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Parent topics
- Afghanistan War (1978-1992) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pakistan [r]: Country in southern Asia, established as a Muslim state split from India in 1947, bordering the Arabian Sea to the south, India to the east, Iran and Afghanistan to the west, and China to the north. [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]
- United States [r]: Constitutional republic in North America, has major land borders with Mexico and Canada. [e]
- Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. [e]
- Saudi Arabia [r]: A country in the Middle East, governed by a monarchy under Islamic law, which includes the most revered sites in Islam, and also dominates the world's oil economy. [e]
- General Intelligence Department (Saudi Arabia) [r]: The national intelligence service of Saudi Arabia [e]
Subtopics
- Burhanuddin Rabbani [r]: President of Afghanistan during the post-Communist period, 1992-1996; a Tajik affiliated with the Northern Alliance [e]
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar [r]: Afghan radical jihadist leader, not affiliated with the Taliban, at large in Afghanistan or Pakistan [e]
- Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin [r]: The faction of the Hezb-e-Islami party in Afghanistan led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, after the split with Yunis Khalis; not the current registered Hezb-e-Islami Decision Making Council [e]
- Abdul Rasul Sayyaf [r]: An Afghanistan politician and warlord, the only Pashtun leader in the Northern Alliance, and a Wahhabist favoring strict Islamic rule [e]
- Yunis Khalis [r]: An early leader of the mujahideen (1919-2006), whose stronghold was Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province. [e]
- Hezb-e-Islami Khalis [r]: The faction of the Hezb-e-Islami party in Afghanistan led by Yunis Khalis, after the split with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; not the current registered Hezb-e-Islami [e]
- Sibghatullah Mojaddedi [r]: Afghan political leader, in the Peshawar Seven then leading the National Liberation Front (Afghanistan) (Jabha-e Melli-ye Nijat-e Afghanistan); first post-Communist president in 1992; now leading the registered Afghanistan Republican Party (Hizbi Jamhori Kwahan) [e]
- Sayyid Ahmad Gailani [r]: Leader of Sufis in Afghanistan, a mujahideen member of the Peshawar Seven and leader of the National Islamic Front; pro-Saudi. [e]
- Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi [r]: (1921-2002), member of the Peshawar Seven, briefly a vice president in the mujahideen government, and then allied with the Taliban; headed Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami or Islamic Revolutionary Movement. [e]
- Peshawar [r]: Capital of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province near the Afghanistan border; in the midst of Taliban insurgency [e]
- Teheran Eight [r]: Add brief definition or description
