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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 2001
Page
5
In Afghanistan, the northeast remains under Northern Alliance influence while the Taliban controls the rest. Ongoing skirmishes cause a fluid boundary as forces clash and territorial control continually shifts.
The United Nations recognizes the Northern Alliance as Afghanistan's legitimate government, yet it now controls less than 10 percent of the country. Based in the northeast, this mujahedin faction, formed by ethnic and religious minorities, opposed the Taliban's rule and once ruled from 1992 to 1996 before infighting allowed the Taliban to seize power. Ahmed Shah Massood, its charismatic leader, was fatally wounded by a suicide bombing this September.
The Taliban, a Muslim extremist faction, rose to power in the 1990s with Pakistani backing and now control about 90 percent of Afghanistan including Kabul. Led by Mullah Mohammed Omar, they are believed to be partly funded by Osama bin Laden, who resides in the country.
Timeline chronicles Britain’s Afghan campaigns and the rise of Afghan regimes. It notes Noor Taraki’s death, Hafizullah Amin’s coup, Karmal’s Soviet backing, the mujahedeen era with foreign aid, the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, 1990s Taliban rise, Osama bin Laden links, and U.N. actions culminating in post 9/11 events.
Afghanistan in Southern Asia is landlocked with about 26.8 million people and 20 ethnic groups. The Taliban controls Kabul and roughly 90 percent of the country, with farming and livestock the main economy and opium production a major revenue source.
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