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1979
Afghanistan and the Soviet Union "has known little peace since 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded"(NYT). -
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History of Afghanistan
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1986
The U.S Sinter Aircraft missiles declared that " the Soviet air Force was also rendered largely useless" (NYT) compared to the U.S's. -
1989
Towards the end of the invasion when Afghanistan was traumatized "the last Soviet troops left" (NYT). -
1994
In afghanistan after the Soviet invaded "power was anarchically divided among competing warlords and individual fiefdoms" (NYT). -
end of 1994
After competition between many uprising leading in Afghanistan " Mulah Omar had nearly 12,000 followers and was rolling up the warlords to the north and east" (NYT). -
1996
Once the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 91996 they began "imposing strict enforcement of fundamentalist Islamic law" (NYT). -
2001
When there was a terrorist attack on " the World Trade Center... President George W. Bush gave the Taliban an ultimatum to hand over Mr. bin Laden. -
2004
Hamid Karzai became president of Afghanistan in 2002 hoping " to secure peace for Afghanistan and win the country much-needed international aid" (NYT). -
2008
General Petraeus "had taken charge of United States Central Command in October 2008" (NYT). -
2009
With Obama unsatisfied that U.S. troops were in Afghanistan for an undeclared amount of time he "vowed to start brining American forces home... changed it's tone to... at least the end of 2014" (NYT).