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Parent topics
- 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]
- Inter-Services Intelligence [r]: The military intelligence and covert action organization of Pakistan; historically contained strong Islamist elements but also concerned with India-Pakistan security issues [e]
- Peshawar Seven [r]: Coalition of seven Sunni mujahideen groups resisting the Soviets in the Afghanistan War (1978-92), assembled by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and with a sanctuary in Peshawar. [e]
- Hezb-i-Islam [r]: Islamic Party of Afghanistan, although there are three claimants to the name [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 but is also negotiating with the Karzai government [e]
- Hezb-i-Islam Gulbuddin [r]: The Afghan and Pakistani insurgent organization, a faction that broke from the Islamic Party of Afghanistan, controlled by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; involved in talks with the Karzai Government [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]
- Durrani [r]: One of the two major tribes of the Pashtun people [e]
Subtopics
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Abdullah Azzam [r]: A Salafist legal scholar and jihadist, who formed the Services Office supporting the Afghanistan War (1978-92) with Osama bin Laden, one of the organizations that formed al-Qaeda [e]
- Abdul Qadir [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Abdul Qadir (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Ahmad Shah Massoud [r]: Tajik Military leader of the Northern Alliance against the Taliban in Afghanistan, and a noted fighter against the Soviet-supported government as well as the Soviets; assassinated by al-Qaeda on 9/9/2001; known as the Lion of the Panjshir [e]
- Federally Administered Tribal Area (Pakistan) [r]: A region of Pakistan that is outside the regular system of Pakistani provincial government, involving a combination of tribal leaders and "agents" of the national government; the subdivisions are called "agencies", not "provinces"; from an international standpoint, it is fairly lawless [e]
- CIA activities in the Middle East and South Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Osama bin Laden [r]: Radical jihadist who, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. [e]
- Taliban and the present Afghan government [r]: Explorations, by the present government of Afghanistan, to bring Taliban elements into a national unity government [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 mujahideen (1919-2006), whose stronghold was Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province. [e]
- Abdul Rashid Dostum [r]: Afghan Uzbek warlord who had been the dominant figure in the north, although he may have gone into exile in Turkey [e]
- Abdul Haq (Afghan leader) [r]: A Northern Alliance leader who was killed in 2001 trying to lead an uprising against the Taliban in Afghanistan. [e]
- Jalalabad [r]: The capital of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. [e]
- Haqqani network [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Khost Province [r]: A province of Afghanistan, on the border with Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Area [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]
- Northern Alliance [r]: A military alliance against the Taliban in Afghanistan's civil war, which, with U.S. assistance, drove it from power in the Afghanistan War (2001-) [e]
- Salafism [r]: A strict branch of Sunni Islam, dedicated to the restoration of the Caliphate, often by means of armed jihad [e]
- Sayyid Qutb [r]: Born in 1906, radicalized in 1951, and executed in 1966, an influential theorist of Salafist revolutionary Islam; considered one of the two spiritual fathers of al-Qaeda and the mentor of Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
- U.S. intelligence and transnational crime and drugs [r]: Activities of the United States intelligence community that are concerned with transnational crime and the drug trade, beyond the jurisdiction of domestic law enforcement [e]
