Mujahideen

Soviets invaded. Meanwhile the Soviets were taking control of cities, larger towns and major garrisons there were guerrilla forces known as freedom fighters, or the Mujahideen who fought back and were generally successful at avoiding the soviet attacks when they wanted to. Eventually the war settled down to a stalemate, the Mujahideen were able to fight back against the Soviets, however they were uncoordinated and lacked quality arms and were not able to decisively win against their enemies…

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini displays the lives of two women living in war-torn Afghanistan, where status means everything and freedom is not an option. Their lives were changed due to The Battle of Kabul, a war fought between the Mujahideens and the Taliban. The two militia groups were both fighting for power, destroying Kabul as the war progresses. Creating new laws and regulations for the people of Kabul. Women were striped of their rights, but two stood out. Mariam and Laila,…

arms to the Mujahideen… which distributed it to seven major Islamist factions… The religious leaders of the factions thus gained unprecedented political power, undermining the authority of tribal and village leaders,” (Document #10). The Mujahideen was a group of rebel fighters who fought communists and other non-Muslims. Mujahideen is the plural of Mujahid which means “one who engages in jihad”. Jihad means to strive, to struggle, to strain, and to endeavor. Although the Mujahideen were…

In the late 1970’s there was a hot bed of political activity throughout the world, which fed into the Cold War. The Soviet-Afghanistan War was a battlefield in which the Cold War super powers never faced each other but fought each other through different avenues like many other conflicts. Years earlier, the American military fought a counterinsurgency in Vietnam in which the Soviets helped the North Vietnamese fight the Americans. Even though the Americans won the major battles within the war…

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni is a novel based on the last 3 decades of Afghan history. It is a chronicle of the volatile events of Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post- Taliban rebuilding that puts the nation through many adversities. This presentation focuses on the time period when the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is born, in September 1996, and the impacts of the Taliban rule after this. So a tiny recap for how the Taliban reign came to be.…

guerilla mujahideen forces that quickly escalated into a civil war. The Soviet Union sent thousands of advisors in support of the PDPA government and soon established a soviet-organized government…

As we all know there has been some dramatic events occurring in Afghanistan, there is a brave group of Rebels named the Mujahideen that are fighting for their rights to have a capitalistic nation. They are up against the world power soviet union and although it’s a long shot they are laying their lives on the line so their children can grow up in a great nation. This is an amazing group of people, much like the American people in the Revolutionary war. We must help this brave group of people!…

of power was left behind. During the Afghan-Soviet war, the United States funded billions of dollars to the Mujahideen to prevent Afghanistan from becoming communist. In the 1990s, members of the Mujahideen formed the Taliban to impose stability and rule of law. Osma Bin Laden, the founder of Al Qaeda, was once backed by the United States because of his role in supporting the Mujahideen. However, his pan-Islamic ideologically led to his hatred toward the United States. The information that…

Chechnya The ethnic-nationalist Chechen conflict was made more complicated and deadly with the introduction of Arab mujahideen. Emboldened by the Soviet-Afghan War, mujahideen flocked to Chechnya; bringing with them Wahhabism as well as criminal and terroristic behavior like drug smuggling, kidnapping and suicide bombing. The modern conflict has spanned from 1994 to the present, covering two official wars and numerous terror attacks against military, political and civilian targets. Driven by a…

they were successful, but they later have been convicted of being responsible for multiple suicide bombings and other attacks. Back in 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In addition to, the United States decided to fund troops called the Mujahideen, known as the Holy Warriors, to restore order throughout Central Asia. In 1989, the Taliban was created by the Pakistani…