Mujahideen

biography...[he] left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan” (WashingtonsBlog). Like many other zealots, bin Laden felt it necessary to fight off a threat to the Muslim world and to preserve his culture. The group he joined, the Afghan Mujahideen, was known for pseudo-terrorist tactics and jihadist ideologies, and was one of bin Laden’s central inspirations for the formation of Al…

To what extent did the war in Afghanistan a catalyst to the dissolution of the Soviet Union? By: Amanda Luo Abstract The invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet forces began on December 24, 1979. The focus question of the essay asks “To what extent did the war in Afghanistan a catalyst to the dissolution of the Soviet Union?” To answer this question, the buildup of Soviet economic and social problems will be closely examined, the years preceding the Afghanistan war up to year of…

Terrorism did not stop in Paris. Russia was the next place where Soviet Union played a big role in transforming terrorism. In 1960s and 70s, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was established in Russia. Cold war basically meant the war between Soviet Union and United States. Soviet Union was the root of terrorism. In order to control over the power, terrorism was used as a weapon. The Soviet Union and its allies supported terrorism and applied political violence against the West Europe…

These ideals are also portrayed through one of the main characters, Rasheed. Throughout the novel, the history of Afghanistan unfolds alongside the characters lives’. The Mujahideen and Taliban were primarily in power as the story progressed. With these regimes came violence, the shaming of women, and other horrible activities like rape, looting, and rioting. Many stereotypes that exist in the west are reinforced through…

The Master Aggressor in the Cold War The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II primarily between the United States of America and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War was more about convincing other countries to turn Capitalist or Communist than fighting each other with weapons and items of mass destruction. However, the combat with weapons never really occurred in the United States of America or the Soviet Union during the Cold War.…

The forces at this time were called mujahideen (This is a term for fighters that are engaged in a jihad) they used standard guerrilla style tactics to fight back ageist the Soviets that controlled the major cities but not the countryside. The USSR responded but pouring more of their resources into Afghanistan. This proved to be an uphill battle for the USSR because the mujahideen was being heavily supported by other great powers with weapons, raining, and…

hidden under a long cloak, your eyes blocked out by mesh, your appearance anonymous to preserve your purity. Those who dared to show their bodies would be stoned or thrown in prison. This is the reality of the world that many women lived in under the Mujahideen occupation of Afghanistan. Khaled Hosseini’s portrayal of Afghanistan in 1000 Splendid Suns gives an insight into the mistreatment of women in a heavily misogynistic society. He tells the story of Mariam, who is fifteen when she is…

among her friends Princess Grace of Monaco, but she will be forever defined as the woman who charmed a womanizing senator into taking up the cause of the Afghani mujahideen (Charlie Wilson Biography). Charlie Wilson would leverage his position on the Defense Appropriations committee to secretly funnel billions of dollars to the mujahideen to help them fend off the Soviets, dealing a crippling blow to the Soviet Union, but also arming a new generation of revolutionaries in the middle east…

effectively uses the internet and other mediums to promote their extremist ideas and to spread the messages from their al-Qaeda preachers, in order to radicalize the youth and encourage them to participate in the local Jihad (Admin, 2016). 2. Jama'atul Mujahideen…

On February 22, 1980, two teams hit the ice in the Olympic Center Arena, now called Herb Brooks Arena, in the small town of Lake Placid, New York. The Soviet team, made up of active duty military members and world class athletes, took on the young American team, made up of mostly college kids and amateur hockey players. The Soviets struck first with a goal which was shortly answered by the United States team. The Soviets answered with another goal and as the period was about to end, the American…