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TALIBAN:The #Taliban overthrew the Rabbani government in September 1996. #Hekmatyar fled to northern #Afghanistan. Unwilling to join forces with his old rival #Massoud, he made plans to evacuate to #Iran.
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CIVIL WAR:Three years after the #Soviet withdrawal, the Afghan communist regime finally collapsed. In April 1992 the victorious #mujahideen converged on #Kabul. The long-term rivalry between #Hekmatyar and Massoud would
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#JIHAD: After the assassination of Khyber, the Daoud regime arrested a number of high-profile #communists-rightly fearing a coup attempt.The arrests backfired.Communist plotters overthrew the regime on 27 April 1978.Daoud &
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SPY:The activist, a young man named #Hafiz, had just been released from prison. Hizb detained him in Peshawar and an entire network of alleged spies soon began to unravel. The
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The ancient city of #Bust on the east bank of the Helmand river in southern #Afghanistan was settled as early as the seventh century B.C.E. and lived its golden age
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#Kanishka I was, the greatest, and certainly the most famous, of the #Kushan kings. He is known, from the combined testimony of the literary, epigraphic, and numismatic sources, to have
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The Buddhist site of #TapaSardarBuddhist sanctuary rises on a hill which dominates a vast portion of the Dasht-i Manara plain Ghanzi #Afghanistan. The excavation of the site, carried out by
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The site of Tepe Narenj, which literally means “orange hill”, stands on a relief that is currently denoted as Koh-e Zamburak, or “mountain of the small wasp”, situated on the
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Getting into the situation at the Arsenal today in Kabul is probably the most exciting part of its living history because unlike so many historic sites around the world, most
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July 27, 1880: "When enemy cavalry cleared the front we were able to see indistinctly masses & masses of men. Due to the haze it was only when they moved
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Thread on Afghan-#India Friendship Dam: 1/6Tweets by AF (@TheFahimi)This dam, renamed from Salma dam in 2015 as a gratitude gesture to India, is located on Hari river in Western #Afghanistan.
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Thread on Naghlu Dam Tweets by AF (@TheFahimi): 1/8Khrushchev and Bulganin welcomed by PM Muhammad Daud Khan in #Kabul in Dec 1955. They agreed to extend a $100 million aid
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