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Afghanistan conflict (1978–present)
Saur RevolutionOn the 17th of April 1978, a prominent member of the Parcham faction named Mir Akbar Khyber was assassinated in Kabul. The government issued a statement…
People's Democratic Party of AfghanistanOn the 1st of January 1965, twenty-seven men gathered in a house in Kabul to establish the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.
Soviet–Afghan WarIn 1893, British civil servant Mortimer Durand drew a line across the Pamir Mountains that would haunt Afghanistan for over a century.
Afghan conflictIn July 1973, a cousin named Mohammad Daoud Khan walked into the palace of Kabul and ended forty years of peace. The monarch, King Zahir Shah, did not fight…