Taliban insurgency

the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 (Fall_of_Mazari_Sharif, 2015). The combined forces of Northern Alliance U.S. Army Special Forces, supported by the U.S Air Force and U.S. Naval Air Forces (Gutkin, 2001) fought against the Taliban, al-Qaeda forces, led by Osama bin Laden, and Pakistani volunteers for the control of Mazari Sharif. This battle took place on November 9 - 10, 2001. This Allied victory secured a foothold and opened the door for the northern invasion route…

witnessed for the first time what the Taliban had done. This was where Farid actually told Amir “You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it.” The final reason for Farid’s words was Amir’s reaction to Afghanistan when he arrived there. When Amir saw the violence in Afghanistan he was horrified. Amir had never seen his country look like it did because he was never present to the violence. Farid became angered when he saw that Amir was overwhelmed by the Taliban because Farid had…

Discuss the creation and evolution of al-Qaeda (25 pts.) The Creation of al-Qaeda officially begun during the Cold war around 1979 when Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet Union. This became an issue for the United States, and the goal was to come up with a plan that involved pushing the Soviet union of out Afghanistan. The outcome of this event leads to the development of an organization for the international Muslim regiment that was formed to rebel against the invasion and eventually get…

Afghanistan: The Face of Women’s Oppression Fighting for women’s rights is important because women deserve same right to chose education, healthcare, and their course of life. Living in a society where women must go out with a male escort, is discriminatory. Women must get power and sustainability as men. This is my motivation for this topic. For example, BBC reported that a mob of men in Afghanistan murdered Farkhunda. However, it wasn 't the solution to kill her; it was not justice for her.…

Refugee crisis is a severe setback in the current era. But protracted refugee crisis raises the question why people shift from refugee to protracted refugee status. One acquires this status when 25,000 or more refugees from the same nationality remain in exile for five years or more than that in a given asylum country, according to the Office of the United Nations, High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This paper will analyze by comparing and contrasting the data’s protracted refugees which…

Should the United States Continue Its Use of Drone Strikes Abroad? Remotely-controlled aircraft, otherwise known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones can be equipped with bombs and missiles for attack missions. The original drone, the MQ-1 Predator and the upgraded MQ-9 Reaper are the two most commonly used unmanned aerial vehicles. They are cherished for their ability to fly thousands of feet over a target for long durations of time and relay high-resolution, live reconnaissance. In…

Al Qaeda may seem like a large organized terrorist network from a perspective provided by the media, however their victories did not come without countless defeats. The blame for many of these failures seems to rest solely on the group’s leadership due to many mistakes (McCabe, 2010, p. 61). Conversely, during expansionist efforts the group worked with numerous affiliates that did not always follow the direction that Al Qaeda leadership demanded (Lahoud et al., 2012, p. 1). Nobody denies that…

The author of The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, Narja Mazari escaped from the Taliban to Australia to only be treated like a prisoner in a detention centre in Woomera. The camp of Woomera is in the southern states of Australia. Mazari then met with Robert Hillman who helped him write up Mazari’s autobiography. The reader can tell that the author is in a “prison-like” centre by the way he describes the setting. The use of language informs the reader about the author about Mazari’s attitudes and…

Throughout the book, family and friends did many sacrifices and jeopardized their lives for each other. An example is when Paravana ran away from the taliban. She showed courage because if the taliban caught up to her she could have faced twice the consequences or worse. Another example is when Mrs.Weera decided to walk home with Parvana because if the taliban would have noticed them both of them would have gotten punished because Parvana wasn't covered completely. Also when Parvana found Homa…

around like you are nothing but garbage. This is what it was like to live in Pakistan and Afghanistan when the Taliban came to power. In reality, they were very controlling and cruel and this was portrayed very accurately in the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples. Najmah and her family, as well as Nusrat, are treated unfairly and are largely affected by the Taliban in the story. People in the real world who lived in Pakistan and Afghanistan during the Taliban’s reign were…