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CIA manpower was supplemented with personnel assigned from United States Army Special Operations Command. [90] Estimates of Taliban controlled districts in Afghanistan as of mid-July 2021 ranged as high as more than half, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Quarterly Report, July 31, 2021, p. 55.
Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
The viewpoint that it was the United States that was fomenting the Islamic insurgency in Afghanistan with the aim of destabilizing Soviet-dominated Central Asia tended to downplay the effects of an unpopular Communist government pursuing policies that the majority of Afghans violently disliked as a generator of the insurgency and strengthened ...
The United States' interest in Afghanistan also diminished. [24] In 1994, a Pashtun mujahid named Muhammad Umar founded the Taliban movement in Kandahar. [25] His followers were religious students and sought to end warlord rule through strict adherence to Islamic law. [25] By the end of 1994, the Taliban had captured all of Kandahar Province. [26]
Relations between Afghanistan and the United States began in 1921 under the leaderships of King Amanullah Khan and President Warren G. Harding, respectively. [4] The first contact between the two nations occurred further back in the 1830s when the first recorded person from the United States explored Afghanistan. [5]
Bandar bin Sultan: This is ironic. In the mid-'80s, if you remember, we and the United - Saudi Arabia and the United States were supporting the Mujahideen to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviets. He [Osama bin Laden] came to thank me for my efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists, he said the communists.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, another mujahideen [39] warlord in Afghanistan, supported by the United States and Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–89) and presumably hired by Pakistan's ISI to conquer Afghanistan (see section Participants civil war 1989–92), soon opposed to such an endeavour, [41] planning to capture Kabul alone.
In the mid-1970s and early 1980s, the US alleged chemical warfare by Soviet-aligned forces in Afghanistan, Laos, and Kampuchea (or Cambodia). The substance claimed to be used in the attacks was T-2 mycotoxin , a trichothecene mycotoxin which was allegedly used in the “ Yellow Rain ” attacks in the three countries mentioned previously. [ 52 ]