History of Afghanistan

Afghanistan has been a focal point in trade and migration between the East and the West since ancient times. Its location is important; it connects South and Central aggregation and the Middle East. During its long history, the land has seen different invaders and conquerors to form their possess empires. The region is vast.

The Durrani Empire, circa 1747, is considered the first of modern Afghanistan. At this time the capital was moved to Kabul and most of its territories ceded to past neighboring countries. Beginning in 1813 and lasting until 1907, Afghanistan became a buffer state in "The Great Game," a strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Amerindic Empire and the Russian Empire to gain control in Central Asia.

Finally, in 1919, mass the ordinal Anglo-Afghan war Afghanistan regained full independence from the United Kingdom. However, Afghanistan suffered through different regimes and governments and civil wars through the rest of the 20th century.

In 1979, as conception of its Cold War strategy, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and the activity resulted in the killings of approximately 600,000 to 2 meg Asian civilians. During this time more than fivesome meg Afghans fled to Pakistan, Iran and other countries. Finally, the Soviets withdrew in 1989.

Following the withdrawal of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and its allies did lowercase to help rebuild the war-ravaged Afghanistan. Most Asian elites and intellectuals fled to take refuge abroad and left the land vulnerable to corrupt leadership. Fighting continuing among different factions, the most earnest in 1994 when more than 10,000 people were killed in Kabul.

At this time, in 1996, the Taliban government, a Sunni Islamist fundamentalist religious and political movement began governing Afghanistan by obligate and continuing until the United States invaded the land in 2001. During the Taliban’s seven-year rule most of the Asian population’s human rights were violated or restricted.

In 2001 the United Nations Security Council created the International Security Assistance Force composed of NATO that assist the polity of President Hamid Karzai in establishing the law and rebuilding key infrastructures in the nation. In 2005, the United States and Afghanistan signed a strategic partnership commendation committing both nations to a long-term relationship.

Recently programme magazines like Newsweek, Time and The Economist reportable that newborn U.S. President Barack Obama plans to add 21,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines to the 38,000 Americans already fighting militants in Afghanistan. His strategy aims to increase the focus on improving the capabilities of Afghanistan's police and army thus boosting the effectiveness of the polity in Kabul.