Afghan War , the history of Afghanistan , the internal conflict that began in 1978 between

guerrillas and the Afghan communist government due to inner politics . Soviet Called it
“Legitimate Supporting Intervention” and West called in “Invasion . In 1979, ,the Soviet army
invaded Afghanistan to support its communist government after a year of coup . It fought a
resistance movement -known as mujahideen – that was supported by the US ,Pakistan , China
and Saudi .

.December 1979,700 troops entered Afghanistan . Amin lost control and requested soviet help
due to inner conflicts of PDPA executed 10.000-27,000 murdered . They killed Amin took key
positions and elected Parcham - Babark kamal as a president and he officially announced for
military assistance.

In 1980 , foreign ministers of 34 countries condemn and UNO resolution

adopted . Afghanistan had been in a state of almost constant war for 20 years even before the
US invaded .In 1989, Soviet troops withdraw but civil war continued ,Taliban are the student of I
Islamic studies.

Osama Bin Laden lead the Islamist terror group al-Qaeda, was quickly identified as the
man responsible. The radical Islamists(Taliban ) who ran Afghanistan and protected
Bin Laden, refused to hand him over the government . After a month of 9/11 , the US
launched air strikes against Afghanistan .
Afghanistan followed the United States Invasion on 7 October 2001, when the United
States of America and its allies successfully drove the Taliban from Power .Following
the September 11 attacks in 2001 on the US , which president George Bush stated was
carried out by Al-Qaeda terrorist organization led by Osama bin laden , who was living
or hiding in Afghanistan . The US with UK government launched operation ending
freedom violence from 2007 to 2009 , 140,000 foreign troops operated under ISAF and
US command in Afghanistan .

Ideology played an extensive role in the Cold War insurgencies. Taliban

Movement, in Afghanistan , in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ) beyond the discursive level. The
central ideology conflicts was over capitalism and communism , but it also proved
to determine the insurgent organizations internal structures and their control, to
shape their governmental policies, and to provide strategic in the battlefield.
Containment was a United States policy using techniques to prevent the spread of
communism among the afghan people . This policy was a response to a series of
moves by the Soviet Union to enhance its communist sphere of influence in Eastern
Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam . The conflict was a Cold war-era proxy war.
2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of afghan fled the country as refugees
mostly to Pakistan and Iran.
These were wars fought between other countries but both sides either funded one side
of the war or fought directly against a communist or capitalist force, are all considered
Cold War proxies . Soviet Union led the conflict communist dictatorships against the US
and the Western democracies. At the threat of mass destruction posed by the new
atomic weapons , the heart of the Cold War lie a political struggle .