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Jan 28, 2010 · 1992: Led by Ahmed Shah Massoud, Mujahideen forces remove the Soviet-backed government, but in the years that follow rivalry between different groups of fighters reduce Kabul to rubble and...
Mar 4, 2015 · Twenty-six years ago, in February 1989, the last Soviet soldiers pulled out of Afghanistan, ending a nine-year of bloody invasion that left behind a ravaged land and cost the lives of roughly...
- Ali Reza Sarwar
- Russia and The Mujahideen
- When History Goes in Circles
- Learning from Past Experience
While instability and the rise of radical Islamism in Afghanistan are today preoccupying Russia and its partners in Central Asia, there is nonetheless a dose of schadenfreude in the former Soviet sphere in seeing the US fail even more spectacularly than the USSR did. Ghani’s fall recalled the end of Mohammad Najibullah, the last communist ruler ins...
In Afghanistan itself, the fall of Kabul feels like history tragically repeating itself. Former Mujahideen and opposition figures, Soviet-era warlords and their kin, and Pakistani-based armed groups are all once again involved. This is no less than the seventh violent power transition since 1978, not counting the transition between communist rulers...
These historical parallels, to which one could add US interventions in Iraq and Libya, or the Taliban’s first takeover in 1996, are both misleading and revealing. They highlight the similarities but often obscure the differences with the recent events. Still, they can sometimes help us understand them. Hence, Ghani’s regime seemed to have had even ...
Aug 20, 2021 · Afghanistan War. The United States launched the war in Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The conflict lasted two decades and spanned four U.S. presidencies, becoming ...
After the withdrawal of the Soviet military from Afghanistan in February 1989, the PDPA regime collapsed in 1992. [3] In the resulting power vacuum, the mujahideen leaders vied for dominance in a civil war from 1992 to 1996. By then, bin Laden had left the country. [10]
Aug 17, 2021 · After decades of war, Afghanistan has become dependent on billions of dollars in international aid, with more than half the population below the poverty line. Some economists have suggested that a ...
Apr 27, 2021 · 1979-1989: Response to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Joe Biden supported funding the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Jeremy Scahill. April 27 2021, 1:22 p.m. Support Us....
