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I. The Taliban's War Against Women - US Department of State  Prior to the rise of the Taliban, women in Afghanistan were protected under law ... There was a mood of tolerance and openness as the country began moving ... The Taliban first became prominent in 1994 and took over the Afghan capital, Kabul, in 1996. ... tent-like full-body outer garment that covers them from head to toe.
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My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young ...  Born into a middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980, Latifa had a conventional childhood. ... All the discussions about burqa's, voiles, women covering their head. ..... sort of earth stopping news in the book My Forbidden Face written by Latifa. ..... growing up in Afghanistan when the Taliban have taken over the country.
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Taliban - Wikipedia  The Taliban (Pashto:    libn "students"), alternatively spelled Taleban, is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country. From 1996 to 2001, it held power in Afghanistan and enforced a strict ... Al-Qaeda also supported the Taliban with fighters from Arab countries and...
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Afghan Civil War (19962001) - Wikipedia  The Afghan Civil War fought between 1996 and 2001 was part of the wider War in Afghanistan ongoing since 1978. In 1996 the Taliban captured the Afghan capital Kabul and established the .... In public, women had to be covered from head to toe in a burqa  a .... Abu Usman succeeded him as the new leader of the IMU.
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John F. Burns of The New York Times - The Pulitzer Prizes  A year ago, when the Taliban forces first pushed to the gates of Kabul, many in the ... the militants drove back up the road to Kabul and threatened to overrun the ..... a gown that covers a woman from head to toe, allowing her to see only through ..... emerging from Afghanistan's chaos as the country's new ruler, winning glory...
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Afghanistan History - Afghanistan Government  The royal families of the country were Pashtun, and today the Pashtun ... Tajiks come in second with 25%, and the rest make up considerably smaller ... but the vast majority of this people are Muslims  and in fact many ethnic groups ... The first, which became known as the First Anglo-Afghan War, took place in 1838.
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We're losing the war in Afghanistan, too - Salon.com  Aug 21, 2003 ... Sayyaf, a major mujahedin leader from the past who allied himself with the ... In recent days, the Taliban has escalated its attacks on the shaky, ... been killed in the last week, making it one of the deadliest since the ... He is the man who put the Islamic into The Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan, the...
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The New Look of Liberalism on the Court - The New York Times  Oct 5, 1997 ... The director had tried to add a feminist twist by having the women ... In June 1996, in her opinion for the Court ordering the Virginia Military Institute to admit women, she ... to ask what, precisely, it means to be a liberal Justice in 1997. .... a woman and not having to engage in those strategies if they weren't...
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jeopardy/2645_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  OFFICIAL COUNTRY DESIGNATIONS | Since its former rulers were defeated, it's been known as a "transitional Islamic state" | Afghanistan. right: Wrong: Triple...
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All These Countries Have Had a Female Head of State (Before the ...  Jul 9, 2016 ... Over 70 countries have had a female head of state or government. ... soon be led by a woman, its first female prime minister since Margaret Thatcher left office in 1990. ... the first modern female president of any country in the world. ... Turkey (Tansu iller), Bangladesh (Sheikh Hasina, Khaleda Zia), New...
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Buried Alive: Afghan Women Under the Taliban  government sanctioned purpose, and they must wear the all enveloping burqa. ... The burqa is a garment that covers women from head to toe, the heavy ... justify the Taliban's ban on women's education: Afghanistan lacks the ... Under the regime, cigarette smoking is severely punished, yet in every .... media and law. During...
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Free Flashcards about FAMOUS WOMEN - StudyStack  IN 1997 JAY LENO'S WIFE MAVIS BECAME CHAIR OF A CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY, AFGHANISTAN.
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A Look at America's New Hope: The Afghan Tribes - The New York ...  Jan 30, 2010 ... Continue reading the main story Share This Page ... In many ways, Afghanistan's tribal structure is arguably the weakest it has been in ... Taliban after being frustrated by the weak central leadership of President Hamid Karzai.
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Kabul - Wikipedia  Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan as well as its largest city, located in the eastern section of the country. ..... bus in the 1950s. In the 1960s the first Marks & Spencer store in Central Asia was built in the city. Kabul Zoo was inaugurated in 1967...
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Taliban - Wikipedia  The Taliban (Pashto:    libn "students"), alternatively spelled Taleban, is an Islamic ... The Taliban emerged in 1994 as one of the prominent factions in the Afghan Civil ... It held control of most of the country until being overthrown by the ... At its peak, formal diplomatic recognition of the Taliban's government was...
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Mediating Transition in Afghanistan, 2001-2004 - University of Texas ...  Oct 8, 2001 ... for the Degree of ... It analyzes how the nascent Afghan state media ..... In the field of political science, the definition of transition is contested ..... particular, depended on Pakistan to funnel covert monies and arms to the mujahideen. ...... Researching US media aid to Afghanistan during the 1980s was...
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Afghanistan, 1979-1992: America's Jihad  William Blum  Earlier, the New York Times stated that the religious issue is being used by some ... shared a long border with Afghanistan, and were closely allied to the United States, ... A favorite tactic of the Afghan freedom fighters was to torture victims [often .... Neither could the word terrorist cross the lips of Washington officials in...
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War in Afghanistan (1978present) - Wikipedia  The war in Afghanistan began on 27 April 1978, when the People's Democratic Party of ... Afghanistan's resistance forces, known as the mujahideen, fought against .... After the fall of Najibullah's government in 1992, the Afghan political parties ..... Abdul Rashid Dostum and his forces were defeated by the Taliban in 1998.
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The Taliban and Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia.  Islamic fears of Central Asia's secular dictators, which only reinforces their tendency to ..... and future direction of political Islam in Central Asia. ... previous conflict that resulted in the deaths of 2,000 Taliban soldiers, the Taliban ...... Zalmay Khalilzad, "Afghanistan: The Consolidation of a Rogue State," The Washington...
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The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the US Response, 19781980  At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into ... This event began a brutal, decade-long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan civil ... Analysts remained skeptical that Moscow would occupy the country given...
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Taliban's rise to power - Wikipedia  This is a timeline of the background of the Taliban's rise to power. It details the Taliban ... Although there isn't any evidence that the CIA directly supported the Taliban or Al ... to them without a fight and the "heavily armed population" giving up their weapons. By September 1996 they had captured Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.