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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 ...

The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province ... , had been built entirely of baked-bricks. Robert Hillenbrand, Islamic ...

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 ...

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 ...

#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. ...

– December 14, 1989), was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident ... public protests against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and was ...

commitment to winning, even against the Soviet hockey team that was widely ... in Moscow, in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which began ...

The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the ... The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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ruled empires that dominated large portions of Europe and the Asia-Pacific ... On September 18, 1931, Manchuria was an object of Japanese invasion ...

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 ...

the mujahedin fighting the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. To shore up ... ===The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan=== On December 25, 1979, the ...

This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... by Nikita Khrushchev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the ...

Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ... From the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 through the early ...

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 ...

wide attention following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and with ... opposition against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Those Mujahideen ...

Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic state at a nexus where numerous Eurasian ...

The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...

on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...

"Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments among historians ...

laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... to have endured until the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ...

The period between the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 in support of an embryonic ...

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...

(CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...

Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...

7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... diplomacy and negotiation must replace use of force not only in resolving ...

Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ... situations, propaganda involves deception of the audience, for a purpose ...

("lucky place"), is the capital of the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan ... Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture ...

in the twentieth century. When one side of a conflict participates in ... War, the Vietnam War, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Since the end ...

is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United ... name from Dwight Eisenhower, in honor of his grandson, Dwight David ...

was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier ... During the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Kosygin was a member ...

and a noted writer. After the formation of Pakistan, Khan became a controversial ... Mujahidin resistance of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Khan opposed ...

Guerrilla warfare (also spelled guerilla) is a method of combat by ... While some efforts on the part of guerrilla forces can be understood ...

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...

In the Cold War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan marked the end ... held a signing ceremony. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 ...

or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...

a person or organization as an expression of protest or as a means of economic ... ==Origin of the term== The word boycott entered the English language ...

1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent B.F. Manz ... at Kesh, near Samarkand. Timur was a member of the Turkic Barlas clan of Mongols ...

and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from June 16, 2011 ... and eventually attained the rank of emir. He was imprisoned from ...

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Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...

Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia. It is located in the ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...

who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... Concerned about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet ...

UNSC) was created after World War II as part of the United Nations. It was ... Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective ...

conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...

Imperial Russia on one side and an alliance of the United Kingdom of Great ... The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in ...

different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...

The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient ... ) as the main Turkic power in the region and took hold of the lucrative ...

in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...

the southwest and the People's Republic of China to the southeast. girls," a reference to the Manas of folklore unifying 40 tribes ...

, was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. ... of Iraqi Communists, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviet hope ...

from Russia as the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. After the initial ... religious clash. Some Chechens, the majority of whom are Muslim, began to describe ...

The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into ... Yet as a matter of record, women have played a significant role in ...

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... the Republican Party. Bush is the eldest son of the 41st U.S. President, George ...

in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral ... Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative ...

Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan brought some three million Afghan ...

Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...

the aircraft carrier as the capital ship of the fleet, a role previously ... 000 tonnes or more, has been the pinnacle of carrier development since their ...

commanded a battalion and later a brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...

PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...

fought between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria ... to Egypt following the Camp David Accords of 1979, while the rest of the ...

Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and ... Since 1979, due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and continued ...

The Vietnam War was a military conflict in which communist forces ... The chief cause of the war cause was Ho Chi Minh’s desire to establish ...

and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime ... and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response ...

established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...

Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...

Marxism, in a narrow sense, refers to the thoughts and theories of ... thoughts, theories, and movements of Marxism have emerged since ...

transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... Formerly the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) ...

A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... the Middle East show archaeological evidence of having had fortified city walls ...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية ... The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques ...

from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... began on November 4, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which began ...

The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... name for the Indus River. The Constitution of India and common usage in Hindi ...

The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...

The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...

lit. The Book of Kings, ʃɒːhnɒːˈme|pron 977 and 1010 C.E. and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of ...

The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...