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. ^[1]

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 Haq (Afghan leader)

Abdul Haq (born Humayoun Arsala; April 23, 1958 – October 26, 2001) was an Afghan mujahideen commander who fought against the Soviet-backed People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, the de facto Afghan government in the 1980s.

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Abdul Majid Rouzi

General Abdul Majid Rozi was an Uzbek commander and warlord of Arab descent during the Afghan Civil war.

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Abdul Malik Pahlawan

Abdul Malik Pahlawan is an Afghan Uzbek warlord and politician based in Faryab Province in northern Afghanistan.

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Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai

Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai (c.194721 August 1997) was a politician and diplomat of Afghanistan.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Abdul Rashid Dostum are Afghanistan conflict (1978–present) and Islamic State of Afghanistan.

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Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

Abdulrab Rasul Sayyaf (عبدالرب رسول سیف; born 1946) is an exiled Afghan politician and former mujahideen commander.

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Abdur Razzaq (Taliban official)

Mullah Abdur Razzaq Akhundzada (1958 – October 2003) was a Pashtun politician who served as the Interior Minister of Afghanistan in 2001.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) are 20th century in Afghanistan, Afghanistan conflict (1978–present), Afghanistan–Pakistan relations, battles involving the Tajiks, Warlordism, wars involving Afghanistan and wars involving Pakistan.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Afghan conflict are Afghanistan conflict (1978–present), Warlordism, wars involving Afghanistan and wars involving the Taliban.

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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.

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Ahmad Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari:,; September 2, 1953September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.

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Airspace

Airspace is the portion of the atmosphere controlled by a country above its territory, including its territorial waters or, more generally, any specific three-dimensional portion of the atmosphere.

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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.

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Amin Saikal

Amin Saikal (born in Kabul, Afghanistan), is Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, and Founding Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East & Central Asia), at the Australian National University.

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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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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Andkhoy (city)

Andkhoy (اندخوی; اندخوی ولسوالۍ) is a city in the northern part of Afghanistan, which has a population of about 47,857 people.

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Arab world

The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.

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Armoured personnel carrier

An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones.

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Asif Mohseni

Muhammad Asif Mohseni (آیت‌الله العظمی محمد آصف محسنی; 26 April 1935 – 5 August 2019) was an Afghan Twelver Shi'a Marja', widely considered to have been the most powerful in Afghanistan.

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Ayman al-Zawahiri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (translit; 19 June 195131 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022.

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Badakhshan

Badakhshan is a historical region comprising parts of modern-day north-eastern Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.

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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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Bagram Airfield

Bagram Airfield-BAF, also known as Bagram Air Base, is located southeast of Charikar in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan.

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Bamyan

Bamyan (بامیان), also spelled Bamiyan or Bamian, is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan.

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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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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and battle of Kabul (1992–1996) are 1990s in Afghanistan, Afghanistan conflict (1978–present) and Warlordism.

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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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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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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). Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Burhanuddin Rabbani are 1990s in Afghanistan and Islamic State of Afghanistan.

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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.

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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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Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) (صدرنشین مجلسِ مشترکہَ رؤسائے افواجِ پاکستان) is, in principle, the highest-ranking and senior most uniformed military officer, typically at four-star rank, in the Pakistan Armed Forces who serves as a Principal Staff Officer and a chief military adviser to the civilian government led by elected Prime minister of Pakistan and his/her National Security Council.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chief of the Army Staff (Pakistan)

The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) is a position in the Pakistani Army held by a four-star general.

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Colonel

Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col, or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Colonel Imam

Brigadier Sultan Amir Tarar, best known as Colonel Imam, (died 23 January 2011) was a one-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, and a former diplomat who served as the Consul-General of Pakistan at Herat, Afghanistan.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Daily Times (Pakistan)

The Daily Times (DT) is an English-language Pakistani newspaper.

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Democratic consolidation

Democratic consolidation is the process by which a new democracy matures, in a way that it becomes unlikely to revert to authoritarianism without an external shock, and is regarded as the only available system of government within a country.

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Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), renamed the Republic of Afghanistan in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan are 1990s in Afghanistan, 20th century in Afghanistan and Afghanistan conflict (1978–present).

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Drone warfare

Drone warfare is a form of warfare using unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) or weaponized commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or unmanned surface vehicles.

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Eastern Shura

Regional and tribal Afghan leaders rose up and formed an alliance known as the Eastern Shura to oust the Taliban in Khowst Province and Nangarhar Province, during the War in Afghanistan. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Eastern Shura are 2000s in Afghanistan and Afghanistan conflict (1978–present).

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Egyptian Islamic Jihad

The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ, الجهاد الإسلامي المصري), formerly called simply Islamic Jihad (الجهاد الإسلامي) and the Liberation Army for Holy Sites, originally referred to as al-Jihad, and then the Jihad Group, or the Jihad Organization, was an Egyptian Islamist group active since the late 1970s.

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Election

An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.

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Emir

Emir (أمير, also transliterated as amir, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or ceremonial authority. The title has a long history of use in the Arab World, East Africa, West Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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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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Frontier Corps

The Frontier Corps (سرحد واہنی, reporting name: FC), are a group of four paramilitary forces of Pakistan, operating in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to maintain law and order while overseeing the country's borders with Afghanistan and Iran.

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George Washington University

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 by the United States Congress and is the first university founded under Washington D.C.'s jurisdiction.

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Ghor Province

Ghōr, also spelled Ghowr or Ghur (غور), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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Ghorband District

Ghorband (غوربند), also known as Syagird after its main town, is a district of Parwan province, Afghanistan.

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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.

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Hairatan

Hairatan (حیرتان; حیرتان; Uzbek Cyrillic: Ҳайратон, Uzbek Latin: Hayraton) is a border town in northern Balkh Province of Afghanistan.

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Haji Abdul Qadeer

Haji Abdul Qadeer (حاجی عبدالقدیر; – 6 July 2002) was an Afghan politician and prominent Northern Alliance leader who fought the Taliban during the Third Afghan Civil War. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Haji Abdul Qadeer are Islamic State of Afghanistan.

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Hamid Gul

Lieutenant General Hamid Gul (حمید گل&lrm;; 20 November 1936 – 15 August 2015) was a Pakistani three-star general and defence analyst.

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Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai (Pashto/حامد کرزی,,; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan politician who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from December 2004 to September 2014. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Hamid Karzai are 2000s in Afghanistan.

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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.

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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.

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Hazaras

The Hazaras (Hazāra; Āzrə) are an ethnic group and a principal component of the population of Afghanistan.

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Hegemony

Hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.

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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.

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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.

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History Commons

The History Commons is a website and organization that documents events and issues of great social and political significance via detailed timelines.

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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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Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism is an ideology centered on the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans to reduce suffering and improve the conditions of humanity for moral, altruistic, and emotional reasons.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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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 Committee of the Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.

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International community

The international community is a term used in geopolitics and international relations to refer to a broad group of people and governments of the world.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict

Iran and Saudi Arabia are engaged in an ongoing struggle for influence in the Middle East and other regions of the Muslim world.

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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.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام&zwnj;آباد|translit.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001) are 1990s in Afghanistan, 1996 establishments in Afghanistan, 2000s in Afghanistan, 2001 disestablishments in Afghanistan, Afghanistan conflict (1978–present) and Islamic State of Afghanistan.

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Islamic Movement of Afghanistan

Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (حرکت اسلامی افغانستان, Harakat-e Islami-yi Afghanistan) is a political party and former faction of the Afghan Northern Alliance (United Front) in Afghanistan.

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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.

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Islamic State of Afghanistan

The Islamic State of Afghanistan was established by the Peshawar Accords of 26 April 1992. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Islamic State of Afghanistan are 1990s in Afghanistan, 2000s in Afghanistan and Afghanistan conflict (1978–present).

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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.

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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (جمیعت علماءِ اسلام, abbreviated as JUI, translated as Assembly of Islamic Clergy) is a Deobandi Sunni Muslim organization that was founded on 26 October 1945 by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani as a pro-Pakistan offshoot of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUH).

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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.

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John Negroponte

John Dimitri Negroponte (born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee

The Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), (ہیئتِ مشترکہَ رؤسائے افواجِ پاکستان); is an administrative body of senior high-ranking uniformed military leaders of the unified Pakistan Armed Forces who advises the civilian Government of Pakistan, National Security Council, Defence Minister, President and Prime minister of Pakistan on important military and non-military strategic matters.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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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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Kapisa Province

Kapisa (Persian language) is the smallest of Afghanistan's thirty-four provinces and is located in the north-east of the country.

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Karim Khalili

Karim Khalili (کریمخلیلی; born 1950) is an Afghan politician serving as leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan party.

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Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri

On 31 July 2022, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the Salafi jihadist group al-Qaeda, was killed by a United States drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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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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Kunduz Province

Kunduz (قندوز) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northern part of the country next to Tajikistan.

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Laghman Province

Laghman (Pashto) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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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.

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Mahmud Ahmed

Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed (محمود احمد; b. 1944) is a retired Pakistani three-star rank army general who served as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence from 1999 to 2001.

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Marghab River

The Marghab River (Persian/Pashto: مرغاب, Morqâb, Balochi: مرگاپ), anciently the Margiana (Ancient Greek: Μαργιανή, Margianḗ), is an long river in Central Asia.

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Maymana

Maymana (Persian/Uzbek/Pashto: میمنه) is the capital city of Faryab Province in northwestern Afghanistan, near the Afghanistan–Turkmenistan border.

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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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Mediation

Mediation is a negotiation facilitated by a third-party neutral.

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Ministry of defence

A ministry of defence or defense (see spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and military forces, found in states where the government is divided into ministries or departments.

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Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)

The Ministry of Defense (وزارت دفاع ملی,, د ملي دفاع وزارت) is the cabinet ministry of Afghanistan responsible for overseeing the military of Afghanistan (currently the Islamic Emirate Armed Forces).

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Mohammad Fahim

Mohammad Qasim Fahim (محمد فهیم, popularly known as "Marshal Fahim"; 1957 – 9 March 2014) was an Afghan military commander and politician who served as Vice President of Afghanistan from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death.

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Mohammad Najibullah

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (Pashto/محمد نجیب‌الله احمدزی,; 6 August 1947 – 27 September 1996), commonly known as Dr. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Mohammad Najibullah are 1990s in Afghanistan.

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Mohammad Rabbani

Mullah Mohammad Rabbani Akhund (1955 – 16 April 2001) was one of the main leaders of the Taliban movement who served as Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.

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Mohammad Zahir Shah

Mohammad Zahir Shah (Pashto/Dari: محمد ظاهر شاه; 15 October 1914 – 23 July 2007) was the last king of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until he was deposed on 17 July 1973.

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Muhammad Mohaqiq

Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq (حاجی محمد محقق; born 26 July 1955 in Balkh) is an Afghan politician who served as a member of the Afghanistan Parliament. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Muhammad Mohaqiq are Islamic State of Afghanistan.

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Mullah Omar

Mullah Muhammad Omar (196023 April 2013) was an Afghan mujahideen commander, revolutionary, and the cleric who founded the Taliban.

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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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Naseem Rana

Lieutenant-General Naseem Rana (Urdu: نسيمرانا; born 20 September 1942) was a retired three-star general in the Pakistan Army, who served as the director-general of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) from 1995 to October 1998.

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National Council for the Social Studies

The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) is a private, non-profit association based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that provides leadership, support, and advocacy for social studies education.

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan

The National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (جنبش ملی اسلامی افغانستان, Junbish-i-Milli Islami Afghanistan), sometimes called simply Junbish, is a Turkic political party in Afghanistan.

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Nawaz Sharif

Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu:; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani businessman and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms.

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Newsday

Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Northern Alliance are 1990s in Afghanistan, 1996 establishments in Afghanistan, 2000s in Afghanistan, 2001 disestablishments in Afghanistan, Afghanistan conflict (1978–present) and Islamic State of Afghanistan.

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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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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Osama bin Laden are Afghanistan conflict (1978–present).

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Army

The Pakistan Army, commonly known as the Pak Army (پاک فوج|translit.

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Panjshir offensives (Soviet–Afghan War)

The Panjshir offensives (Панджшерские операции – Panjsher Operations) were a series of battles from 1980 to 1985 between the Soviet Army, the Afghan Armed Forces and groups of Afghan mujahideen under Ahmad Shah Massoud. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Panjshir offensives (Soviet–Afghan War) are battles involving the Tajiks.

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Panjshir Province

Panjshir (Dari:, literally "Five Lions," pronounced /pand͡ʒʃeːɾ/, also spelled as Panjsher) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeastern part of the country containing the Panjshir Valley.

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Panjshir Valley

The Panjshir Valley (also spelled Panjsher; Dari: درهٔ پنجشير, Dara-i-Panjsher, literally "Valley of the Five Lions") is a valley in northeastern Afghanistan, north of Kabul, near the Hindu Kush mountain range.

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Parwan Province

Parwan also spelled Parvan (Pashto/Dari: پروان) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan.

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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.

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Pervez Musharraf

Pervez Musharraf (11 August 1943 – 5 February 2023) was a Pakistani military officer and politician who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Peshawar Accord are Afghanistan conflict (1978–present).

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Peter Tomsen

Peter Tomsen (born November 19, 1940) is an American retired diplomat and educator, serving as U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992, United States Ambassador to Armenia between 1995 and 1998, and was Deputy Ambassador at the United States Embassy in Beijing from 1986 to 1989.

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Physicians for Human Rights

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is a US-based not-for-profit human rights NGO that uses medicine and science to document and advocate against mass atrocities and severe human rights violations around the world.

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Political opportunity

Political opportunity theory, also known as the political process theory or political opportunity structure, is an approach of social movements that is heavily influenced by political sociology.

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Prime Minister of Pakistan

The prime minister of Pakistan (وزِیرِ اعظمپاکستان, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

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Raid (military)

Raiding, also known as depredation, is a military tactic or operational warfare "smash and grab" mission which has a specific purpose.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Reza Deghati

Reza Deghati (رضا دقتی; born July 26, 1952) is an Iranian-French photojournalist.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Samangan Province

Samangan (Dari:; Pashto) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located north of the Hindu Kush mountains in the central part of the country.

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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.

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Sayed Hussein Anwari

Sayed Hussein Anwari (سید حسین انوری) (1956 – 5 July 2016) was an Afghan politician.

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SEAL Team Six

The Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG), abbreviated as DEVGRU ("Development Group") and commonly known as SEAL Team Six, is the United States Navy component of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).

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September 11 attacks

The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.

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Shalwar kameez

Shalwar kameez (also salwar kameez and less commonly shalwar qameez) is a traditional combination dress worn by men and women in South Asia, and Central Asia.

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Sheberghan

Sheberghān or Shaburghān or shāhpurgān (Uzbek, Pashto, شبرغان), also spelled Shebirghan and Shibarghan, is the capital city of the Jowzjan Province in northern Afghanistan.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Shura-e Nazar

The Shura-e Nazar (شورای نظار) (known as the Supervisory Council of the North) was created by Ahmad Shah Massoud in 1984 at the northern provinces of Takhar, Badakhshan, Balkh and Kunduz, during the Soviet-Afghan War.

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South Waziristan District

South Waziristan District (سويلي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ضلع جنوبی وزیرستان) was a district in the Dera Ismail Khan Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, before splitting into the Lower South Waziristan District and the Upper South Waziristan District on 13 April 2022.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Soviet–Afghan War are Afghanistan conflict (1978–present), wars involving Afghanistan and wars involving Pakistan.

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Special Activities Center

The Special Activities Center (SAC) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency responsible for covert and paramilitary operations.

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Suicide attack

A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack.

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Surveillance aircraft

Surveillance aircraft are aircraft used for surveillance.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.

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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.

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Takhar

Takhar or Taahkarr (in Serer and Cangin) is a demi-god in the Serer religion worshipped by many Serers (an ethnic group found in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania).

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Takhar Province

Takhar (Persian) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northeast of the country next to Tajikistan.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and Taliban are Afghanistan–Pakistan relations.

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Taloqan

Taloqan (Persian, also transcribed Taleqan or Taluqan) is the capital of Takhar Province, in northeastern Afghanistan.

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Tank

A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.

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Termez

Termez (Termiz/Термиз; ترمذ, Tirmiz; ترمذ Tirmidh; Термез; Ancient Greek: Tàrmita, Thàrmis, Θέρμις) is the capital of Surxondaryo Region in southern Uzbekistan.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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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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Timeline of Afghan history

This is a timeline of Afghan history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Afghanistan and its predecessor states.

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Tohir Yoʻldosh

Tohir Yo'ldosh (Yunusov Umid), born Tohir Abdulhalilovich Yuldashev (Тахир Абдулхалилович Юлдашев (Yunusov Umid)), (2 October 1967 – 1 October 2009) was an Uzbek Islamist militant who cofounded the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), an Islamist organization active in Central Asia, with Juma Namangani in August 1998.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Turkmens

Turkmens (Türkmenler, italic,,; historically "the Turkmen") are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, living mainly in Turkmenistan, northern and northeastern regions of Iran and north-western Afghanistan.

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Tyrant

A tyrant, in the modern English usage of the word, is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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United States Deputy Secretary of State

The deputy secretary of state of the United States is the principal deputy to the secretary of state.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and United States invasion of Afghanistan are 2001 in Afghanistan and conflicts in 2001.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.

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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.

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Vice president

A vice president or vice-president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank.

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Wahhabism

Wahhabism (translit) is a reformist religious movement within Sunni Islam, based on the teachings of 18th-century Hanbali cleric Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and war in Afghanistan (2001–2021) are 2000s in Afghanistan, 2001 in Afghanistan, 21st century in Afghanistan, Afghanistan conflict (1978–present), Afghanistan–Pakistan relations, wars involving Afghanistan and wars involving Pakistan.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and war on terror are 2000s in Afghanistan, 21st century in Afghanistan, wars involving Afghanistan, wars involving Pakistan and wars involving the Taliban.

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Waziristan

Waziristan (Pashto, وزیرستان) is a mountainous region covering the North Waziristan and South Waziristan districts of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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Ziauddin Butt

General Khawaja Ziauddin Abbasi (خواجہ ضیاء الدین عباسى), also known as Ziauddin Butt (ضیاء الدین بٹ), is a retired four-star rank army generalChaudhry, Aminullah (2009) Hijacking from the Ground: The Bizarre Story of Pk 805.

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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.

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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. Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) and 1998 killing of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan are 1998 in Afghanistan and conflicts in 1998.

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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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40th Army (Soviet Union)

The 40th Army (40-ya obshchevoyskovaya armiya, "40th Combined Arms Army") of the Soviet Ground Forces was an army-level command that participated in World War II from 1941 to 1945 and was reformed specifically for the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to circa 1990.

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References

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