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  2. History of the Jews in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Many Afghan Jews illegally emigrated to British India during the 1940s during the Second World War. Thousands of Afghan Jews also emigrated to Mandatory Palestine during the war, but most of them emigrated to the State of Israel after it was founded in 1948.

  3. Zablon Simintov - Wikipedia

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    Simintov was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the city of Herat in 1959, where he spent most of his early life until his eventual relocation to Kabul.His residence was severely damaged during the Taliban's rise to power in the Second Afghan Civil War, which forced him to move into the city's only synagogue.

  4. Soviet–Afghan War - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet–Afghan War was an armed conflict that took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 46-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Afghan military fight against the rebelling Afghan mujahideen.

  5. List of wars involving Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001) Fourth Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) (1996–2001) Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Taliban; Al-Qaeda. Islamic State of Afghanistan. United Front; Stalemate: Stalemate with varying fronts between the Taliban and Massoud's forces (United Front) Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001–2021) War in ...

  6. Religion in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    There was a small Jewish community in Afghanistan who fled the country before and after the 1979 Soviet invasion. It is thought that there are between 500 and 1,000 secret Jews in Afghanistan who were forced to convert to Islam after the Taliban took control of the country in the 1990s. There are Afghan Jewish expatriate communities in Israel ...

  7. Kabul synagogue - Wikipedia

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    The civil war left much of Kabul in ruins, and essentially all of the country's Jews had left Afghanistan. After a brief stint in Turkmenistan , Simintov returned to Kabul in 1998 or 1999 [ 2 ] and was the synagogue's live-in caretaker.

  8. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) - Wikipedia

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    The War in Afghanistan was a prolonged conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the September 11 attacks carried out by al-Qaeda , toppling the Taliban -ruled Islamic Emirate and establishing the Islamic Republic three years later.

  9. List of military operations in the war in Afghanistan (2001 ...

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    The war in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as Operation Enduring Freedom, in response to the 9/11 attacks.