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  2. Nuclear-weapon-free zone - Wikipedia

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    A nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) is defined by the United Nations as an agreement that a group of states has freely established by treaty or convention that bans the development, manufacturing, control, possession, testing, stationing or transporting of nuclear weapons in a given area, that has mechanisms of verification and control to enforce its obligations, and that is recognized as such ...

  3. List of army equipment of Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    Model Image Origin Type Quantity Notes DPMS Panther LRT-SASS United States Designated marksman rifle: Dragunov sniper rifle Soviet Union Designated marksman rifle: Inherited from the Soviet-Afghan War and Afghan Civil War.

  4. Politics of Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] As the government is provisional, there is no constitution or other basis for the rule of law. The structure is autocratic, with all power concentrated in the hands of the supreme leader and his clerical advisors. [5] According to the V-Dem Democracy indices Afghanistan was as of 2023 the 4th least electoral democratic country in the ...

  5. List of states with nuclear weapons - Wikipedia

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    Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). In order of acquisition of nuclear weapons, these are the United States, Russia (the successor of the former Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, France, and China. Of these, the three NATO members, the United ...

  6. List of equipment of the Afghan Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    SMLE No.4 Mk.1 rifles captured from the former Afghan National Army. [3] Submachine guns; Škorpion: Czechoslovakia: Submachine gun [4] Shotguns; Mossberg 500 United States: Pump-action shotgun: Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [3] Sniper rifles; M24 Sniper Weapon System United States: Sniper rifle: Captured from the former Afghan ...

  7. Participants in Operation Enduring Freedom - Wikipedia

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    Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, several countries began military operations against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan. After the initial bombing operations, Operation Crescent Wind , OEF was the initial combat operations, and during 2002 and 2003.

  8. Democratic Republic of Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, [a] later known as the Republic of Afghanistan, [b] was the Afghan state between 1978 and 1992.It was bordered by Pakistan to the east and south, by Iran to the west, by the Soviet Union to the north, and by China to the northeast.

  9. List of military operations in the war in Afghanistan (2001 ...

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    Participants in the initial American operation, Operation Enduring Freedom, included a NATO coalition whose initial goals were to train the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and assist Afghanistan in rebuilding key government institutions after the fall of the Taliban regime in December 2001.