Afghanistan

=__Afghanistan __ = =__General Infomation __ = =__ Official Name __ Islamic Republic of Afghanistan = ===__Geographic Orientation__ Located in the heart of south- central Asia. Lying along important trade routes connecting southern and eastern Asia to Europe and the Middle East. Area, sq. km.: 652,090 ===

1978: Afghan Communist came into power
===1979: Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan prevent the communist government's collapse. Over 1.5 million people were killed and more than 6 million people became refugees. ===

1996: The Taliban captured Kabul, capital of Afghanistan
===2001: A terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in September caused the United States to join with the Northern Alliance in ousting the Taliban ===

__Major problems in the country __
===1) Opium production reached record levels with the years of Taliban government, and by now it was estimated that Afghanistan produced more than nine-tenths of the world's opiates . === ===During the time of Taliban control, many Afghan businessmen and even Taliban officers used the sale of opium as their income source. That was when the opium production began to increase significantly. ===

 2) Fighting between NATO and Taliban forces continued. There are huge civilian casualties, and the number has reached the highest in 2008.
===This conflict started in 2001 when the Taliban government was overthrown by the US and NATO force. The Taliban did not retreat and continued to attack the NATO force in different parts of the country. === ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The NATO force could not find a effecient way of ending this conflict, since the Taliban hated the Americans a lot, and they kept fighting the guerrilla war with the NATO force. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">3) The economy was in shamble and the current government is trying to recover the economy mostly depending on international aid.
===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The economy problem started after the war in the 1980s with the Soviets and it became more and more serious with the fighting between NATO and Taliban inside the country these days. === ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The international community paid lots of attention to the conomy difficulties in Afghanistan, and they provided many basic aids for people in Afghanistan to get better lives. ===

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