An Afghan jihadist camp, or an Afghan training camp, is a term used to describe a camp or facility used for militant training located in Afghanistan. At...

War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Afghanistan–United States relations Afghanistan Papers Afghan War documents leak NATO logistics in the Afghan War US–Afghanistan...

Abdul-Salam Farag provide inspiration. The Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) is said to have "amplified the jihadist tendency from a fringe phenomenon to a major...

armed the Afghan Mujahideen), and various governments of Muslim-majority countries - whom they perceived as apostates from Islam. Jihadist and Salafist...

Arghawan, an Afghan who was the chief of external security at Camp Chapman, at the border between Miranshah, Pakistan, and Khost, Afghanistan.: 166–7  Arghawan...

The jihadist flag is a flag commonly used by various Islamist and fundamentalist movements as a symbol of jihad. It usually consists of the Black Standard...

came to Afghanistan during and following the Soviet–Afghan War to aid the war efforts of native Muslims in the DRA. Despite being called "Afghan" they were...

sites for these camps. Despite the destruction of many jihadist training facilities, numerous camps are known to still exist. Terrorist groups like the Islamic...

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The...

groups led by the Islamist Afghan fighters in the Soviet–Afghan War (see Afghan mujahideen). The term now extends to other jihadist groups in various countries...

terrorist group formed in Pakistan, and a militant and Islamist Salafi jihadist organisation. Described as one of Pakistan's "most powerful jihadi groups"...

also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun...

a regional branch of the Salafi jihadist group Islamic State (IS) active in South-Central Asia, primarily Afghanistan and Pakistan. ISIS–K seeks to destabilize...

withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. Afghan Civil War (1989–1992): Continuation of the conflict between the Afghan government and the Afghan mujahideen but...

edge in targeting Afghan military units. The deal also exacerbated the decline in morale of the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police, leading...

non-Afghan fighters (known as Afghan Arabs) for their cause. Following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, he continued to promote jihadist militancy...

Australian Muslim sometimes described as the "matriarch" of radical Salafi jihadist Islam in Australia. Hutchinson, a one time Presbyterian country girl "turned...

Islamist jihadist groups (including al-Qaeda), Massoud's position as a vocal critic of Pakistani support to the Taliban and interference in Afghan affairs...

Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet...

1979, the Pakistan–Afghan border became the center of the Deobandi jihadist movement's third wave, which was fueled by the Soviet–Afghan War. Under the patronage...

operations in its western neighbor, Afghanistan. ISI's covert support to militant jihadist insurgent groups in Afghanistan, the Pashtun-dominated former Federally...

Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, Pakistan was unable to persuade the Afghan Taliban to crack down on the TTP. The Afghan Taliban instead mediated...

The United States declared it an Islamic jihadist group in 1998 and bombed its training camps in Afghanistan. In December 1999, Harkat Islamic jihadis...

terrorist attacks in the United States. Saeed traveled to the Afghan capital, Kabul, to join the Afghan Taliban in their fight against US and NATO forces, remaining...

education was interrupted as he left for Afghanistan to fight alongside the Afghan Taliban and allied jihadist forces against Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern...

ethnic motives. Influenced by the success of the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviets in the Soviet–Afghan War, the ETIP (later become known as TIP in 2001)...

not subjected to Afghan law. "I can go to the Afghan people and argue for immunity for US troops in Afghanistan in a way that Afghan sovereignty will...

began to fight against Afghan National Security Forces, and has claimed to have set up training camps in northern Afghanistan. The group is named after...

Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state. Its origins were in the Jai'sh al-Taifa...

Deadly: Yassin's long history of terror, National Review, March 26, 2004 Jihadist or Victim: Ex-Detainee Makes a Case, The New York Times, June 15, 2006...