The Taliban
In Pashto, Taliban means this.
What are students?
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in this year.
What is 1979?
This 2001 U.S. military operation launched the War in Afghanistan.
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
The main goal of the U.S. invasion was to eliminate this terrorist group.
What is Al Qaeda?
Under Taliban rule, women were required to wear this full-body covering.
What is the burqa?
The Taliban first took control of this Afghan capital in 1996.
What is Kabul?
These Islamic fighters, supported by the U.S. and Pakistan, opposed Soviet forces.
Who are the Mujahideen?
This term describes the early phase of small, precise strikes against Taliban and Al Qaeda forces.
What is counterterrorism?
This 2009 troop increase aimed to weaken the Taliban’s control in Afghanistan.
What is the troop surge?
Television and music were banned under Taliban rule as forms of this.
What is "Western influence"?
This group was the main opposition to the Taliban in the 1990s.
What is the Northern Alliance?
The Soviet-Afghan War lasted approximately this many years.
What is 10 years?
This military strategy aimed to "win hearts and minds" of the Afghan people.
What is counterinsurgency?
This NATO country deployed the second-largest number of troops in Afghanistan.
What is the United Kingdom?
The Taliban grew out of Islamic schools known by this term.
What are madrassas?
The Taliban follows this strict interpretation of Islamic law.
What is Sharia law?
This was the name of the Soviet-backed Afghan government during the war.
What is the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan?
This term describes the phase of the war focusing on training Afghan security forces.
What is Security Force Assistance?
This is the official year that U.S. combat operations formally ended in Afghanistan.
What is 2014?
The Taliban imposed this form of punishment for crimes such as theft and adultery.
What is amputation or stoning?
This agreement, signed in 2020, outlined terms for U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
What is the Doha Agreement?
This was the main U.S.-supplied weapon that Afghan fighters used against Soviet forces.
What are the Stinger missile?
This period, when violence peaked, was the deadliest for U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
What is 2010-2012?
This is the approximate number of U.S. troops deployed at the peak of the Afghanistan War.
What is around 100,000?
People were forbidden from engaging in this activity, even in private, as it was deemed un-Islamic by the Taliban.
What is dancing?