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| 1985 |
| | | President Reagan's administration breaks a US embargo with secret arms sales to Iran in return for assistance in the release of US hostages in Lebanon | |
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| 1985 |
| | | Seven groups of Afghan mujaheddin form a united front against the Soviet army | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses | |
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| c. 1988 |
| | | Osama bin Laden's involvement in the fight against Soviet forces in Afghanistan leads to his development of al-Qaeda | |
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| 1988 |
| | | The Iran-Iraq war ends with the border between the countries unchanged and more than a million dead | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The USSR completes the phased withdrawal of its troops from Aghanistan | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini dies and is succeeded by Sayed Ali Khamenei as Iran's leading ayatollah | |
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| 1992 |
| | | Mohammad Najibullah, Russia's puppet ruler in Afghanistan, is finally overwhelmed in Kabul by the mujaheddin | |
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| 1992 |
| | | The mujaheddin, after removing from power the Soviet-backed president Najibullah, proclaim an Islamic state | |
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| c. 1994 |
| | | Mullah Mohammed Omar, in Kandahar, forms a group devoted to fundamentalist Islam and calls it Taliban (meaning students of the Qur'an) | |
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