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 Jonathan Fox (
It is divided into 2 factions, the Parcham (Banner) faction and the Khalq (Masses) faction, both of which are dominated by Pashtuns.
July 14, 1992: Both factions of the Hizb-i-Islami are intercepting shipments of food and fuel to Kabul from the north.
The cabinet is comprised of members of Rabbani's Jam'iyat-i-Islami (T) faction and Hekmatyar's Hizb-i-Islami (P), as well as representatives from Ittehad-i-Islami (a faction aligned with Rabbani and led by Rasool Sayyaf), Rabinni-allied Harakat-i-Islami (O), and Hizb-i-Wahdat (H), another faction allied with the president.
www.members.tripod.com /~ismat/civilwar.htm   (16831 words)

  
 TIME.com: Afghanistan Rebuff from the Rebels -- Feb. 1, 1988 -- Page 1
Yunis Khalis, chairman of the loosely knit alliance of seven mujahedin groups, refused to meet Cordovez.
Khalis' outburst was also a pointed reply to earlier remarks by Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who has allowed the U.S.-supplied rebels to operate from his territory.
Khalis, however, was not speaking with the full backing of his alliance's membership.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,148521,00.html   (698 words)

  
 Mujahideen take up the Taliban fight
According to well-placed sources, under an accord reached in Pakistan two weeks ago between the Taliban and the Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan, a fundamentalist faction of the mujahideen led by Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister in Afghanistan in pre-Taliban days, Hekmatyar's troops have taken control of most of the eastern provinces of Afghanistan.
The sources said that another area of Afghanistan is under the control of another faction of the Hizb-i-Islami led by Maulvi Yunus Khalis.
The Yunus Khalis faction of the Hizb-i-Islami was the third largest force - the second biggest was the Jamiat-i-Islami Afghanistan led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, now leading the Northern Alliance.
www.atimes.com /c-asia/CK16Ag05.html   (945 words)

  
 Home Page Afghanology.com
Enrolled very young in the war against the soviet occupation as member of Hezb-i-Islami (Khalis faction), he became the chief commander of Kabul region and organized a takeover of Kabul.
After the collapse of the communist regime in 1992, he became the non-representitive and nominal president of Afghanistan, but was driven out by Taliban from Kabul after his commanders, and other factional leaders and their commanders, committed atrocities agaisnt innocent civilians from 1992-1996.
Gulbudin Hekamtyar born in 1948 in Konduz province of northern Afghanistan.
www.afghanology.com /who.htm   (1297 words)

  
 Minorities At Risk (MAR)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
However, a 1998 agreement between Hazara faction leader Hujjat-al-Islam Sayyid Mohammad Akbari and the Taliban has left some administration of some areas of Hazarajat, nominally under Taliban control, in the hands of ethnic Hazaras.
Hizb-i-Islami (Hekmatyar faction): Radical Sunni Islamists, led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
Hizb-i-Islami (Khalis faction): "Moderate" Sunni Islamists, led by Yunis Khalis.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/afghhaz.htm   (2095 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
In the factional fighting that emerged after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Islamic Party forged a number of non-durable political alliances, first with officials in the Najibullah regime and later with Uzbek warlord Dostam.
Recent reports suggest that the fragmentation of the Islamic Party has continued, with a group led by Khalid Farooqi proclaiming to support the transitional regime of Hamid Karzai and end their struggle against the Afghan government and coalition troops.
Farooqi has claimed that his faction of the group has cut off all contact with Hikmatyar, who remains at large.
www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4372   (395 words)

  
 Afghan Profiles - Haji Abdul Qadir
He was the former commander in Hezb-e Islami (Khalis faction) during the Soviet war, prominent member of UNIFSA as well as the former governor of Nangarhar province.
His involvement in Afghan politics predated the 1979 Soviet invasion but, during the ensuing war, he was a key commander with the Hezb- I-Islami (Islamic party) led by conservative cleric Younis Khalis.
It was after the fall of Dr Najibullah's government in 1992 - the final legacy of the pro-Soviet era - that he was appointed governor of Nengarhar province.
www.zmong-afghanistan.com /profiles/qadir.asp   (549 words)

  
 Afghanistan Online: Biography (Other Personalities of Today)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
During the Soviet war, Ali, who is from the Pashai tribe, was a low-level commander in Hezb-i-Islami (Yunis Khalis faction) who helped kick the Soviets out of his village.
Khalis is head of the Islamic Party (Hezbe Islami-Khalis).
In October of 2003, the Pakistani newspaper, The News International reported that Khalis had joined the Taliban's fight against the US and International forces in Afghanistan.
www.afghan-web.com /bios/today/others.html   (2572 words)

  
 netcyclo: Afghanistan
The Soviet Union invaded in 1979, but was forced to withdraw 10 years later by anti-Communist mujahidin forces supplied and trained by the US, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others.
Fighting subsequently continued among the various mujahidin factions, giving rise to a state of warlordism that eventually spawned the Taliban.
In addition to occasionally violent political jockeying and ongoing military action to root out remaining terrorists and Taliban elements, the country suffers from enormous poverty, a crumbling infrastructure, and widespread land mines.
www.netcyclo.com /places/polit/nations/afghanis/afghanis.htm   (1266 words)

  
 WhoisWho   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
member of Hezb-i-Islami (Khalis faction), he became the chief commander of Kabul region and organized a
1978, he became foreign minister but left soon the cabinet due to a conflict with Khalq faction.
After Saur revolt of 1978, he became foreign minister then prim minister by ousting Parcham faction led by Karmal.
www.afghanology.com /WhoisWho.html   (1264 words)

  
 Gorbat Online
Hafizullah Amin (1929-1979), President of the Democratic Republic and of the Revolutionary Council from 16 Sep to 27 Dec 1979; Prime Minister from 27 Mar 1979; head of the Hezb-e-Democratic-e-Khalq (People's Democratic Party, Communist), Khalq faction; overthrown and killed by the Soviet Army on 27 Dec 1979.
Mawlawi Mohammad Yunus Khalis (1919-), head of the pro-taliban Pashtun mujahed party Hezb-e-Islami-Khalis (Islamic Party-Khalis faction).
Nur Mohammad Taraki (1917-1979), President of the Democratic Republic and of the Revolutionary Council from 30 Apr 1978 to 16 Sep 1979; Prime Minister from 1 May 1978 to 27 Mar 1979; head of the Hezb-e-Democratic-e-Khalq (People's Democratic Party, Communist), Khalq faction; arrested on 16 Sep 1979 and executed shortly after by order of Amin
www.gorbat.org /plead/faceson.html   (873 words)

  
 Afghanistan Online: Political parties and leaders in Afghanistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
However, it recently opened an office in Jalalabad, and plans on actively participating in the upcoming parliamentary elections to be held in September, 2005.
Unlike Ahadi's faction which supported Hamid Karzai in the October 2004 elections, Sham's faction supported Humayoon Shah Asefi.
Note: Khalis is believed to be in hiding and involved in fighting against the US troops present in Afghanistan.
www.afghan-web.com /politics/parties.html   (1300 words)

  
 DAWN - Opinion; December 1, 2001
Jelalabad and its surrounding provinces were left by retreating Taliban forces to Mualvi Younis Khalis’ faction of the Hizb-i-Islami who has revived the Nangarhar Shura under the governorship of Haji Qadir.
The Persianized Pukhtoon majority of Herat city has been retaken by the Tajik leader Ismail Khan, who is nominally aligned with president Rabbani.
The Hizb, a Wahadat faction, can take to arms if it is left out in the cold.
www.dawn.com /2001/12/01/op.htm   (4579 words)

  
 Rug Notes Index - H Oriental rugs and carpets by Barry O'Connell,Spongobongo.com
Heywood, C. Heywood, C. "Review of The Age of the Crusades: The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517, by P. Holt" in JRAS.
There were two main factions of the Hezb-i-Islami.
It was the Khalis faction that Mullah Omar belonged.
www.spongobongo.com /rwh.htm   (2110 words)

  
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CIA says the two men killed in Afghanistan over the weekend belonged to its Directorate of Operations and were former special forces; they were engaged in surveillance of enemy personnel
BBC says Liberia's rebel faction LURD has agreed to resume disarming after the country's interim president agreed to reconsider the distribution of ministerial positions, as demanded by LURD; says the rebel group had been turning away relief convoys from its areas because of the dispute
BBC says French troops drive into Bouake, a major city in the rebel-held half of the Ivory Coast, to keep the peace between rebel factions; trouble began over money from a looted bank, 23 killed, 37 wounded; French troops were invited by the rebels and have entered the city for the first time
orbat.com /site/agtwopen/newsarchive_october2003.html   (4752 words)

  
 The 1997 CIA World Factbook - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/47)
Ahmad Shah MASOOD; and Hizbi Wahdat-Khalili faction (Islamic Unity
Television broadcast stations: NA note: one television station run by Jumbesh faction provides
Islamic militants worldwide by some factions; question over which
www.fullbooks.com /The-1997-CIA-World-Factbook2.html   (6281 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
NA note: one television station run by Jumbesh faction provides intermittent service
NA; note - the military does not exist on a national basis; some elements of the former Army, Air and Air Defense Forces, National Guard, Border Guard Forces, National Police Force (Sarandoi), and tribal militias still exist but are factionalized among the various groups
Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda or FLEC note: FLEC is waging a small-scale, highly factionalized, armed struggle for the independence of Cabinda Province
www.ontoknowledge.org /oil/case-studies/CIA-facts.rdf   (9747 words)

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