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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
- Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto ... Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic state at a nexus where numerous Eurasian ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- on several audiotapes, for numerous acts of terrorism in Iraq and Jordan ... movement, Zarqawi opposed the presence of United States and Western military ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- "Respected Leader"), was one of the most prominent and highly ... at war with Britain have been the cause of arguments among historians ...36 KB (5,476 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... to have endured until the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- The period between the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and ... The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 in support of an embryonic ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- (CIA) is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States government ... The CIA's elite division is called the Directorate of Operations ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- 7, 1944), German politician, was Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. ... diplomacy and negotiation must replace use of force not only in resolving ...24 KB (3,672 words) - 17:35, 14 December 2023
- Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation directly aimed ... situations, propaganda involves deception of the audience, for a purpose ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- ("lucky place"), is the capital of the Bukhara Province of Uzbekistan ... Silk Road, the city has long been a center of trade, scholarship, culture ...20 KB (2,826 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United ... name from Dwight Eisenhower, in honor of his grandson, Dwight David ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- 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 ...60 KB (8,496 words) - 22:35, 29 April 2023
- and a noted writer. After the formation of Pakistan, Khan became a controversial ... Mujahidin resistance of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Khan opposed ...27 KB (3,941 words) - 22:56, 3 March 2023
- Guerrilla warfare (also spelled guerilla) is a method of combat by ... While some efforts on the part of guerrilla forces can be understood ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
- 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 ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- In the Cold War, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan marked the end ... held a signing ceremony. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 ...56 KB (8,252 words) - 21:54, 3 January 2024
- or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- 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 ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- right|250px|Kazakh nomads in the steppes of the Russian Empire, ca. 1910]] Nomadic people, also known as nomads, are communities of people that ...40 KB (5,990 words) - 02:37, 16 November 2022
- Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country that ... Historians believe the vast steppes of Kazakhstan were where humans ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- Chechenia or Noxçiyn), is a republic of Russia. It is located in the ... In November 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Chechnya ...48 KB (6,944 words) - 00:48, 5 December 2023
- who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982 ... Concerned about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet ...30 KB (4,486 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2022
- 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 ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of approximately 30 nations ... United Nations in order to liberate the nation of Kuwait. ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- 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 ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
