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- with U.S. support during the Soviet-Afghan war, he subsequently denounced ... * Grau, Lester W. The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Super Power Fought ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
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- in Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. Their desire was to bring ... toward action that could help end the Afghan people's suffering. ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 23:50, 25 September 2023
- The Battle of Kandahar, September 1, 1880, represents the last major conflict of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The battle in southern Afghanistan ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- During the Cold War, the magazine committed itself to presenting a ... the Allied and Russian leaders divided post-war Europe. [http://findarticles ...12 KB (1,728 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- prepare international recruits for the Afghan war front. From Peshawar, a ... around the world blossomed during the Afghan war against Soviet occupation ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- The Durrani Empire (also referred to as the Afghan Empire) was a large ... Shah in order to save his capital from Afghan attack. Having thus gained ...17 KB (2,664 words) - 17:22, 12 February 2024
- Palace. In 1919, after the Third Anglo-Afghan War, Amanullah announced Afghanistan ... built in 1919 after the Third Afghan War. * The mausoleum of Timur ...23 KB (3,393 words) - 06:47, 28 February 2023
- time he also fought in the First Anglo-Afghan War. For his political work ... * Rawlinson, Henry C. The Afghan Crisis. 1878. * Rawlinson, Henry C ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- major targets of the United States' War on Terrorism. As of early ... from around the Arab world into the Afghan war. Bin Laden's inherited ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- with U.S. support during the Soviet-Afghan war, he subsequently denounced ... * Grau, Lester W. The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Super Power Fought ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- 2&_r=2&th&emc=th From Ruins of Afghan Buddhas, a History Grows ... down on "un-Islamic" segments of Afghan society. The Taliban soon ...24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- day Afghanistan. Leadership of the various Afghan tribes rested mainly on the ... He declared a jihad (Islamic holy war) against the Marathas, and ...21 KB (3,377 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- India drawn up at the end of the Anglo-Afghan wars to help hold the Russian ... the British launched the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1838, and attempted ...26 KB (3,912 words) - 15:02, 7 October 2022
- since Alamgir II, himself a puppet of the Afghan king, Ahmad Shah Durrani ... II, and he had ruled as a puppet of the Afghan King, Ahmad Shah Durrani ...15 KB (2,445 words) - 05:45, 26 August 2023
- in 1912; she died during the flu pandemic after World War I. rule in the region.Victoria Schofield, Afghan Frontier Feuding and Fighting ...27 KB (3,941 words) - 22:56, 3 March 2023
- regiment in 1943, and served during World War II. After Pakistan gained ... ==Involvement in the Soviet-Afghan War== ===The Soviet invasion of ...33 KB (4,947 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- Nader at first submitted to the local Afghan governor of Mashhad, Malek ... joined his army. The new Ghilzai Afghan shah, Ashraf, decided to ...23 KB (3,626 words) - 23:01, 10 November 2022
- he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Afghan Lodi Sultans at the First ... the pattern of their predecessors, the Afghan Lodi Sultans. ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- hot Washington, D.C. summers. During World War II, German U boats ranged ... With the end of World War II, the future of Shangri-La was in doubt ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- affected by approximately three million Afghan refugees (of which 81.5 percent ... Khan, following the Third Anglo-Afghan War. The monarchy ended with ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- The Pashtun people began using the term Afghan from at least the Islamic ... talc, barites, sulfur, lead, and salt. War has caused of these mineral ...50 KB (7,441 words) - 05:59, 16 June 2023
- approach its former strength until the Afghan war. In the 1980s, Pakistan ... After the Afghan war, which ended in favor of the anti-Soviet alliance ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- Turkey. The more than century of tug-of-war accentuated the Sunni and ... From 1609-1610, war broke out between Kurdish tribes and Safavid Empire ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- States in the region had been bitter because of the War on Terrorism in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The U.S. participation in relief efforts, coupled ...24 KB (3,487 words) - 06:41, 13 June 2023
- as dishonorable, including the Second Afghan War and the Zulu War. He advocated ... during the ongoing The Second Anglo-Afghan War in Afghanistan. He saw ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- elements.Jeffrey Record, Bounding the Global War on Terrorism (University Press ... from-ronald-reagan-and-the-soviet-afghan-war-to-george-w-bush-and-september ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- [Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], during the war, 1993. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev]] ... in 1979 through the early 1990s, the Afghan War (1978–92) caused more ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- surprise attacks. This method of conducting war can be traced back at least ... for his guerrilla tactics in the Soviet-Afghan war. In Afghanistan, numerous ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
- became citizens of Israel after World War II, many Jews continued living ... from the Iron Curtain regimes after World War II; tens of thousands of South ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- The Laotian Civil War (1962-1975) was an internal fight between the ... system or a stable economy before civil war began. Civil war alone would ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge ... *[http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/afghan-secrets-revealed-on-google ...15 KB (2,234 words) - 16:57, 8 December 2022
- a Sikh Army embarked to hunt down the Afghan force. Ordered to show no ... the Sikh soldiers who died fighting in World War I and World War II. ...15 KB (2,334 words) - 18:54, 23 June 2020
- of Ulster in 1610, following the Nine Years War (1595-1603). These plantations ... British objectives. The First Anglo-Afghan War led to one of the most ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- of his differences with the Party's War Policy. He rejoined the Congress ... A cease fire was announced in the Afghan Civil War to allow the funeral ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 22:34, 3 March 2023
- * Soviet–Afghan War * Global War on Terrorism * War in Afghanistan ... ran his own operation during the Afghan war, bringing in and training ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- War, Sino-Soviet War, Vietnam War, Soviet-Afghan War | awards ... the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War at a time when the two super ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- culture prior to the shock of World War I. While Picasso's influence ... During the Second World War, Picasso remained in Paris while the Germans ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- into a city. In 1857, the First Indian War for Independence broke out ... 1990s saw an influx of refugees from the Afghan war into Karachi. Political ...42 KB (6,146 words) - 08:28, 28 February 2023
- were fighting the Seven Years' War in Europe (1756–1763). The ... border was the advancing army of the Afghan, Ahmad Shah Abdali who had ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 10:19, 22 September 2023
- The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... incident. Italy, facing opposition to its war in Abyssinia from the League ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- culture may be seen in Tolstoy's War and Peace and the Soviet identification ... Napoleon's invasion is better known in Russia as the Patriotic ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- times siege warfare dominated the conduct of war throughout the world. However ... used much later in Vietnam during the Vietnam War). Until the invention ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- At that period the First Anglo-Afghan War was at its height, and in crossing over from Persia through Afghanistan the Aga Khan supported the ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- The Cold War was the protracted ideological, geopolitical, and economic ... and communism was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- There were protest songs of the anti-war and civil rights movements ... from rap music to soul. Helmet and The Afghan Whigs were also successful ...19 KB (3,125 words) - 00:43, 27 January 2021
- 2005, he reportedly declared "all-out war" on Shia Muslims in Iraq ... April 2003 or laid the preparations for the war during extensive visits to ...57 KB (8,842 words) - 17:21, 17 December 2022
- Office of Strategic Services (OSS) of World War II, which was dissolved in ... Particularly during the Cold War, the CIA supported numerous governments ...26 KB (3,792 words) - 23:54, 3 December 2023
- His poetry forms the basis of much classical Iranian and Afghan music. ... Death of Prophet Muhammed to the First World War. Xlibris6, 2001. ISBN 978 ...22 KB (3,530 words) - 16:32, 12 December 2023
- against the Pandavas in the Mahabharata war. The Gandharas were well trained ... are still spoken today. However, the Afghan language, Pashto, is the ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- Ahmad Shah of the Afghan Durrani Empire consolidated control over ... and were mostly Hindu. The First Anglo-Sikh War, that broke out in 1845, led ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- information on troop movements during World War II (National Archives)]] ... after the start of the Thirty Years' War, Pope Gregory XV founded the ...32 KB (4,797 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
