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Did Zolmy Khalilzad lobby for the Taliban in the 1990s?
Only Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recognized the legitimacy of the Taliban government in 1996-2001.
Many Afghans on Twitter and Facebook claim that Zolmy ...
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Was the U.S. planning an invasion of Afghanistan before 9/11? [closed]
Some sources seem to indicate that the U.S. was planning a military attack against Afghanistan before September 11.
Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American ...
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Is there any evidence for American atrocities during the Soviet-Afghan War? [closed]
I just spoke to someone that was convinced that US soldiers committed rapes against Afghan women during the Cold War.
Is there any truth to this?
Were there any US soldiers deployed to Afghanistan ...
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Did the Bush administration or their successors ever comment on the alleged Taliban warning about 9/11?
I was going through some old news reports and I was shocked to find a BBC report from 2002 that the Afghan Taliban warned the Americans and the UN of an impending attack on US by Al-Qaeda however ...
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Why did the Soviets refuse to help Nur Mohammed Taraki?
In 1970s Afghanistan was a communist state. The leader Nur Mohammed Taraki was much like a puppet of the Soviets. When the policies (education, land distribution etc.) initiated by the Soviets proved ...
