Word: mujahedin
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...troops into Afghanistan to install a more compliant puppet regime in the capital of Kabul, fighting throughout the country, though still indecisive, has grown more intense than ever. A few months ago, heavy Soviet offenses had pushed the resistance to the brink of collapse. Recently, however, the anti-Communist mujahedin rebels have struck back with some of their most punishing assaults...
Typical of the seesaw battle has been the fight for Barikot, a garrison just across the border from the Pakistani town of Arandu. Barikot is a major base of Soviet operations to block rebel supplies from abroad. Since the mujahedin first attacked the northeastern frontier outpost six years ago, the Soviets have broken the siege twice, only to see the rebels re-establish it. Robert Schultheis, an American free-lance writer, recently made his third trip into Afghanistan since the war began -- and his second for TIME -- and observed the fighting around Barikot. His report...
IRAN AIR. In July 1983 a jumbo jet bound from Shiraz in southwestern Iran to Tehran was hijacked with 386 passengers aboard by six Iranians opposed to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. After diverting the plane to Paris, Massoud Rajavi, an exiled leader of the mujahedin opposition to Khomeini, encouraged the hijackers to surrender. One inducement: they would be tried in French courts instead of being deported to Iran. No passengers were harmed...
...home, however, the Khomeini regime is increasingly harassed by the People's Mujahedin guerrillas. Last week a car bomb exploded in the bustling heart of the capital during rush hour, leaving 20 people dead. Three days earlier a similar explosion took 13 lives in the holy city of Qom. By week's end the government claimed to have crushed two Iraqi-sponsored "terrorist networks," made up of both monarchists and leftist guerrillas, that Tehran held responsible for the bombings. In London, another bomb shattered a video store belonging to Reza Fazeli, a vocal Khomeini critic. Tehran and the mujahedin blamed...
...after reading the fine print in Gorbachev's offer, Western military analysts pooh-poohed it. Noting that three of the six regiments were antiaircraft units, they pointed out that Afghanistan's mujahedin resistance fighters lack an air force. Gorbachev's list also included an armored regiment not suited for the mountainous terrain where most of the fighting is taking place. In Islamabad, Resistance Leader Sibghatullah Mujaddadi asked, "How many years will it take for the withdrawal of all the 120,000 Soviet troops if pullback of 8,000 is going to take six months...