Afghanistan After The Soviet Union

The Taliban were a specific group of mujahideen who eventually took over Afghanistan. They were formed in the early 1990s with the backing of the CIA in the U.S. and the ISI in Pakistan. It’s mostly compromised of Pashtuns, who are the dominant ethnic group in most of southern and eastern Afghanistan. This was a major problem for Farah, her family, and some of their neighbors, because the Taliban soon started drafting young men for their army, and they were prejudiced towards their ethnic group, the Hazaras. Trying to avoid their sons being killed when drafted, they fled to Pakistan, leaving the rest of them to survive under the rule of the Taliban. But this only added to the problem they were in, because one of the Taliban’s laws they had to follow was that all women must be escorted by a man in public or else they would be beaten to death. Thankfully Farah and her mother managed to find that they could pay a man to be their escort so they could cross the Afghan border into Pakistan. Once they got to a city called Quetta, they found work and housing with a family there, and soon after there was news that certain Afghan refugees in Pakistan were being sent to the U.S. Farah and her mother applied and got in, but soon came 9/11 and the project

The Taliban are an Islamic political movement. They ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. When they took over, several new laws, rules, and restrictions were made.

The Taliban are a part of history and people should be aware of who they are and what they do. The Taliban has evolved over the years and unfortunately have grown stronger over the years. They started off as a group of students and it is sad to know that these students who could have started with a good future ended up being a part of a terrorist group. They think they are doing right because they may read the Quran but they only focus on the words and passages they want to hear and say to defend their terrorist group without reading the passage or verse fully and trying to understand the real words of Allah. The Taliban have been around for a long time and as a result the Taliban havetaken over territory such as Afghanistan and many others. One of the territories the Taliban has is Afghanistan and the government is seen as corrupted because they help the Taliban. Corruption may exist anywhere but would the Afghan government be supporting the Taliban with weapons because they want to or because of fear?

For over 2 centuries, Afghanistan has known virtually no time without war. Beginning around 326 B.C. with the conquests of Alexander the Great, to the Persians, British, Russians and most recently, America and our NATO allies, Afghanistan has been cultivated into the country that it is today through a trial by fire. Regardless of this relentless onslaught of foreign military power, the Afghan people have tirelessly defended their homeland with no outside power ever being able to subdue them completely. Following the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1989, the country fell into civil war, torn even further apart by fiercely dedicated tribal warlords. This power vacuum led to the rise of a group called the Taliban. Led by a one eyed man

One of the most radical religious groups in the world today are known as the Taliban. The Taliban is a “fundamentalist Muslim group that controlled much of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001” (Maley NP). The Taliban took power after the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. When the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, the Taliban rose to power and took much control of the country. The Taliban leader is Mullah Mohammad Omar. The Taliban in Afghanistan are an Islāmic group, that uses harsh rules against Afghanistan’s women and helped attacked the United States.

Problems that the Taliban have caused, in real life, have impacted the way that many innocent people in various Arab countries used to live--long ago, life was delectable to many. People lived in a state of tranquility, and could live accompanied by one word: freedom. However, later on, and not long ago, the Taliban created a set of strict, over-the top rules that have not only completely

The Taliban’s are Student’s of Islamic Knowledge Movement who ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001; they came to power after a long Civil war with the Soviet forces. They held 90% of the country and followed a policy that included the treatment of women and terrorist activities. Their power came to end after September 11, 2001 (opendemocray). The movie allows us to experience another culture; women had no rights to work or leave their home alone. At the very beginning of the movie hundreds of woman, protest their freedom, for their rights to work. It was interesting to see women willing to sacrifice their lives in order to have equality; they were fearless, despite knowing the consequence of death or imprisonment.

The situation in Afghanistan actually began in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded their country. The United States funded money to the "mujahedin," or holy warriors, in the name of stopping communism. From this support, Afghanistan was able to defeat the Soviet Union in 1989. Yet the country became very unstable after the war. Political power was fluctuating often and leaders came in and out of power rapidly. Farmers resorted to growing many drugs such as poppies and marijuana and sold them around the globe. Cities were annihilated. Over five million Afghanis fled to other countries in search of a better life. When the Afghanis turned to the United States for help in rebuilding our country, we refused. This caused great anger amongst the Afghani people directed toward the United States. This also lead to Mullah Mohammod Omar, the current leader of Afghanistan, to form a ground of men to "rebuild" his country. They are now known as the Taliban. Omar's personal description is, "A simple band of dedicated youths determined to establish the laws of God on

Taliban means students and this name was chosen to symbolize how they were going to learn from their ancestors and take back their land and prevent it from being taken again. THey then engaged in Jihad, or “Holy war”, to take back afghanistan. Not long after the assault began they regained control of most of the upper part of afghanistan. Other factions had also risen and a war of multiple fronts started and thats how it was so quick to regain control. The area of Afghanistan was once again split into 3 major territories and completely obliterated. The Taliban then became a superpower, in relative terms to its opponents, and began to take control of all the Afghanistan territory. Uniting it, but at a cost. It promised to have a strict interpretation of the Quran, the Islamic holy book. But soon became corrupt and only became abusive to women and children and severely disadvantaged the males. To fund this foul government they allowed terrorists to take refuge, one such group was al-Qaeda. Headed by Osama bin-Laden, he began to lead the Taliban government from behind the scenes and he, along with interpretations from the Quran, was that the

The Taliban founded in the year of 1994 by a man named Mullah Mohammad Omar. It originated in Afghanistan and was created with the purpose of destroying the foreign military in Afghanistan and to reestablish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under strict Sharia Law ("Taliban Narrative"). The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan would then be brought back into play in the year of 1996. However, the event that led to the creation of the Taliban happened almost a decade earlier in the year of 1979. In 1979 the Soviets began invading Afghanistan, they were there for about ten years and then withdrew late in the year of 1988 and early 1989. Mujahedeen forces then removed the soviet government in the year of 1992 and led to rivalry between groups. A year

If nothing else, the Taliban has shown that they will not go down without a fight. They always seem to get back up and continue to cause damage in any form possible no matter what they are faced with. Undoubtedly, they have evolved as a terrorist group and are likely to continue to evolve as the world around them does the same. Every time anyone thinks that they have seen the fall of the

The Taliban are an Islamic fundamentalist group, and they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. They are extremely ruthless, and we have many different glimpses of this in the book. “So [the Talibs] took him to the street...and ordered him to kneel...and shot him in the back of the head. Farzana came screaming and attacked them...shot her too. Self-defense, they claimed later” (Hosseini 219). In this quote, the Talib officials shot Hassan and his wife for absolutely no reason, and claimed it was self defense. The author, Hosseini, gives us the audience a completely raw, haunting portrait of the Taliban and of their effect on the people living in Afghanistan at the

learned about the Taliban growing up, I know that they are terrible, but to read from this perspective it

The Afghans were glad to have the Taliban in the beginning because the Taliban got their start as men started bringing in cash to the Afghans fighting the Russians.

The Taliban group is a group of men who formed in 1994 in the country of