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The Malleson Mission was a British military intervention in Central Asia during the Russian Civil War, aimed at countering the spread of Bolshevism and protecting British interests in India. Led by Major General Wilfrid Malleson , [ 12 ] the mission began in 1918 with the deployment of British Indian Army troops to the city of Meshed in Persia ...
2014 – ongoing Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) 26 March 2015 – ongoing Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war. 2015 – ongoing Houthi–Saudi Arabian conflict; 2023 – present Israel-Hamas war. 2023 – present Red Sea crisis (2023–present)
The Russians in Central Asia History Today. March 1956, 6#3 pp 172–180. Wheeler, Geoffrey. The modern history of Soviet Central Asia (1964). online free to borrow; Williams, Beryl. "Approach to the Second Afghan War: Central Asia during the Great Eastern Crisis, 1875–1878." 'International History Review 2.2 (1980): 216–238.
The term "Basmachi" is of Uzbek origin and means "bandit" or "robber" [14] [15] which probably derived from "baskinji" meaning "attacker". [16] The Russians used the term for the Central Asian resistance fighters, and it was widely used throughout the region to denote them, in an attempt to persuade the public that the fighters were no more than criminals.
The Tajikistani Civil War, [pron 1] also known as the Tajik Civil War, began in May 1992 and ended in June 1997.Regional groups from the Garm and Gorno-Badakhshan regions of Tajikistan rose up against the newly formed government of President Rahmon Nabiyev, which was dominated by people from the Khujand and Kulob regions.
The siege of Dushanbe took place in February 1922 during the Basmachi rebellion, an anti-Soviet uprising in Central Asia. The town of Dushanbe was captured by Basmachi forces under the command of Enver Pasha, a former Ottoman military leader who had aligned himself with the Basmachi rebels. The Soviet garrison was overwhelmed after a brief ...
Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible Eurasian boundaries for the subregion. Soviet Central Asia (Russian: Советская Средняя Азия, romanized: Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Russian SFSR and then the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.
The Central Asian revolt of 1916, also known as the Semirechye Revolt [citation needed] and as Urkun [21] [a] in Kyrgyzstan, was an anti-Russian uprising by the indigenous inhabitants of Russian Turkestan sparked by the conscription of Muslims into the Russian military for service on the Eastern Front during World War I. The rampant corruption ...