Russia: Putin commits CSTO to close work with Afghanistan
At the plenary session of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Moscow Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said collaboration must be t...
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MARINES IN AFGHANISTAN Defend Patrol Base Lambadand!
Afghan soldiers along with U.S. Marines from Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, engage the enemy near Patrol Base Lambadand in the Trek Nawa ...
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Airborne Field Artillery in Afghanistan! M777 and M119 Howitzers in Action!
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Taliban in Afghanistan
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Ahmad Shah DURRANI unified the Pashtun tribes and founded Afghanistan in 1747. The country served as a buffer between the British and Russian Empires until it won independence from notional British control in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan communist regime, touching off a long and destructive war. The USSR withdrew in 1989 under relentless pressure by internationally supported anti-communist mujahedin rebels. A series of subsequent civil wars saw Kabul finally fall in 1996 to the Taliban, a hardline Pakistani-sponsored movement that emerged in 1994 to end the country's civil war and anarchy. Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, a US, Allied, and anti-Taliban Northern Alliance military action toppled the Taliban for sheltering Osama BIN LADIN. The UN-sponsored Bonn Conference in 2001 established a process for political reconstruction that included the adoption of a new constitution, a presidential election in 2004, and National Assembly elections in 2005. In December 2004, Hamid KARZAI became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan and the National Assembly was inaugurated the following December. KARZAI was re-elected in August 2009 for a second term. Despite gains toward building a stable central government, a resurgent Taliban and continuing provincial instability - particularly in the south and the east - remain serious challenges for the Afghan Government.
Southern Asia, north and west of Pakistan, east of Iran
33 00 N, 65 00 E
total: 652,230 sq km
land: 652,230 sq km
water: 0 sq km
total: 5,987 km
border countries: China 91 km, Iran 921 km, Pakistan 2,670 km, Tajikistan 1,357 km, Turkmenistan 804 km, Uzbekistan 144 km
0 km (landlocked)
none (landlocked)
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CIA - The World Factbook: Afghanistan