Jalalabad > Related Articles
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
- See also pages that link to Jalalabad or to this page.
Contents |
Parent topics
Subtopics
Other related topics
Bot-suggested topics
Auto-populated based on Special:WhatLinksHere/Jalalabad. Needs checking by a human.
- Afghanistan Civil War (1989-1994) [r]: The conflict in Afghanistan between the departure of Soviet forces in 1989 and the taking of control by the Taliban in 1992, with conflict among mudjahadeen factions [e]
- Afghanistan [r]: A Islamic republic in Central Asia, with an unstable but elected government; borders China, Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan [e]
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Battle of Tora Bora [r]: A battle of the Afghanistan War (2001-), in which allied special operations forces, principally using Afghan troops, attempted to kill or capture an escaping Osama bin Laden [e]
- Ghilzai [r]: One of the two major tribes of the Pashtun people, rivals of the Durrani who founded the monarchy and retain leadership roles [e]
- Islamic Party of Afghanistan [r]: A Pashtun-dominated Afghan political party, split into factions variously part of the government (Hezb-i-Islam) under Yunis Khalis versus Hezb-i-Islam Gulbuddin under Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (HIG), which cooperates with the Taliban [e]
- Kabul [r]: Capital of Afghanistan. [e]
- Khaldan training camp [r]: Located in southeast Afghanistan near Khost, an al-Qaeda training facility, apparently in weapons, tactics and explosives, directed by Abu Zubaydah. [e]
- Khyber pass [r]: A mountain pass on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. [e]
- Mudjahedin [r]: A general term for Muslim "holy warriors", especially in Afghanistan [e]
- Nangarhar Province [r]: A province on the east of Afghanistan, on the Pakistani frontier, which forms its south and eastern sides; its major internal boundaries are with Kabul Province on its west, Langhman and Kunar Provinces to the north; the capital is Jalalabad, nearest town to the Battle of Tora Bora [e]
- 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]
- Pashtun people [r]: An Eastern Iranian ethnic group primarily located in Southern Afghanistan in the Northwest Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Area and Balochistan Province of western Pakistan; language is Pashto [e]
- Provinces of Afghanistan [r]: There are 34 Provinces of Afghanistan. [e]
- Taliban [r]: Salafist Islamic militia, governing Afghanistan 1996–2001; still fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [e]
- Yunis Khalis [r]: An early leader of the mudjahedin (1919-2006), whose stronghold was Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province [e]
