and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War. The term mujāhidīn (Arabic: مجاهدين) is used in a religious...

During the Soviet–Afghan War, there was a large amount of foreign involvement. The Afghan mujahidin were backed primarily by Pakistan, the United States...

Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (Arabic: مُجَاهِدِين, romanized: mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (Arabic: مُجَاهِد, romanized: mujāhid, lit. 'strugglers...

with the mujahidin 'will be killed. And our units in Afghanistan will help the Afghan forces to do it.'" Unlike Vietnam and Lebanon, Afghanistan had "absolutely...

seventies, al-Ghazali visited Pakistan and openly lent her support to the Afghan mujahidin, such as through an interview she gave to al-Jihad, a popular magazine...

The 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War, also known as the First Afghan Civil War, took place between the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the...

(ISI) to funnel foreign support for the mujahidin. The war also attracted Arab volunteers, known as "Afghan Arabs", including Osama bin Laden. After...

is an Afghan mujahidin battle song composed in 1919 by Ustad Qasim. It was adopted as the national anthem of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992...

notorious Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the supporters of the Afghan Mujahidin in the 1980s and the Taliban in the 1990s, violated the UN embargo...

universities until 1979, when he joined the Afghan mujahidin against the Soviet Union in the wake of the Afghan–Soviet War. In 1984, he co-founded Maktab...

of Afghanistan Humira Saqib Organisations: Women for Afghan Women Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan Afghan Women's Network Afghan Women's...

finances and Arab recruits for the Afghan Mujahidin. These networks included Mujahidin groups affiliated with Afghan commander Abd al-Rasul Sayyaf and...

to take it from Afghan Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in the 19th century. During the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Afghan mujahidin forces used Asmar...

for supporting Afghan anticommunist militants. China responded to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by supporting the Afghan mujahidin and ramping up...

1979, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Zia adopted an anti-Soviet stance and aided the Afghan mujahidin. He bolstered ties with China and the...

British attempted to subjugate Afghanistan but were repelled in the First Anglo-Afghan War. However, the Second Anglo-Afghan War saw a British victory and...

role in the formation of the Taliban, after having helped train the Afghan Mujahidin on behalf of the United States in the 1980s. "Colonel Imam" as Tarar...

the Pashtuns living in Pakistan, Nowruz in Afghanistan is celebrated as the Afghan New Year by all Afghan ethnicities. Another prominent Pashtun institution...

Troubles. China also supplied the Afghan mujahidin with Type 56 carbines during the early years of the Soviet–Afghan War. During the Dhofar Rebellion,...

role in training the Afghan mujahidin, in conjunction with Operation Cyclone to oppose the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan. While Pakistan was...

Najibullah from Afghanistan during his stay in the GDR, all Afghan mujahidin organizations in West Germany that operated in Afghanistan during the Soviet...

With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. ISBN 0-395-52132-7 Weisman, Steven R. "Rebel Rivalry is Hampering Afghan Talks"...

blew up the Rainbow Warrior ship. sent weapons and logistics to the Afghan mujahidin. The weapons sent consisted of several hundred AK-47 and several MILAN...

the Afghan mujahidin groups. He was actively involved with Afghan mujahidin groups, including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar until the end of the Soviet-Afghan war...

notorious Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the supporters of the Afghan Mujahidin in the 1980s and the Taliban in the 1990s, violated the UN embargo...

role of the Islamic movements considered conservative, such as the Afghan mujahidin." Khomeini's supporters and pro-government media in Iran also claim...

Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and overthrew Afghan president Mohammed Daoud Khan, who had himself taken power in the 1973 Afghan coup d'état and...

provided extensive financial and political support to the Afghan mujahidin fighting in the Soviet–Afghan War in the 1980s. During the 1990–1991 Gulf War, Pakistan...

conquest of Afghanistan, the Afghan people were multi-religious. Religious persecution, discrimination, and forced conversion of Hindus in Afghanistan perpetrated...

failed to increase the PDPA's legitimacy in the eyes of the Afghan people and the Afghan mujahidin rebels - he was widely seen as a Soviet puppet amongst the...