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United States–Taliban deal. The Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan, commonly known as the United States–Taliban deal or the Doha Accord, [1] was a peace agreement signed by the United States and the Taliban on 29 February 2020 in Doha, Qatar, to bring an end to the 2001–2021 war in Afghanistan. [2][3] Negotiated for the US by ...
Afghanistan–Saudi Arabia relations. Saudi Arabia has historically exerted a strong influence on Afghanistan and was one of the major providers of funds to the Afghan mujahideen who were fighting against the Soviets and their allies the DRA. Saudi Arabia was also the second of only three countries to recognize the first Taliban government ...
Saudi Arabia expelled the Taliban envoy in protest over the refusal to turn over bin Laden, and after Mullah Omar allegedly insulted the Saudi royal family. In mid-October the UN Security Council voted unanimously to ban commercial aircraft flights to and from Afghanistan, and freeze its bank accounts worldwide.
The Soviet entry into Afghanistan prompted its Cold War rivals, especially the United States and Saudi Arabia, to support rebels fighting against the Soviet-backed PDPA. [17] While the secular and socialist government controlled the cities, religiously motivated [18] mujahidin held sway in much of the countryside. [19]
7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021. (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) First phase: 7 October 2001 – 28 December 2014. Second phase: 1 January 2015 – 30 August 2021 [34][35] Location. Afghanistan [a] Result. Taliban victory [36] Islamic State–Taliban conflict and insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continues.
1996–2001. Between 1996 and 2001, only three UN member states — Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—recognized the Islamic Emirate as the rightful government of Afghanistan. [11] The Islamic Emirate received recognition from the partially recognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, [12] though Chechen president Aslan ...
After the removal of Taliban, Saudi Arabia is one of the major helpers in the Afghan reconstruction. For example, the main highway project is funded mainly by the US and Saudi Arabia. The largest mosque in Afghanistan was also financed by Saudi Arabia. Afghanistan has an embassy in Riyadh and a consulate-general in Jeddah.
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, [7] and the US and UK invasion of Afghanistan on 7 October 2001: [8] 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 ...