Word: afghanistan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...giving credibility and positive publicityto somebody who is a mass murderer ... responsiblefor Russian helicopters dropping booby-trappedbombs on Afghanistan," said society member Jean I.Gray...
...AFGHANISTAN'S MUJAHEDIN REBELS INFLICTED CONSIDERable damage on occupying Soviet troops and government forces thanks to mountains of sophisticated weaponry supplied from American and other Western sources. Now that a cease- fire is in place, terrorist groups and outlaw regimes are on a shopping spree in Afghanistan. Governments around the world are worried, particularly those from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to the Central Asian republics that might become targets of more powerful weapons. Iran has deployed two delegations to Kabul, offering to pay generously for American-made Stinger missiles -- the shoulder-mounted rockets can shoot down helicopters and low-flying...
AFTER 14 YEARS OF CIVIL STRIFE, AFGHANISTAN'S mujahedin guerrillas have won, but their war may not be over yet. While many of the U.S.-supplied fighters say they are weary of battle and hope for peace, leaders of their various ethnic and religious factions are still struggling for power in whatever government next tries to rule the country...
Massoud, a member of Afghanistan's Tajik minority, had initially held his men out of the capital, partly to avoid chaos in the city of 1.5 million and , partly to try to seal it off from Hekmatyar, his principal rival. Hekmatyar, an ethnic Pashtun and Islamic fundamentalist, had demanded that the rump government in Kabul surrender to him so that a strictly religious Muslim regime could be installed. Now both mujahedin forces are in the center of the city, including the grounds of the presidential palace, where even a small clash could spark another round of civil...
Guerrilla leaders meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan, suggested a compromise. They proposed an interim council, with representatives from each of the 10 major guerrilla groups, to govern Afghanistan until elections could be held within a year. They instructed Massoud to take charge in Kabul until their arrival. The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, Benon Sevan, asked all factions to set aside their differences and cooperate, but he was less than optimistic. "What they agree to in the morning," he said, "they reject in the evening as if it were signed in invisible ink." Hekmatyar talked with Massoud for two hours by radio...