United States Army Into Afghanistan

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.

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

Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden by secretly training and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan, and also armed the fighters with weapons and top-secret intelligence from Pakistani services. The mujahidin fighters were originally trained to fight against the Soviet Union, led by their commander Osama Bin Laden, in a proxy war. Reagan wanted to continue the proxy war but the Soviet Union

When the soviet union invaded afghanistan the war lasted for 9 years 1979-1989. Between 1 million to 1.5 million people were killed in that war and millions of people when to a diffrent countries such as pakistan or iran as refugees. The United States supported Afghanistan by supplying arms to the Mujahadeen. Ronald Reagan sent billions of dollars to the Mujahadeen so he can help Jihad against the Soviet Union. “Reagan believed this defense shield could make nuclear war impossible. Reagan deployed CIA special activities division paramilitary officers to train, equip and lend the Mujahideen battalion against the Soviet army”. Reagan’s objective was winning the Cold War and the rollback of communism. The United States also offered financial and

To begin, Mujahidin was a rebel group during the 1980s that Ronald Reagan had funded. During the war the United States gave financial as well as military assistance to Mujahidin (Davis Moorhead). A reason why the U.S. helped Mujahidin was because of the relationship that they had with Great Britain. The Soviets had supported the Afghanistan government and Britain was also supporting the Mujahidin (Davis Moorhead). The main reason why the U.S. got involved was to support Mujahidin with military support. Mujahidin had then lead to the well know terrorist group

There was an extreme group called Afghanistan’s government, Also known as The Taliban. They were protecting

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

The Taliban, also known as The Afghan Taliban, is a terrorist organization that occupies large areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban rose to power after the Soviet Union withdrew in 1989. By 1996, an extremist group by the name The Taliban had established themselves, enforcing a rather strict and brutal for of Sharia law. This was the beginning of what would seem to be a lifetime of horror for much of Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the United States and the United Nations.

The United States briefly supported the Taliban, hoping it would restore order in the war-ravaged country after Soviet war in Afghanistan. Taliban movement traces its origin to the Pakistani-trained mujahideen in northern Pakistan during Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

Although the European countries were not nearly as alarmed as the United States, the Soviet’s “friends” like the Italian PCI, and the Warsaw Pact countries were concerned about the polarizing effect on East-West relations and the collapse of détente which brought tension among them. Damage to the prestige of the Soviets within the Third World was evident by the fact that Arab states and traditional allies like Iraq provided resources and military assistance to the mujahdin, who was actively fighting against the Soviets. A vigorous covert aid program consisting of money, military equipment, and even anti-aircraft missiles to the Afghanistan resistance groups were funded and supported by the USA, Britain, France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and China . The United Nations attempted a diplomatic solution with the key parties as early as 1981 and throughout the nine years of the conflict; however, the Soviets did not withdraw from Afghanistan until February of 1989. A major factor keeping the Soviets from a diplomatic solution was the American support of the Afghan

The Taliban emerged as a rebellious movement after the invasion of the soviet troupes in Afghanistan. Despite the Pakistan and the U.S providing the soviet troupes with adequate military and financial support, the Mujahedeen were able to inflict massive losses to the foreign troupes. During the wars between the Mujahedeen and the Soviets, about fifteen thousand soviet soldiers perished as a result of war inflicted deaths. The soviet troupes left Afghanistan in the year 1979 following a victorious defeat by the Mujahedeen fighters, and Ahmed Shah Massoud assumed power three years after the soviet’s departure. Ahmed captured Kabul and overpowered President Sayid Mohammed Najibullah’s

After WWII the U.S and the U.S.S.R. used a great deal of economic assistance to compete for influence among the world’s nations with an almost covert passion if there is such a thing. Due to the fact that the Americans had recently established military ties with Pakistan, Afghanistan immediately turned to the Soviets in 1954. In 1964 Afghanistan’s leader Zahir Shah brought together a grand council that would provide a representational government. He was later overthrown by his cousin Mohammed Daoud. Daoud aligned himself with Soviet Party. In 1967 the same split in two factions that became dangerous

In an age when mankind has the ability to completely annihilate itself through nuclear combat, war can be a more terrifying and powerful thought than ever before. Unfortunately, because of the extent of the actions that the Taliban has committed against both America and its own followers, the United States’ war against terrorism seems to be a necessity. I do feel, however, as if there are many things that can be done by the American government in the near future to peacefully approach a more civil and politically involved Afghanistan. Although my feelings on a war against terrorism are mixed, I do feel that significant actions must be taken in order to restrict the spread of

On May 25th, 1997, Pakistan recognized the Taliban as the Government of Afghanistan, the following day, Saudi Arabia also made this recognition. In August of 1998, the United States had become suspicious of the Taliban forces, and the U.S. fired five missals at Afghanistan because of suspicions that the Taliban was behind the bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa.

The Islamic fundamentalist group known as the Taliban continues to act as a dominant group in Afghanistan even 14 years after the invasion by the US. The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when an invasion led by the US collapsed the regime due to the Taliban providing security to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, the founder of the al-Qaeda, which was the organization responsible for 9/11. As the war in Afghanistan continues today, the conflict continues to grow from bad to worse, as the Taliban control the most