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Parent topics
- Uzbekistan [r]: Previously part of the Soviet Union, a landlocked, predominantly Muslim nation of Central Asia, with Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan as neighbors [e]
- Islam Karimov [r]: President of Uzbekistan [e]
- Juma Namangani [r]: Military leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; a former Soviet paratrooper who converted to Islam; killed by an airstrike at the Battle of Kunduz in 2001 [e]
- Mudjahedin [r]: A general term for Muslim "holy warriors", especially in Afghanistan [e]
- Afghanistan War (1978-92) [r]: A civil war in Afghanistan that matched the Soviet Union and its Afghan allies against a coalition of anti-Communist groups called the mujahideen, supported from the outside by the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. [e]
- Kyrgyzstan [r]: A landlocked central Asian nation, formerly part of the Soviet Union [e]
Subtopics
- Ferghana Valley [r]: An area where the borders of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan come together; stronghold of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan [e]
- Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase [r]: During the Afghanistan War (2001-), the period of combat by Afghan ground forces, with U.S. and British air & special operations support, which drove the Taliban and al-Qaeda from their bases, in October through December 2001 [e]
- Battle of Kunduz [r]: A battle in northern Afghanistan in November 2001, the climax of the northern campaign, which involved numerous Taliban prisoner deaths, in a possible atrocity and in a prison revolt [e]
Other related topics
- Ahmed Rashid [r]: Pakistani journalist and author, who has written highly regarded books on Central Asia, especially on the Taliban [e]
- Huzaifa Parhat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Osama bin Laden [r]: A radical jihadist who founded, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. [e]
- Sharia [r]: The Muslim system of law and rule of conduct inspired by the Qu'ran, the Sunna, traditional law systems, and the Hadiths. [e]
