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Parent topics

• Uzbekistan [r]: Previously part of the Soviet Union, a landlocked, predominantly Muslim nation of Central Asia, with Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan as neighbors ^[e]
  • Islam Karimov [r]: President of Uzbekistan ^[e]
• Juma Namangani [r]: Military leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; a former Soviet paratrooper who converted to Islam; killed by an airstrike at the Battle of Kunduz in 2001 ^[e]
• Mujahideen [r]: General term for Muslim "holy warriors", especially in Afghanistan. ^[e]
• Afghanistan War (1978–1992) [r]: A civil war in Afghanistan that matched the Soviet Union and its Afghan allies against a coalition of anti-Communist groups called the mujahideen, supported from the outside by the United States, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. ^[e]
• Kyrgyzstan [r]: A landlocked central Asian nation, formerly part of the Soviet Union; after a coup, it successfully held democratic elections ^[e]

Subtopics

• Ferghana Valley [r]: An area where the borders of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan come together; stronghold of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan ^[e]
• Afghanistan War (2001-2021), major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Battle of Kunduz [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Osama bin Laden [r]: Radical jihadist who, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. ^[e]
• Sharia [r]: The Muslim system of law and rule of conduct inspired by the Qur'an, the Sunna, traditional law systems, and the Hadiths. ^[e]