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- in their lives. When he became aware of intense suffering, he used ... Lindelof were killed while filming in Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 23:50, 25 September 2023
- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province ... , had been built entirely of baked-bricks. Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- from the late 1960s until the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in late December ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that was launched to shore up a ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 10:05, 29 January 2024
- to help the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet invaders. He fled the West ... sent out fatwa to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, moving to Pakistan ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- #039;bʊl]) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, as well as an ... a strategic location along the trade routes of Southern and Central Asia. ...23 KB (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- – December 14, 1989), was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident ... public protests against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and was ...11 KB (1,679 words) - 20:10, 26 July 2023
- commitment to winning, even against the Soviet hockey team that was widely ... in Moscow, in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which began ...18 KB (2,744 words) - 14:09, 9 February 2022
- The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 ... the West would be an ally in the process of liberalization and democratization ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and widow of the late ... public protests against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. He was ...13 KB (1,796 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- (March 10, 1957 - May 2, 2011) was a founder of the militant Islamist al-Qaeda ... Abdullah Azzam to fight the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and lived for ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- the "Goodwill Ambassador" in the Soviet Union during her short lifetime. around the world through the simple act of writing a letter to the leader ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- [[Image:1915NatGeog.jpg|thumb|175px|Cover of January, 1915 National ... National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... territory and its people being invaded. Some of these consequences can be beneficial ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- the mujahedin fighting the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. To shore up ... ===The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan=== On December 25, 1979, the ...33 KB (4,947 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... by Nikita Khrushchev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ... From the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 through the early ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on ... structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- wide attention following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and with ... opposition against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Those Mujahideen ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
