The contemporary political history of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

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• The history in general of Afghanistan
• The history of Word War III in Afghanistan

The culmination of Afghanistan's Civil War, 1995–1996

Foreign-sponsored human rights disaster ignored by the world

From Amnesty International News Service, 29 November 1995. Countries who flooded Afghanistan with arms and used its conflicts for their own political agendas ignore the human rights disaster that resulted.

AI appeals to international community to take the initiative to promote and protect human rights

From Amnesty International News Service, 17 January 1996. Human rights abuses associated with the last sixteen years of civil war.

Afghanistan Drugs

Douglas Bakshian, Voice of America, 28 February 1996. Message from the US propaganda ministry regarding how the drug war is part of US political agenda in the region.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians

From Amnesty International, 25 June 1996. Afghanistan's civil war.

Iran-Afghanistan so-called sunni-shia divide

By Altaf Bhimji, 16 June 1997. The civil war in Afghanistan is not due to Sunni-Shia divide; the Taliban may not even be Muslim. Relation of the civil war to to US interests.

The era of the Taliban (1996–2001)

Afghanistan Warlord flees as revolt hands province to rival

AFP, 25 November 1997. Forces loyal to northern Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum have won control of the strategic northwestern Faryab province from the rival warlord, General Abdul Malik, who has fled the country.

US funding for Afghan Islamic theocracy? The Drug War is replacing the spectre of communism as an excuse to support despotic & authoritarian regimes

American Atheists, AANews, 26 December 1997. The United States government may be on the verge of extending financial aid and even diplomatic recognition to the Muslim terrorists running Afghanistan, who say they are struggling to create a pure Islamic state.

Northern Alliance—News Friends, Future Enemies?

Federation of American Scientists, 8 August 1998. After the dissolution the USSR in 1991, the non-Pashtun militias in the north formed the Junbish-i Milli-yi Islami (National Islamic Movement), founded by General Abdul Rashid Dostum, whose base of support lies primarily among the Sunni Muslim Uzbeks. The capture of Kabul by the Taleban on 26 September 1996 quickly realigned political forces within the region, and the non-Pashtun forces allied again as they did in the Northern Alliance of 1992.

Afghan feudal reaction: Washington reaps what it has sown

By John Catalinotto, Workers World, 3 September 1998. Starting in 1978 a progressive government came to power in Kabul. It championed women's rights, spread education and tried to replace feudal backwardness with enlightenment. The U.S. financed a bloody counter-revolutionary war against this progressive government. The war killed and displaced millions and brought the Taliban to power.