This was during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and relatively soon before the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1989. The Cold War was hottest during Reagan’s tenure, notwithstanding the Cuban Missile Crisis, and US hostility towards the Soviet Union went back to its revolution in..…

He was key for the great wars of our time the in the 1980s to drive Soviets out of Afghanistan that helped bring end to Cold War the largest and most action program in the history of CIA and the war with al- Qa'ida. ..…

But that war wasn’t limited only to Afghanistan. The alliance between the Western powers and their regional client states during the Cold War funded, trained, armed and internationally legitimized the Islamic jihadists all over the Islamic World. ..…

Looming betrayal: The case of the US, Afghanistan and Taliban . In 1979, the Cold War reached Afghanistan with the Soviet Union’s invasion. ..…

In 1988, during Cold War, while US-funded fought Soviet Union Afghanistan with the help of Pakistan, General Zia ul Haq's regime began training Islamists to launch jihad Kashmir. ..…

“The plague of international jihadism that the United States helped to unleash through its covert interventionism in Cold War-era Afghanistan,” Blumenthal warns, “was to expand and metastasize…” . ..…

I have watched players World War II, Korean War, Berlin Airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Israeli wars, Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and all the rest of it. ..…

I have watched players World War II, Korean War, Berlin Airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Israeli wars, Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and all the rest of it. ..…

I have watched players World War II, Korean War, Berlin Airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Israeli wars, Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and all the rest of it. ..…

The Soviets left Afghanistan.'[13] . . In the Wake of the Cold War . In the wake of the Cold War, the Central Asian region is not only strategic for its extensive oil reserves, it also produces three quarters of the World’s opium representing multibillion dollar revenues to..…

Empire’s deadly and destructive escapades in the Middle East and Afghanistan after it lost (temporarily) its official Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union, have been accompanied by a constant, never-ending spate of killing sprees here at home. . ..…

Thus, offshore balancers was correct for United States to World Wars I and II, and they endorsed the policy of containment during Cold War.. By letting the less, United States won Cold War part Soviet Union resources in places like Afghanistan and Angola one..…

In this context, CIA and MI6, at the peak of Cold War, had created World Anti-Communist League, used this organisation to supply the necessary funds for Afghanistan. ..…

I'm Joe Sestak, and I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years peace and war, from Vietnam and Cold War eras to Afghanistan and Iraq and the emergence of China, in the video.. ..…

American wars in both countries were offshoots of larger conflicts Vietnam was Cold War front and Afghanistan in former U.S. ..…

And then, of course, came 11, that staggering act of blowback  — in part from one of the great successes of CIA in Cold War, the decisive defeat of Red Army Afghanistan thanks to the funding and arming of set of Islamist militants, in. ..…

And then, of course, came 11, that staggering act of blowback in part from one of the great successes of CIA in Cold War, the decisive defeat of Red Army Afghanistan thanks to the funding and arming of set of Islamist militants, in. ..…

And then, of course, came 11, that staggering act of blowback — in part from one of the great successes of CIA in Cold War, the decisive defeat of Red Army Afghanistan thanks to the funding and arming of set of Islamist militants, in. ..…

Like the Great Game, the Cold War was now to be fought out on Afghan soil. ... The Cold War and the ensuing proxy war opened the floodgate of misery and civil war. ..…

With the Soviets now bogged down in Afghanistan, the Americans saw an opportunity to intervene in opposition to their Cold War nemesis one more time.   ... Some stirred-up Muslims or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?” ..…

In series of detailed case studies, Carson also discusses Soviet- American air-to-air combat during Korean War, covert operations during Vietnam War, and covert Afghanistan toward the end of Cold War. ..…

It's, fact, time to doubt the global of liberalism and democracy because post-Cold War era is the high point of in recorded human history. He blames United States for interventions Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria and says United States has waged seven wars since..…

Yet in the 30 years since the Cold War and the removal of its political and military rival, the Soviet Union, NATO has massively expanded territorially, changed its mission statement from a defensive to an aggressive posture and embarked on a series of wars, of which their intervention in Afghanistan..…

The U.S. has paid for its wars either through debt (World War II, Cold War, Afghanistan/Iraq), taxation (Korean War) or inflation (Vietnam). ..…

once Cold War ended, also bore the brunt of Afghanistan, in particular, the neighbouring countries faced the maximum fall outs.. ..…

Rubin is director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University and the author of Afghanistan from the Cold War . through the War on Terror. ..…

Cook explained that Al Qaeda, which means abbreviation of Arabic, was the database of the thousands of Islamist extremists, order to defeat Russians Afghanistan.. It's this third, neo- Cold War battle that made U.S policy makers decide to take the risk of arming Islamist rebels..…

For instance, Cold War saw both superpowers brought to their knees by rural farmers for Soviets, their Afghanistan against Mujahideen, and for United States, Vietnam War against Viet Cong.. ... Places such as Laos, Myanmar, Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Congo, Cuba, East Timor,..…

The relationship that emerges between Pakistan and Islam in Toor’s account is one in which the rise of a particularly vicious form of militant Islam is best understood in the context of Pakistan’s role as a frontline state in Afghanistan during the Cold War—and the vacuum..…

Raghavan's that the history of American South Asia must not be treated except his exclusive focus on India, Pakistan and Afghanistan re-emphasizes Cold War predilections and the aftermath thereof... ..…

In post-Cold War, U.S military was called upon to handle internal conflicts Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya and, throughout it all, Iraq and the results have proved dissatisfying.. ..…

Afghanistan’s importance in the Great Game during the Cold War . Geopolitical importance of Afghanistan for the US was underlined by the fact that most of the sophisticated weapons were brought to strengthen insurgency against Soviet occupation within a short span of..…

In post-Cold War, U.S military was called upon to handle internal conflicts Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Libya and, throughout it all, Iraq and the results have proved dissatisfying.. ..…

The military and CIA got new orders to pursue Qaeda and affiliated groups Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and several other African countries, parlaying what Bush administration called a generational war into guarantee that there would be no return to the austerity of the post- Cold War decade....…

Paul Koring has covered international affairs, including conflicts and crises from Cold War to Afghanistan, reporting from Europe, Middle East, South Asia and Africa. ..…

Second, it turns out to be difficult task, as we've seen Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other places. WALT The moment is the end of Cold War and the beginning of the era. ..…

In the wake of America's first Afghan War, Red Army, the stymied military forces of Cold War, Soviet Union, finally limped out of that bleeding wound — as Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev called Afghanistan. ..…

In the wake of America's first Afghan War, Red Army, the stymied military forces of Cold War, Soviet Union, finally limped out of that bleeding wound -- as Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev called Afghanistan. ..…

In the wake of America's first Afghan War, Red Army, the stymied military forces of Cold War, Soviet Union, finally limped out of that bleeding wound as Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev called Afghanistan. ..…

For Iran war is not glory, except horror, and whatever sacrifices the nation must make due to Western Cold war at least it's better than Hot War. Iran fights in places like Syria, Iraq Afghanistan because their allies, cousins and cultural-cousins being attacked, and also..…

In post-Cold War decades, the bombing nations have used cluster munitions Chechnya and Georgia, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Lebanon and Gaza. ..…

Congress authorized the use of force before each of the major wars since the cold war (the 1991 Gulf War, Afghanistan, and Iraq). ..…

In the years that followed the attack, the United States became intricately tied up to the fate of the Middle East, as the republic invaded densely-populated Iraq and sparsely-populated Afghanistan, and its operations there moved fully from the shadows of Cold War diplomacy and..…

In Europe, Russia has annexed Crimea, and U.S relations with Moscow have sunk to new lows since Cold War. U.S forces are still fighting Afghanistan and Iraq, with no in sight. ..…

In 1998, Senator Orrin Hatch, member of Senate Select Intelligence Committee who was involved in the decisions that led to aiding Afghanistan, said that even in hindsight those decisions were worth it in the interest of America's Cold War efforts. ..…

Afghanistan: The Way to Peace . Afghanistan from the Cold War Through the War on Terror by Barnett R. ..…

Libya represented major boost for Cold War alliance bogged down in Afghanistan, 12-year mission Kosovo and the seemingly never-ending anti-piracy operation off Somali coastline.. ..…

The only way to deal with terrorist network that is global is to go after it where it's, said Rumsfeld, just back from trip into Afghanistan on Sunday to rally American troops. Rumsfeld made clear that the long months of debate within NATO at Cold War's twilight over whether to..…