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The conflict may be classified as a strike for power between Taliban government and United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (UIFSA), each part representing different ethnic and linguistic groups, clans and several sects within Islam.
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The martyrs are gone, Now the Muslims fight each other, Where is the Muslim Ummah, To care for one another.1 1. History and Context The conflict may be classified as a strike for power between Taliban government and United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (UIFSA), each part representing different ethnic and linguistic groups, clans and several sects within Islam. The roots of the conflict are traced in late 1970s, when the Soviet Union launched an invasion of the country in order to prop up a pro-Communist regime in Kabul. The local population resisted the invasion by creating various guerilla forces, known as "Mujahidin" (religious warriors). The United States and Pakistan played leading roles backing Afghan fighters. An "early warning" sign of the conflict appeared after a Soviet pullout in 1989 when various Mujahidin factions fought to fill the power vacuum.2 The departing Soviet forces took with them little more than...
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