The Soviet-Afghan War raged for nine years and is considered a major part of the overarching Cold War between the US and its allies, and the Soviet Union. A major faction was the Afghan Mujahideen - ...

Indeed, the Soviet experience after withdrawing from Afghanistan might have provided ... support–that there were a handful of Arab mujahideen who later went to Chechnya–there would have ...

With the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Carter administration ... that authorized the supply of weapons and training for the mujahideen. The first batch of weapons arrived in Pakistan in ...

40 years ago, the Soviet Union eliminated a communist rival from power in Afghanistan ... The continuing role of mujahideen leaders in Afghan politics puts the country’s future at risk.

President Barack Obama not so long ago referred to Afghanistan as ... by arming and funding the mujahideen guerrillas, who effectively pushed back against Soviet control of their country but ...

As Afghanistan still struggles to ... in fighting in fierce factional in Kabul (1995) Mujahideen guerrillas emerge from cover following Soviet air bombardment, in the mountains of Parwan (1986 ...

Afghanistan. 1986. From the border towards Kabul on a mountain road moving column of Soviet military armored ... This is well aware of the Afghan Mujahideen and under the leadership of American ...