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IEA marks 33rd anniversary of the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan

15th February, 2022 · admin

Ariana: Today, 15 February 2022 marks the 33rd anniversary of the defeat and withdrawal of the former Soviet Army from Afghanistan. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Tuesday acknowleged the victory in a statement and said it was “a glorious day in the history of Afghanistan”. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in History, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Taliban | Tags: Soviet-Afghan War |
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Why Both Russians and Americans Got Nowhere in Afghanistan

9th July, 2021 · admin

Bloomberg: If you’re not going anywhere no matter what happens, or what price you’re forced to pay, you can outlast superpowers – The story of two superpower invasions of Afghanistan is all about the similarities that end up erasing the undeniable differences. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in History, Opinion/Editorial, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Soviet-Afghan War |
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Risk Of ‘Taliban Momentum’ As Dozens Of Afghan Districts Fall Since Outside Withdrawal Began

18th June, 2021 · admin

Frud Bezhan June 18, 2021 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty The Taliban has captured dozens of districts across Afghanistan in a lightning offensive since the start of the international military withdrawal on May 1. Afghan security forces have retreated or been forced from at least 30 districts in rural areas, the most territory the internationally recognized

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Posted in Al-Qaeda, Anti-Government Militants, History, ISIS/DAESH, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, Taliban, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani Government Security Failure, Soviet-Afghan War |
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Ghani: Soviet Lack of Plan, Not Pullout, Led to Civil War

14th February, 2021 · admin

Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday said that the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan was not the cause of the civil war; instead, he said, there wasn’t a plan for the country in the Soviet exit plan. Afghan leaders, said Ghani,  believe this lack of planning led the country into a civil war.

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Posted in History, Political News, Russia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ashraf Ghani, Soviet-Afghan War |
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Afghans Remember Soviet Invasion as ‘Dark Day’

26th December, 2020 · admin

Tolo News: Afghans this week marked the 41st anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, calling it a “dark day” in the modern history of the country that led to devastating wars in Afghanistan.  Afghan politicians said that a lack of national consensus and the unending interference of outsiders prolonged the war in the country

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Posted in History, Russia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Soviet-Afghan War |
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Rebel Poet’s Death Leaves 40 Years of Epic Afghan Work Unfinished

13th August, 2020 · admin · 20 Comments

NYT: He was a Marxist revolutionary and minister in Afghanistan’s short-lived communist government. But Sulaiman Layeq spent the last decades of his life writing an epic poem about an Islamist insurgent. Click here to read more (external link).  

Posted in History, Political News | Tags: Soviet-Afghan War, Suleiman Layeq |
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Afghans Mark 31st Anniversary of Soviet Withdrawal

15th February, 2020 · admin

Tolo News: Afghans across the country on Saturday marked the 31st anniversary of former Soviet Union troops withdrawal from the country. Meetings and gatherings were held in various parts of the country where the speakers paid homage to the “bravery” of those who fought against the then Soviet forces and forced them to end the

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Posted in History, Russia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Soviet-Afghan War |
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Poisonings, Assassination, And A Coup: The Secret Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan

27th December, 2019 · admin

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 27, 2019 By Frud Bezhan KABUL — Afghanistan’s communist President Hafizullah Amin was lying unconscious in his bed. A KGB agent who had infiltrated Amin’s staff as a cook had poisoned the president and his ministers during lunch at the Tajbeg presidential palace in Kabul. It was December 27, 1979.

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Posted in History, Russia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Hafizullah Amin, Soviet-Afghan War |
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Why Both Russia And America Failed In Afghanistan

19th December, 2019 · admin

The National Interest:  It’s well past time to let Afghans decide Afghanistan’s future without foreign “assistance.” During the early days after the 9/11 attacks and the initiation of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, it was relatively common to reference the woeful Soviet experience in that country. Here was a clear paradigm of what not to do

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Posted in History, Opinion/Editorial, Russia-Afghanistan Relations, Security, US-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Ahmad Shah Masood, Soviet-Afghan War |
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Decades on, Soviet Bombs Still Killing People in Afghanistan

15th December, 2019 · admin

AFP: Gholam Mahaiuddin sighs softly as he thinks of his 14-year-old son, who was killed in the spring by a bomb dropped last century in the hills of Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan. “We knew the mountain was dangerous,” said Mahaiuddin, who found his son’s remains after he didn’t come home one day. “We were aware

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Posted in Civilian Injuries and Deaths, History, Landmines | Tags: Soviet-Afghan War |
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