Logar, Andrew Krepinevich, Random House Digital, Inc., 2010,,...
Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.
Maisir
In Islam, gambling (translit or قمار qimâr) is forbidden (script).
Massacre
A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.
Mazar-i-Sharif
Mazar-i-Sharīf (Dari and مزار شریف), also known as Mazar-e Sharīf or simply Mazar, is the fourth-largest city in Afghanistan by population, with an estimated 500,207 residents in 2021.
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Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Middle East Institute
The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank and cultural centre in Washington, D.C., founded in 1946.
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Militia
A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.
Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Afghanistan)
The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (د امربالمعروف، نهی عن المنکر او شکایتونو اورېدلو وزارت) is the state agency in charge of implementing Islamic law in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as defined by the Taliban. Taliban and Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Afghanistan) are Sexism in Afghanistan.
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Ministry of Education (Afghanistan)
The Afghan Ministry of Education (وزارت معارف افغانستان)(د پوهني وزارت افغانستان) is responsible for policy formulation, the organization, and supervision of education in Afghanistan.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Afghanistan)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (MoFA) (وزارت خارجه افغانستان, د افغانستان د بهرنیو چارو وزارت) is the cabinet ministry responsible for managing the foreign relations of Afghanistan.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norway)
The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Norwegian Det kongelige utenriksdepartement or Utenriksdepartementet; Det kongelege utanriksdepartementet or Utanriksdepartementet; UD) is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (United Arab Emirates)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) (وزارة الخارجية) is a government ministry in the United Arab Emirates responsible for overseeing the country's diplomatic relations as well as its foreign policy.
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Ministry of Higher Education (Afghanistan)
The Afghan Ministry of Higher Education (وزارت تحصیلات عالی, د افغانستان د لوړو زده کړو وزارت) is the Government ministry that is in charge of regulating, expanding, and developing Afghanistan's institutions of higher education.
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Ministry of Women's Affairs (Afghanistan)
Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA) was a ministry in the Afghan government which was established in late 2001 by the Afghan Interim Administration.
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Mohammad Najibullah
Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (Pashto/محمد نجیبالله احمدزی,; 6 August 1947 – 27 September 1996), commonly known as Dr.
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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
Movie theater
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies, motion pictures or "flicks") for public entertainment.
Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (12 August 192417 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer who served as the sixth president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death.
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Mullah
Mullah is an honorific title for Muslim clergy and mosque leaders.
Mullah Omar
Mullah Muhammad Omar (196023 April 2013) was an Afghan mujahideen commander, revolutionary, and the cleric who founded the Taliban. Taliban and Mullah Omar are anti-intellectualism.
Mullah Yaqoob
Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid (Pashto/,,; born 1990) is an Afghan militant commander and cleric who is the second deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acting defense minister in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime since 2021.
Music of Afghanistan
The music of Afghanistan comprises many varieties of classical music, folk music, and modern popular music.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Nangarhar Province
Nangarhār (Pashto:; Dari), also called Nangrahar or Ningrahar, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country and bordering Logar, Kabul, Laghman and Kunar provinces as well as having an international border with Pakistan.
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Narcotic
The term narcotic (from ancient Greek ναρκῶ narkō, "I make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties.
Narendra Singh Khalsa
Narendra Singh Khalsa is a Sikh Afghan politician.
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National Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan
National Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan (حزب وحدت ملی اسلامی افغانستان) is a political party in Afghanistan led by Ustad Muhammad Akbari.
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National Museum of Afghanistan
The National Museum of Afghanistan (موزیمملی افغانستان, Mūzīyam-e mellī-ye Afghānestān; د افغانستان ملی موزیم, Də Afghānistān Millī Mūzīyəm) is a two-story building located across the street from the Darul Aman Palace in the Darulaman area of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), also known as the Second Resistance, is a military alliance of former Northern Alliance members and other anti-Taliban fighters loyal to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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National Review
National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American. Taliban and NATO are Supraorganizations.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
New Year's Day
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Nigel Casey
Nigel Philip Casey (born 29 May 1969) is a British diplomat, who has been His Majesty's Ambassador to the Russian Federation since November 2023.
North Waziristan District
North Waziristan District (شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ضلع شمالی وزیرستان) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.
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Northern Alliance
The Northern Alliance (ائتلاف شمال E'tilāf Šumāl or اتحاد شمال Ettehād Šumāl), officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان Jabha-ye Muttahid-e Islāmī-ye Millī barāye Najāt-e Afğānistān), was a military alliance of groups that operated between early 1992 and 2001 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Nowruz
Nowruz or Navroz (نوروز) is the Iranian New Year or Persian New Year.
Nuristan Province
Nuristan, also spelled as Nurestan or Nooristan (Pashto:; Kamkata-vari: Nuriston), is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country.
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Opium production in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has long had a history of opium poppy cultivation and harvest.
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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. Taliban and Osama bin Laden are Antisemitism in Asia.
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Oslo
Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pajhwok Afghan News
Pajhwok Afghan News (پژواک خبري اژانس) (آژانس خبرى پژواک) is Afghanistan's largest independent news agency with its headquarters in Kabul.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Pakistani English
Pakistani English (also known as Paklish or Pinglish) is the group of English language varieties spoken and written in Pakistan.
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Pakistani Taliban
The Pakistani Taliban, formally called the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP), is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan–Pakistani border. Taliban and Pakistani Taliban are Islam-related controversies, jihadist groups in Afghanistan, jihadist groups in Pakistan and organizations designated as terrorist by Canada.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.
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Pashtun nationalism
Pashtun nationalism (پښتون ملتپالنه) is an ideology that claims that the Pashtuns form a distinct nation and that they should always be united to preserve their culture and homeland.
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Pashtuns
Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.
Pashtunwali
Pashtunwali (پښتونوالی), also known as Pakhtunwali and Afghaniyat, is the traditional lifestyle or a code of honour and tribal code of the Pashtun people, from Afghanistan and Pakistan, by which they live.
PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
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Pederasty
Pederasty or paederasty is a sexual relationship between an adult man and a boy.
Pedophilia
Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
Penguin Group
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
Permanent representative
A permanent representative is a diplomat who is the head of a country's diplomatic mission to an international organisation.
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Peshawar
Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.
Peshawar Accord
On 24 April 1992, the Peshawar Accord was announced by several but not all Afghan mujahideen parties: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e Islami, had since March 1992 opposed these attempts at a coalition government.
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Polio vaccine
Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio).
Politics, Religion & Ideology
Politics, Religion & Ideology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the politics of illiberal ideologies, including the impact of religious radicalism.
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Poppy
A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae.
Primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
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Proselytism
Proselytism is the policy of attempting to convert people's religious or political beliefs.
Provinces of Afghanistan
Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces (ولايت, wilåyat).
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Public execution
A public execution is a form of capital punishment which "members of the general public may voluntarily attend." This definition excludes the presence of only a small number of witnesses called upon to assure executive accountability.
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Puli Khumri
Puli Khumrī (پل خمری), also spelled Pul-i-Khumri or Pol-e Khomri, is a city in northern Afghanistan.
Purdah
Pardah or purdah (from Hindi-Urdu پردہ, पर्दा, meaning "curtain") is a religious and social practice of gender partition prevalent among some Muslim and Hindu communities.
Qarabaghi (Hazara tribe)
Qarabaghi, Qara Baghi or Karabagh (قرهباغی) is a Hazara tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan that originates from the Qarabagh district of Ghazni Province in Afghanistan.
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Qosh Tepa Canal
The Qosh Tepa Canal, also called the Qush Tepa Canal, (د قوشتپې کنال; کانال قوش تپه; Qoʻshtepa kanali) is a canal being built in northern Afghanistan to divert water from the Amu Darya.
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Quetta
Quetta (کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.
Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
Ransom
Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or the sum of money involved in such a practice.
Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
The Taliban has ruled Afghanistan as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since taking control by force in 2021, overthrowing the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Recreation
Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.
Refugee Review Tribunal
The Refugee Review Tribunal was an Australian administrative law tribunal established in 1993.
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Refugee Studies Centre
The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) was established in 1982, as part of the University of Oxford's Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), in order to promote the understanding of the causes and consequences of forced migration and to improve the lives of some of the world's most marginalised people.
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Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing low-level guerrilla war between the National Resistance Front and allied groups which fight under the banner of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on one side, and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the state controlled by the Taliban) on the other side.
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ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.
Resolute Support Mission
Resolute Support Mission (RSM) or Operation Resolute Support was a NATO-led multinational mission in Afghanistan.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Richard Kemp
Colonel Richard Justin Kemp (born 14 April 1959) is a retired British Army officer who served from 1977 to 2006.
Sakhi Shrine
Sakhi Shah-e Mardan Shrine or Ziyarat-e Sakhi (Pashto/زیارت سخی), is a shrine and mosque located in the Karte Sakhi area of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Salafi movement
The Salafi movement or Salafism is a revival movement within Sunni Islam, which was formed as a socio-religious movement during the late 19th century and has remained influential in the Islamic world for over a century.
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Salah
Salah is the principal form of worship in Islam.
Satellite dish
A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive or transmit information by radio waves to or from a communication satellite.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (9 October 190629 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Scorched earth
A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.
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Secondary education
Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale.
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SERVE Afghanistan
Serve Afghanistan is a charity registered in the UK which works in Afghanistan carrying out community development, education and training projects, particularly for Afghans with disabilities.
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Sexual slavery
Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in sexual activities.
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Seyyed Hazara
Sayyed (the word Sayyed also spelt Sayed, Sayyid, Seyyed, Syed, Dari) is one of the clerical and religious in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
Shawl
A shawl (from شال shāl) is a simple item of clothing, loosely worn over the shoulders, upper body and arms, and sometimes also over the head.
Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai
Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai (born 1963) is a senior member of the Afghan Taliban and the country's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime since 7 September 2021.
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Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Shomali Plain
The Shomali Plain, also called the Shomali Valley, is a plateau just north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (صبغت الله مجددي; صبغتالله مجددی; 27 September 1926 – 11 February 2019) was an Afghan politician, who served as Acting President after the fall of Mohammad Najibullah's government in April 1992.
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Sify
Sify Technologies Limited (formerly Satyam Infoway) is an Indian information and communications technology (ICT) company providing telecom services, data center services, cloud & managed services, transformation integration services, and application integration services.
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Sikhism in Afghanistan
Sikhism in Afghanistan in the contemporary era is limited to small populations, primarily in major cities, with the largest numbers of Afghan Sikhs living in Jalalabad, Ghazni, Kabul, and to a lesser extent in Kandahar and Khost.
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Sikhs
Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
Sipah-e-Sahaba
The Sipah-e-Sahaba (SS), also known as the Millat-e-Islamiyya (MI), is a Sunni Islamist banned Deobandi organisation in Pakistan. Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba are Deobandi organisations.
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Sirajuddin Haqqani
Sirajuddin Haqqani (Sirāj al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī,; aliases Khalifa, and, Siraj Haqqani. born December 5, 1979) is an Afghan warlord and Specially Designated Global Terrorist who is the first deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acting interior minister in the internationally unrecognized post-2021 Taliban regime.
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Soviet Central Asia
Soviet Central Asia (Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.
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Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
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Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game.
State (polity)
A state is a political entity that regulates society and the population within a territory.
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN), formerly The ASEN Bulletin, is a scholarly interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on ethnicity and nationalism.
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Suhail Shaheen
Muhammad Suhail Shaheen (Pashto/Dari) is a Taliban member who is currently the head of the Political Office in Doha.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Supreme Leader of Afghanistan
The Supreme Leader of Afghanistan (Də Afġānistān Damshīr, Rahbar-e Afghānistān), officially the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and also styled by his religious title (Arabic), is the absolute ruler, head of state, and national religious leader of Afghanistan, as well as the leader of the Taliban.
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Sushmita Banerjee
Sushmita Banerjee, also known as Sushmita Bandhopadhyay and Sayeda Kamala (1963/1964 – 4/5 September 2013), was a writer and activist from India.
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Tajikistani Civil War
The Tajikistani Civil War, also known as the Tajik Civil War, began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997.
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Tajiks
Tajiks (Tājīk, Tājek; Tojik) are a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group native to Central Asia, living primarily in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Takfir
Takfir (translit) is an Arabic and Islamic term which denotes excommunication from Islam of one Muslim by another, i.e. accusing another Muslim to be an apostate.
Taliban insurgency
The Taliban insurgency began after the group's fall from power during the 2001 War in Afghanistan.
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Talibe
A talibé (also spelled talibe, plural talibés; seeker, 'student'; pl. طلاب) is a boy, usually from Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Chad, Mali or Mauritania, who studies the Quran at a daara (West African equivalent of madrasa).
Tasnim News Agency
Tasnim News Agency (خبرگزاری تسنیم) is a semi-official news agency in Iran associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
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Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM, lit) is an Islamic extremist militant group. Taliban and Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi are jihadist groups in Pakistan.
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Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books in all visually creative categories: art, architecture, design, photography, fashion, film, and the performing arts.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
The Conversation (website)
The Conversation is a network of nonprofit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis.
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The Diplomat
The Diplomat is an international online news magazine covering politics, society, and culture in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Hill (newspaper)
The Hill is an American newspaper and digital media company based in Washington, D.C., that was founded in 1994.
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The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post.
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The Kabul Times Daily
The Kabul Times Daily (روزنامه کابل تایمز) is a state-run English-language newspaper in Afghanistan, initially established on February 27, 1962, as The Kabul Times.
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The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner is the first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.
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The Kite Runner (film)
The Kite Runner is a 2007 American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini.
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The National Interest
The National Interest (TNI) is an American bimonthly international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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TOLOnews
Tolo News (Dari and Pashto: طلوعنیوز), stylized TOLOnews, is an Afghan news channel and website broadcasting from Kabul.
Tora Bora Military Front
The Tora Bora Military Front (Pashto: Tora Bora Nizami Mahaz) is an insurgent group in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Taliban and Tora Bora Military Front are jihadist groups in Afghanistan and jihadist groups in Pakistan.
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Torah scroll
A Torah scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה,, lit. "Book of Torah"; plural: סִפְרֵי תוֹרָה) is a handwritten copy of the Torah, meaning the five books of Moses (the first books of the Hebrew Bible).
Treatment of women by the Taliban
The treatment of women by the Taliban refers to actions and policies by two distinct Taliban regimes in Afghanistan which are either specific or highly commented upon, mostly due to discrimination, since they first took control in 1996.
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Turkistan Islamic Party
The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) is a Uyghur Islamic extremist organization founded in Pakistan by Hasan Mahsum. Taliban and Turkistan Islamic Party are jihadist groups in Afghanistan, jihadist groups in Pakistan, organizations designated as terrorist by Kyrgyzstan, organizations designated as terrorist by Russia and organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates.
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Ulama
In Islam, the ulama (the learned ones; singular ʿālim; feminine singular alimah; plural aalimath), also spelled ulema, are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law.
United Nations Credentials Committee
The United Nations Credentials Committee is a committee of the United Nations General Assembly whose main purpose is to report to the Assembly regarding the credentials of the body's representatives.
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United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations (UN) body established in December 1991 by the General Assembly to strengthen the international response to complex emergencies and natural disasters.
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United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
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United States Department of State list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) is a designation for non-United States-based organizations deemed by the United States secretary of state, in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (INA), to be involved in what US authorities define as terrorist activities.
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United States District Court for the District of Columbia
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.
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United States Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an American federal institution tasked with promoting conflict resolution and prevention worldwide.
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United States invasion of Afghanistan
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, the United States declared the war on terror and subsequently led a multinational military operation against Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
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University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.
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Uruzgan Province
Uruzgan (Pashto:; Dari), also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
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Ustad Muhammad Akbari
Ustad Muhammad Akbari (استاد محمد اکبری) known as Ustad Akbari, is a former Hazara jihadist commander in Afghanistan, who has held various political affiliations during periods of conflict in Afghanistan.
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Uzbeks
The Uzbeks (Oʻzbek, Ўзбек,, Oʻzbeklar, Ўзбеклар) are a Turkic ethnic group native to the wider Central Asian region, being among the largest Turkic ethnic group in the area.
Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.
Vaccine misinformation
Misinformation related to immunization and the use of vaccines circulates in mass media and social media in spite of the fact that there is no serious hesitancy or debate within mainstream medical and scientific circles about the benefits of vaccination.
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Videocassette recorder
A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV sources and can play back the recording after rewinding.
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Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
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Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America.
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Waheedullah Sabawoon
Wahidullah Sabawoon is a citizen of Afghanistan who has held a variety of political and military offices.
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War crime
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.
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War on terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.
Warlord
A warlord is an individual who exercises military, economic, and political control over a region, often within a country without a strong national government, through usually informal or illegal coercive control over the local armed forces.
Welbeck Publishing Group
Welbeck Publishing Group, formerly Carlton Publishing Group, is a London-based independent book publisher of fiction, narrative and illustrated non-fiction, as well as gift and children's books.
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Western Europe
Western Europe is the western region of Europe.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Women in Afghanistan
Women's rights in Afghanistan have varied greatly depending on the time period as well as the regime in power.
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Women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.
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World Food Programme
The World Food Programme (WFP) is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide.
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Yakawlang
Yakawlang (also romanized as Yakaolang) (یکاولنگ) was a city of 65,000 people (est. 2000) in Yakawlang District, Bamyan Province, Afghanistan.
Yakawlang District
Yakawlang (یکاولنگ) is district located in the northwestern part of Bamyan Province.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zabihullah Mujahid
Zabihullah Mujahid (ذبیح الله مجاهد; Ẕabīḥullāh Mujāhid; also spelled Dhabih Allah Mujahid) is an Afghan militant spokesperson who has been the chief spokesman for the internationally unrecognized Taliban regime of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 25 October 2021 and their Deputy Minister of Information and Culture since 7 September 2021.
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Zablon Simintov
Zablon Simintov (זבולון סימן-טוב; born 1959), also known as Zebulon Simentov, is an Afghan Jewish former carpet trader and restaurateur.
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Zakat
Zakat (or Zakāh) is one of the five pillars of Islam.
055 Brigade
The 055 Brigade was a guerrilla organization loyal to Osama bin Laden that was sponsored and trained by al-Qaeda, and was integrated into the Taliban between 1996 and 2001. Taliban and 055 Brigade are al-Qaeda allied groups.
1998 killing of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan
On 8 August 1998, amidst the Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif was attacked as the Taliban were besieging the city.
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1998 Mazar-i-Sharif massacre
The 1998 Mazar-i-Sharif massacre took place in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan in 1998.
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2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.
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2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings
The 2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings were a pair of bombings in the Afghan capital of Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif.
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2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war.
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2021 Afghanistan–Iran clashes
The 2021 Afghanistan–Iran clashes took place between the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces and the Iranian Border Guard Command along checkpoints on the Afghanistan–Iran border.
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2021 Kandahar bombing
On 15 October 2021, a suicide bombing occurred at the Imam Bargah Mosque, also known as Fatima Mosque, a Shia mosque, during Friday prayers in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing at least 65 people and wounding more than 70.
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2021 Kunduz mosque bombing
On 8 October 2021, an ISIS-K suicide bombing occurred at the Shia Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz.
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2021 Taliban offensive
The 2021 Taliban offensive was a military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and allied militants that led to the fall of the Kabul-based Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year War in Afghanistan that had begun following the United States invasion of the country.
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See also
1994 establishments in Afghanistan
- Pamir Airways
- Taliban
Al-Qaeda allied groups
- 055 Brigade
- Abdullah Azzam Brigades
- Abu Dujana Al-Afghani
- Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades
- Abu Sayyaf
- Al-Mulathameen
- Al-Nusra Front
- Al-Qaeda in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Al-Shabaab (militant group)
- Ansar Bait al-Maqdis
- Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind
- Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan
- Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen)
- Ansaru
- Ansarul Islam (Sahel)
- Army of Islam (Gaza)
- Caucasus Emirate
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad
- Fatah al-Islam
- Gang de Roubaix
- Hamburg cell
- Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
- Islamic Jihad Union
- Islamic Jihad of Yemen
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Islamic State of Iraq
- Jaish al-Ta'ifa al-Mansurah
- Jaish-e-Mohammed
- Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
- Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna
- Jamaat Ansarullah
- Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah
- Jaysh al-Ummah (Gaza)
- Jemaah Islamiyah
- Jund al-Sham
- Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
- Mujahideen Shura Council (Iraq)
- Nadim al-Maghrebi
- Osbat al-Ansar
- Rabita Trust
- Salafia Jihadia
- Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
- Taliban
- Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad
- Tunisian Combatant Group
Anti-Buddhism
- 2002 Soweto bombings
- 2012 Ramu violence
- 2013 Bodh Gaya bombings
- Buddhas of Bamiyan
- Buddhist crisis
- Cambodian genocide
- Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict
- Criticism of Buddhism
- Haibutsu kishaku
- Langdarma
- Mahmud al-Kashgari
- Perkasa
- Persecution of Buddhists
- Siege of Mount Hiei
- Siege of Nara
- Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- Taliban
- Turkic settlement of the Tarim Basin
Anti-Christian sentiment in Afghanistan
- Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Taliban
Anti-Hindu sentiment
- 2009 cow head protests
- Air India Flight 182
- Al-Qaeda
- Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind
- Anti-Brahminism
- Anti-Hindu sentiment
- Bhagavad Gita As It Is trial in Russia
- Church involvement in Fiji coups
- Deshapremi Janatha Vyaparaya
- Dotbusters
- Dusky Peril
- Haqeeqat (book)
- Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them
- Indonesian Marhaen People's Union
- Iqbal Bhatkal
- Islamic State
- Kancha Ilaiah
- Keling
- Khalistan Zindabad Force
- Lajja (novel)
- Malaun
- Manmasi National Christian Army
- Pakistani textbooks controversy
- Perkasa
- Persecution of Hindus
- Prothom Bangladesh
- Rajan Zed prayer protest
- Slumdog Millionaire controversies
- Stormfront (website)
- Students' Islamic Movement of India
- Taliban
- The Goa Inquisition
- Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala prayer controversy
Anti-ISIL factions
- Christian militias in Iraq and Syria
- Houthi movement
- Marxist–Leninist Party (Communist Reconstruction)
- Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna
- Taliban
- War against the Islamic State
Anti-Zionism in Asia
Anti-Zoroastrianism
Anti-anarchism
- 2004 Dublin May Day protests
- Amakasu Incident
- Anarchism or Socialism?
- Ashab al-Kahf (militant group)
- Axis of Resistance
- Barracks anarchists
- Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict
- Case of Irianna V.L.
- Cheka
- Clichy Affair
- Dirty War
- Estado Novo (Portugal)
- Freikorps
- Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba
- Hezbollah
- High Treason Incident
- Houthi movement
- International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists
- Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- Kameido incident
- Kansk affair
- Khomeinism
- Kronstadt rebellion
- La Forestral massacre
- Lois scélérates
- Omladina Trial
- Operation Condor
- Patagonia Rebelde
- Piazza Fontana bombing
- Polonsky conspiracy
- Ramón Lorenzo Falcón
- Red Flag Incident
- Red Terror
- Red-baiting
- Secret Protocol for the International War on Anarchism
- Songbun
- Taliban
- Totalitarianism
- Tragic Week (Argentina)
- Trial of the Thirty
Antisemitism in Asia
- Antisemitism in China
- Antisemitism in India
- Antisemitism in Iran
- Antisemitism in Japan
- Antisemitism in Lebanon
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Palestine
- Antisemitism in Russia
- Antisemitism in Saudi Arabia
- Antisemitism in Turkey
- Antisemitism in Yemen
- Antisemitism in the Middle East
- Gessius Florus
- International Holocaust Cartoon Competition
- Kabul synagogue
- Mahathir Mohamad
- Osama bin Laden
- Prosperous Justice Party
- Racism in the State of Palestine
- Songbun
- Taliban
Deobandi organisations
- Aalmi Majlis Tahaffuz Khatm-e-Nubuwwat
- Aid Organization of the Ulema
- Al Manahil Welfare Foundation Bangladesh
- Al-Haiatul Ulya Lil-Jamiatil Qawmia Bangladesh
- All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama
- All India Muslim Personal Law Board
- Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan
- Befaqul Madarisiddinia Bangladesh
- Befaqul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh
- Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
- Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh
- International Majlis-e Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e Nobuwat Bangladesh
- Islami Andolan Bangladesh
- Islami Oikya Jote
- Islamic Fiqh Academy (India)
- Jaish-e-Mohammed
- Jamaat Ansarullah
- Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind
- Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam Nazryati
- Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind
- Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
- Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F)
- Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (S)
- Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
- Khelafat Majlish
- Lashkar-e-Islam
- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
- List of Deobandi organisations
- Majlis-e Ahrar-e Islam
- Majlis-e Dawatul Haq Bangladesh
- Muslim Independent Party
- Muslim Union Party
- Nadwatul Ulama
- Nizam-e-Islam Party
- Pakistan Rah-e-Haq Party
- Payam-e-Insaniyat
- Rabita Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
- Sipah-e-Sahaba
- Tablighi Jamaat
- Taliban
- Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan
- Wifaq-ul-Madaris al-Arabia
Far-right politics in Afghanistan
- Taliban
Government of Afghanistan
- Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office
- Afghan identity card
- Afghan passport
- Afghanistan Investment Support Agency
- Corruption in Afghanistan
- Democracy in Afghanistan
- Foreign relations of Afghanistan
- Government of Afghanistan
- Heads of state of Afghanistan
- Helmand and Arghandab Valley Authority
- Jirga
- Judiciary of Afghanistan
- Kabul Library
- Kabul Tower
- Law of Afghanistan
- List of Taliban insurgency leaders
- Military of Afghanistan
- National Statistics and Information Authority
- Sakhi Dad Mujahid
- Taliban
Islamic nationalism
- 2022 Leicester unrest
- Caucasus Emirate
- Felicity Party
- Free Cause Party
- Great East (ideology)
- Great Unity Party
- Grey Wolves (organization)
- Hamas
- Houthi movement
- Iranian Revolution
- Islamokemalism
- Killing of Rami Ayyad
- Kurdish-Islamic synthesis
- Millî Görüş
- Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu
- Muslim nationalism in South Asia
- National Path Party
- Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
- Ottoman Hearths
- Pakistani nationalism
- Taliban
- Turkish–Islamic synthesis
Jihadist groups in Afghanistan
- Ahrar-ul-Hind
- Haqqani network
- High Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Hizb-i Islami Afghanistan
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Islamic State – Khorasan Province
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Jamaat al-Dawah ila al-Quran wal-Sunnah
- Jund al-Sham
- Jundallah (Iran)
- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
- Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Pakistani Taliban
- Punjabi Taliban
- Taliban
- Tora Bora Military Front
- Turkistan Islamic Party
Jihadist groups in Pakistan
- Abdullah Azzam Brigades
- Ahrar-ul-Hind
- Al-Badr (Jammu and Kashmir)
- Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent
- Al-Umar-Mujahideen
- Ansar Al-Furqan
- Ansarul Sharia Pakistan
- Asian Tigers (militant group)
- Ghazi Force
- Haji Namdar Group
- Haqqani network
- Harkat-ul Mujahideen al-Alami
- Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
- Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
- Hizbul Mujahideen
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Islamic State – Khorasan Province
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Jaish ul-Adl
- Jamaat ul-Fuqra
- Jamaat-ul-Ahrar
- Jundallah (Pakistan)
- Lashkar-e-Islam
- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
- Lashkar-e-Omar
- Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Mujahideen Shura (North Waziristan)
- Pakistani Taliban
- People's Anti-Fascist Front
- Punjabi Taliban
- Rabita Trust
- Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan
- Taliban
- Tariq Gidar Group
- Tehreek-e-Azaadi Jammu and Kashmir
- Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan
- Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
- Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
- The Resistance Front
- Tora Bora Military Front
- Turkistan Islamic Party
- Ummah Tameer-e-Nau
Organizations designated as terrorist by Kyrgyzstan
- Al-Qaeda
- East Turkestan Liberation Organization
- Imam Bukhari Jamaat
- Islamic State
- Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
- Taliban
- Turkistan Islamic Party
Organizations designated as terrorist by Russia
- Ahrar al-Sham
- Aidar Battalion
- Ajnad al-Kavkaz
- Al-Haramain Foundation
- Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya
- Al-Nusra Front
- Al-Qaeda
- Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
- Aum Shinrikyo
- Azov Brigade
- Caucasus Emirate
- Congress of the Peoples of Ichkeria and Dagestan
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad
- Freedom of Russia Legion
- Hizb ut-Tahrir
- Hizb ut-Tahrir in Central Asia
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan
- Islamic State
- Jaish-e-Mohammed
- Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
- Jamaat-e-Islami
- Jamiat-e Islami
- Jaysh al-Islam
- Jemaah Islamiyah
- Jund al-Sham
- Lashkar-e-Taiba
- List of organizations designated as terrorist or extremist by Russia
- Muslim Brotherhood
- National Socialism / White Power
- Network (Russia)
- Noman Çelebicihan Battalion
- Osbat al-Ansar
- People's Militia named after Minin and Pozharsky
- People's Self-Defense (Russia)
- Right Sector
- Russian Volunteer Corps
- Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage
- Syrian opposition
- Tahrir al-Sham
- Taliban
- Turkistan Islamic Party
- White Helmets (Syrian civil war)
Organizations designated as terrorist by Tajikistan
Organizations designated as terrorist by the United Arab Emirates
- Abdullah Azzam Brigades
- Ahrar al-Sham
- Al-Ashtar Brigades
- Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya
- Al-Mourabitoun (militant group)
- Al-Mukhtar Brigades
- Al-Nusra Front
- Al-Qaeda
- Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
- Al-Shabaab (militant group)
- Al-Tawhid Brigade
- Ansar Bait al-Maqdis
- Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan
- Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)
- Ansar al-Sharia (Yemen)
- Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
- Badr Organization
- Boko Haram
- Caucasus Emirate
- Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies
- Council on American–Islamic Relations
- Fatah al-Islam
- February 14 Youth Coalition
- Green Battalion
- Hezbollah Al-Hejaz
- Houthi Movement
- Houthi movement
- Indian Mujahideen
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
- Islamic State
- Jaish-e-Mohammed
- Kata'ib Hezbollah
- Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Osbat al-Ansar
- Promised Day Brigade
- Rabita Mosque
- Syrian Martyrs' Brigades
- Taliban
- Turkistan Islamic Party
- Waad Allah Brigades
Organizations that oppose LGBT rights in Asia
- Adequate Party
- Al-Fajr Media
- Al-Qaeda
- Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
- Ashab al-Kahf (militant group)
- Bodu Bala Sena
- ELAM (Cyprus)
- Haqqani network
- Hezbollah
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Jnud al-Rab
- Society for Truth and Light
- Tahrir al-Sham
- Taliban
- Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan
Pashtun nationalism
- Afghan Mellat Party
- Ali Wazir
- Awami National Party
- Bannu Resolution
- Khalq
- Khudai Khidmatgar
- National Democratic Movement (Pakistan)
- National Revolutionary Party of Afghanistan
- National Youth Organisation (Pakistan)
- PTM public gatherings
- Pakhtunkhwa Olasi Tehreek
- Pashtoons Social Democratic Party
- Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
- Pashtun colonization of northern Afghanistan
- Pashtun nationalism
- Pashtun nationalists
- Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party
- Pashtunkhwa National Awami Party
- Qaumi Watan Party
- Sindh Mohajir Punjabi Pathan Muttahida Mahaz
- Taliban
Sexism in Afghanistan
- Judiciary of Afghanistan
- Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Afghanistan)
- Sex segregation in Afghanistan
- Taliban
- Violence against women in Afghanistan
Sunni Islamist groups
- 19th Division (Syrian rebel group)
- Ahrar al-Sharqiya
- Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union
- Al Islah (United Arab Emirates)
- Al-Qaeda
- Al-Shabaab (Mozambique)
- Al-Tawhid Brigade
- Alperen Hearths
- Alwiya al-Furqan
- Ansar Al-Furqan
- Australian National Imams Council
- Caliphate State
- Egyptian Islamic Jihad
- Fatah al-Islam
- Global Anti-Aggression Campaign
- Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front
- Grey Wolves (organization)
- Hamas
- Harakat Ansar Iran
- High Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- Hizbul Islam
- Hurras al-Din
- Islamic Army in Iraq
- Jabhat Ansar al-Islam
- Jaish ul-Adl
- Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad
- Jaysh al-Islam
- Jaysh al-Sunna
- Jeish Muhammad
- Jundallah (Iran)
- Liwa al-Haqq (Idlib)
- Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar
- Majlis-e Dawatul Haq Bangladesh
- Mujahideen Brigades
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Muslim United Liberation Tigers of Assam
- Palestinian Mujahideen Movement
- Prosperous Justice Party
- Raiwind Ijtema
- Salvation Force
- Suqour al-Sham Brigades
- Syrian Liberation Front
- Tablighi Jamaat
- Taliban
- Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan
- The White Shroud
- Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria
- World Sunni Movement
Theocracies
- Afghanistan
- Hospitaller Malta
- Iran
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- Monastic community of Mount Athos
- Northern Celestial Masters
- Prince-bishoprics
- Shia theocracy
- Sovereign Military Order of Malta
- Taliban
- Theocrats
- Touba
- Vatican City
Violence against LGBT people in Asia
- Al-Qaeda
- Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq
- Duck Den murder
- Emo killings in Iraq
- Human rights in Islamic State-controlled territory
- Islamic State
- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
- John Maurice Scott
- Johore Road transvestite murder
- Killing of Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh
- Killing of Ali Fazeli Monfared
- Killing of Jennifer Laude
- Killing of Noor Alsaffar
- Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni
- Murder of Allen R. Schindler Jr.
- Murder of Avaz Hafizli
- Murder of Celine Ng
- Murder of Doski Azad
- Murder of Ho Kien Leong
- Murder of Lee Kok Cheong
- Patrol 36
- Popular Mobilization Forces
- Sao Saw Et
- School-related gender-based violence in Vietnam
- Taliban
- Tel Aviv gay centre shooting
- Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018
- Very Idham Henyansyah
- Violence against LGBT people in Russia
- Walterina Markova
- Xulhaz Mannan
- Yaakov Teitel
- Yishai Schlissel
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