Mujahideen

ISIS, a terrorist organization, now known as one of the most dangerous terrorist group ever to be create in the world is weakening each year according to IHS Conflict Monitor. The terrorist group commenced in 1999. They believe in the sacrification for Allah’s cause for a greater reward in the after-life. It considers its organization to be the “‘Islamic Caliphate’ or a theological empire” (Cassis, 2015).They control immense quantities of land in Western Iraq and Eastern Syria, as well as in…

Hamas — Islamic Resistance Movement Hama is a Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist organization of Palestinian nationality. The group was founded in 1987, and it’s original goal was to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the occupied Israeli territory of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Hamas’s headquarter is located in the Palestinian territory of Gaza. The group formed as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas is known for being the first…

Another deciding factor in the fall of the Shah’s rule during the revolutionary period was influenced by the reliance of the Shah on American intelligence and intellectual support. The effective mismanagement and misreading of the situation by the Central Intelligence Agency resulted in misperceptions on the Shah’s grip on power, as well as the true magnitude of Khomeini’s power, intention and influence on his followers both in Iran and in exile. Ofira Seliktar sums up the underestimation of…

single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir.” (Kite Runner,pg 146)(Khaled Hosseini) The soviet union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and stayed there until 1989 during that time the united states supported a group of fighters called the mujahideen. Then when the soviets left The united states also left and there was a big fight for power and land mass and so the taliban was created who then created al…

of her.” (Khadra 120). Amin speaks extensively about his concerns towards “sending people to die so others [could] live [freely] and [happily]? (Khadra 121) and all Yasser says is the importance of salvation. Amin also has an encounter with a “mujahideen” (Khadra 154) man. He is the “leader of {the} movement” (Khadra 157). The man speaks to Amin with true pride and intentions. The man has a bias and incredibly religious opinion towards Sihem’s suicide bombing, and tells Amin that, “[they] could…

This means admitting mistakes and realizing its shortcomings. If actions like the Vietnam War, arming the mujahideen or even using Latin America as a backyard for the CIA cannot be seen as mistakes then nothing can be learned from them. Furthermore, if the lessons learned are myopic, believing their greatest flaw to be a lack of militarization, then the lesson…

carefully for the chance to leave first”(Staples 151) Najmah also keeps her distance from Khalida because she still would feel bad because she knows she is gonna leave soon, she is also very worried that Akhtar would leave to fight the Taliban with the mujahideen before she has a chance to make her escape. Najmah fears this because then she would feel the need to stay and help Khalida with her sons.…

A Thousand Splendid Suns The story A Thousand Splendid Suns is set in Afghanistan late 1960 to early 2000’s during the fall of the soviets and the rise of the brutal Taliban. The novel follows the two main characters Laila and Mariam which follow their trials of life as a woman in Kabul. It begins with a young Mariam, who is forced into a marriage with a much older man. Mariam spends the next couple of years, having miscarriage after miscarriage and dealing with violent beatings at the hand of…

“We Win, They Lose”: How Reagan’s Foreign Policy Brought Down the Soviet Union The 1980s was a pivotal era in world history. After decades of America’s failed containment policies which strengthened and helped spread Communism across the globe, a change in direction was desperately needed. Ronald Reagan fundamentally shifted American foreign policy as president, which in turn, greatly influenced the collapse of the “evil empire” by the early nineties. Although the Reagan Administration did…

the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" . Its recent origins must be briefly explained by political unrest in Afghanistan and Iraq that started in the 1980's. The Soviet Union invades and occupies Afghanistan 1979. Muslim Afghan warriors called "mujahideen" rebels are the fighting Soviet Union incursion from 1979-1989. The United States was openly supporting and sponsoring these anti communist rebels. This is the rise and infancy of Osama bin laden , a Saudi, who becomes a freedom fighter and…