The U.S- led military intervention in Afghanistan marks the fourth phase in the country's twenty-three-year-old civil war. In every phase foreign powers have intensified the conflict by supporting one side against another.
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Afghanistan: U.S. Military Intervention Marks New Phase in Civil War
Backgrounder on History of the War
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