In Kabul, Northern Alliance forces—specifically Jamiat-e Islami forces under Afghanistan’s current Defense Minister, General Fahim—occupied most government ministries and military bases ...

TASS/. The Taliban radical movement (outlawed in Russia) and the Northern Alliance (the United Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan) have agreed to refrain from military action and attacking ...

Masood was the face of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance. The charismatic leader united the feuding groups in the north of the war-torn nation. They called him "the lion of Panjshir". He was the ...

And Delhi has always kept close ties with the Northern Alliance - a group of Afghan warlords that fought the Taliban between 1996 and 1999. With the Taliban in the heart of Kabul, India may now ...

In northern Afghanistan, ethnic Tajiks and Uzbeks ... Some observers attributed this to an alliance that was forged with the Taliban by Hujjat-al-Islam Sayyid Mohammad Akbari, a Shi'a Muslim ...