History of Afghanistan By: lack and lank

Afghanistan Civil War 1989-1992

● The Afghan civil war started in 1989 after the end of the Soviet war

● Shortly after the civil war the Taliban took control of the country in 1994

● Taliban organized camps for radicalized Muslims lead by Osama bin laden

Terrorists

● Terrorists in Afghanistan organized a series of attacks on different countries and even their own country

● Afghanistan became a lead country in harboring terrorists

● Main country in the war of the Middle East ● Massive human rights violations

9/11

● Al-Qaeda group in Afghanistan fly planes into twin towers and pentagon killing thousands of American citizens lead by Osama Bin Laden

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The Afghanistan War

● After 9/11 troops were put into the country to stop the taliban militarily

● Many Afghans actually wanted the U.S. in the country to help stop the taliban

2009

● In 2009, Barack Obama drastically raised the amount of troops in Afghanistan

● With 496 casualties, 2010 was by far the deadliest year for U.S. troops fighting a war in Afghanistan

● One American Killed Every 18 Hours● Almost 17 times as many U.S. troops were killed

in the Afghanistan war in 2010 as were killed in 2002

● On August 6th,2011, American forces suffered their single deadliest day.

● Taliban killing 30 Americans and 8 Afghan people.

● From 2012-2014 taliban had a new one-eyed leader named Mullah Muhammed Omar

● Taliban receiving videos of U.S. soldiers urinating on Taliban corpses.

Works Cited

Afghanistan. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Google. Web. 12 Nov. 2014. Afghanistan Online. San Ramon, n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2014. <http://www.afghan-web.com/about/contactus.html>.

Country Reports. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2014.

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