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Mujahideen, members of a number of guerrilla groups during the Afghan War (1978–92) that opposed the invading Soviet forces and eventually toppled the Afghan communist government. Rival factions thereafter fell out among themselves, precipitating the rise of one faction, the Taliban.
Nov 11, 2021 · Rural Afghans formed militias called mujahideen and drove out the Soviets. But then they fell into a civil war with each other. Out of that chaos emerged a group of Islamic teachers and students...
- First Impressions
- A Movement For Turbulent Times
- The Prophet’s Cloak
- The Dead President
- Vandalised Antiquities
- Taliban #2
I had been studying Afghanistan for some time before I landed on a dusty airfield in 1995 and began work in Faizabad, Badakhshan, a remote, conservative backwater in the remote and mountainous northeast of the country. It was inhabited mostly by Tajiks with a mix of other ethnic groups, including Pashtuns and Uzbeks. The country was poor before the...
Questions started to form in my mind about the Taliban’s identity and how it differed from other Mujahideen factions. For example, Ahmad Shah Massoud, the photogenic leader of Jamiat-I Islami, one of the most powerful of the Afghan Mujahideen groups, was a typical Mujahideen warlord – a charismatic orator who was larger than life. In contrast, Mull...
One of Mullah Omar’s first such actions, in 1996, was extraordinary. He removed a holy relic from a shrine in the city of Kandahar – itself a historic former capital where wars had been waged by mighty empires, as depicted in the Bollywood blockbuster, Panipat. This relic was a cloak which Muslims believe belonged to Mohammed, the holy prophet of I...
In a photographwhich exploded like a bomb the day after the Taliban first took Kabul in late September 1996, two young Taliban foot soldiers hug each other with joyful faces under the grotesquely deformed and bloodied figures of former President Najibullah and his brother, hanging from a traffic light pole in Aryana Square. After establishing their...
One of the most dramatic actions of the Taliban was the destructionof the Bamiyan Buddha statues, located in the central highlands of Afghanistan in 2001. This event made the Taliban notorious globally. One of the most celebrated tourist sites in Afghanistan before the war, the Buddhas were described as priceless artefacts – the largest standing Bu...
Since 1994, the Taliban’s actions have all been part of a non-verbal soliloquy, responding to the ghosts of imperialism, colonialism, neo-imperialism and neoliberalism. The group uses public spaces in Afghanistan very much like a stage. Violence is used as a kind of power performance to convey messages and responses to history. The performances are...
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e. Mujahideen, or Mujahidin ( Arabic: مُجَاهِدِين, romanized : mujāhidīn ), is the plural form of mujahid ( Arabic: مُجَاهِد, romanized : mujāhid, lit. 'strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād'), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad ( lit. 'struggle or striving [for justice, right conduct, Godly ...
The Taliban kept up attacks on foreign and Afghan forces and a campaign of terror against civilians, using the long Pakistan frontier as a rear base just as the mujahideen had against the Soviets.
Aug 26, 2021 · And the Taliban emerged from this resistance movement? The mujahedeen waged a guerrilla-style war against Soviet forces for several years, until exhausting the invaders militarily and...
6 days ago · Taliban, ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s following the withdrawal of Soviet troops, the collapse of Afghanistan’s communist regime, and the subsequent breakdown in civil order.
