- Afghanistan Afghanistan, remote and mountainous, is a tribally-based society that has seen many conflicts. The terrible civil war of recent times began in 1979. Shortly after, the Soviet army intervened to prop up a friendly regime. For nearly a decade, the conflict pitted Islamic rebels, backed by the West, against the Soviet forces and their local allies. Osama bin Laden served in the ...www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/afgindx.htm
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