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...
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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) Afghanistan–United States relations Afghanistan Papers Afghan War documents leak NATO logistics in the Afghan War US–Afghanistan...
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Salafi jihadism (redirect from Salafist jihadist)
armed the Afghan Mujahideen), and various governments of Muslim-majority countries - whom they perceived as apostates from Islam. Jihadist and Salafist...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The...
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sites for these camps. Despite the destruction of many jihadist training facilities, numerous camps are known to still exist. Terrorist groups like the Islamic...
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Mujahideen (redirect from Jihadists)
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...
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Lashkar-e-Taiba (redirect from Lashkar-e-Tayyiba training camp)
terrorist group formed in Pakistan, and a militant and Islamist Salafi jihadist organisation. Described as one of Pakistan's "most powerful jihadi groups"...
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Taliban (redirect from Afghan Taliban)
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...
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Islamic State – Khorasan Province (category Jihadist groups in Afghanistan)
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...
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Fall of Kabul (2021) (redirect from Fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan)
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...
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withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. Afghan Civil War (1989–1992): Continuation of the conflict between the Afghan government and the Afghan mujahideen but...
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Rabiah Hutchinson (category Australian expatriates in Afghanistan)
Australian Muslim sometimes described as the "matriarch" of radical Salafi jihadist Islam in Australia. Hutchinson, a one time Presbyterian country girl "turned...
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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (category Salafi jihadists)
non-Afghan fighters (known as Afghan Arabs) for their cause. Following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, he continued to promote jihadist militancy...
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Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud (category Terrorist incidents attributed to Afghan jihadist groups)
Islamist jihadist groups (including al-Qaeda), Massoud's position as a vocal critic of Pakistani support to the Taliban and interference in Afghan affairs...
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Haqqani network (category Jihadist groups in Afghanistan)
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...
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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...
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operations in its western neighbor, Afghanistan. ISI's covert support to militant jihadist insurgent groups in Afghanistan, the Pashtun-dominated former Federally...
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Pakistani Taliban (category Jihadist groups in Afghanistan)
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...
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Jaish-e-Mohammed (category Jihadist groups in Jammu and Kashmir)
The United States declared it an Islamic jihadist group in 1998 and bombed its training camps in Afghanistan. In December 1999, Harkat Islamic jihadis...
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Hafiz Saeed Khan (category Salafi jihadists)
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...
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education was interrupted as he left for Afghanistan to fight alongside the Afghan Taliban and allied jihadist forces against Ahmad Shah Massoud's Northern...
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Turkistan Islamic Party (category Jihadist groups in Afghanistan)
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)...
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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...
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Imam Bukhari Jamaat (category Jihadist groups in Syria)
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...
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Islamic State (redirect from 2014 Jihadist Insurgency in Iraq and Syria)
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...
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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...
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