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The Afghan mujahideen (Pashto: افغان مجاهدين; Dari: مجاهدین افغان) 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. The term mujahid (from Arabic: مجاهدين) is used in a religious context by ...
CIA -funded and ISI -trained Afghan mujahideen fighters crossing the Durand Line border to fight Soviet forces and the Soviet-backed Afghan government in 1985. The origins of al-Qaeda can be traced to the Soviet War in Afghanistan (December 1979 – February 1989). [ 2 ] The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan in terms of the Cold ...
1997. In 1997, following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, the CIA's activities in Afghanistan were largely focused on the aftermath of the Soviet-Afghan War and the rise of the Taliban regime and al-Qaeda's activities within the country. However, with the Cold War over, US priorities shifted.
Afghan mujahideen fighters passing around the Durand Line border in 1985 U.S. President Reagan meeting with Afghan mujahideen at the White House in 1983. Arguably the best-known mujahideen outside the Islamic world are the various, loosely aligned Afghan opposition groups who initially rebelled against the government of the pro-Soviet ...
A 12-year-old Ahmad Massoud, the son of dead commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, being comforted by the then Afghan president at a funeral ceremony after his father’s death in an al-Qaeda attack (AFP ...
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was the government of Afghanistan between 1978 and 1992. It was recognised diplomatically by only eight countries which were allies of the Soviet Union. It was ideologically close to and economically and militarily dependent on the Soviet Union, and was a major belligerent of the Afghan Civil War.
During the government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, the National Reconciliation Policy was developed from the mid-1980s to 1992 by two successive Afghan leaders, Babrak Karmal and Mohammad Najibullah, aiming to end the armed conflict with the Mujahideen and integrate the Mujahideen into a multi-party political process; to get the Soviet Union security forces to withdraw from ...
Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen were also supported by Britain's MI6, who ...