Afghanistan People

Attacks on military installations

Who is Osama bin Laden? Osama bin Laden is the founder and leader of the international terrorist network ALQAEDA, and the U.S. government's prime suspect in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. His precise...

.After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda (or al-Qa'ida, pronounced al-KYE-da) surpassed the IRA, Hamas, and Hezbollah as the world's most infamous terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda—"the base" in Arabic—is the network of extremists organized...

Mullah Mohammed Omar was a reclusive figure even before his Taliban government fell from power in late 2001 and he was forced into hiding. It was Mullah Omar's backing for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden that brought the US-led campaign...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, an eye surgeon who helped found the Egyptian Islamic Jihad militant group, is often referred to as Osama Bin Laden's right-hand man and the chief ideologue of al-Qaeda. He is believed by some experts to have been the...

Hamid Karzai, GCMG (Pashto: حامد کرزی, Hāmid Karzay; born 24 December 1957) is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in...

Mansour (Persian: منصور , born 28 July 1971) is a contemporary Persian musical artist. From a new generation of rising singers of the exiled Iranian community based in Southern California, he is now ranked as one of the top male...

Ahmed Wali Karzai (Pashto: احمد ولي کرزی, Aḥmad Walī Karzay, 1961 – 12 July 2011) was a prominent politician in Afghanistan and the younger paternal half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and son of Abdul Ahad Karzai. As an elder of...

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Abdul Haq (born Humayoun Arsala; April 23, 1958 - October 26, 2001) was an Afghan Pashtun mujahideen commander who fought against the Soviets and Afghan communists during the Soviet-Afghan War. He was executed by the Taliban in October 2001 while...