Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. [1] [2] Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire, the ancient Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, the Rashidun Caliphate, the Mongol Empire led by Genghis Khan, the Timurid Empire of Timur, the Mughal Empire, various Persian Empires, the Sikh Empire, the ...
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978–1987) Saur Revolution (1978) Republic of Afghanistan: People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan: Defeat: PDPA victory Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) Soviet Union Democratic Republic of Afghanistan: Mujahideen: Defeat: Geneva Accords; Withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan; Afghan Civil War ...
Mongol invasion of Afghanistan as part of the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire, resulting in thousands killed in the cities of Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad. 1221 In pursuit of the fleeing Khwarazmian king Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu , Genghis Khan massacres the entire population of Bamiyan after his favorite grandson Mutukan is killed in the ...
This is a list of years in Afghanistan. ... Tang China: 660–669: Tibetan Empire: 660–842: ... Mongol Invasion: 1219–1226: Chagatai Khanate:
The Territories of the People's Republic of China. London: Europa Productions, Taylor & Francis. 1-85743-149-9. China. Encyclopædia Britannica. Economic Times Bureau. (December 20, 2009). "Wars that People's Republic of China fought". The Economic Times. Jun, Niu. (August 10, 2012). The birth of the People's Republic of China and the road to ...
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
August 6: A CH-47 Chinook helicopter transporting 30 U.S. soldiers (including 17 Navy SEALs), 1 civilian interpreter and 7 Afghan troops is shot down in Wardak Province by RPG-wielding Taliban insurgents. There were no survivors of the crash. This incident marks the deadliest day for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001.
A military history of China (University Press of Kentucky, 2012). Li, Xiaobing, ed. China at War: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2012. online; Liu, Frederick Fu. A Military History of Modern China, 1924–1949 (1972). Mitter, Rana. "Old ghosts, new memories: China's changing war history in the era of post-Mao politics."