Primary Sources: Middle East: Afghanistan

From Volume 4 of GWU's National Security Archives September 11th Sourcebooks

From Volume 2 of GWU's National Security Archives September 11th Sourcebooks

official UK Government website for efforts in Afghanistan

"The digital collection "Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection" contains 195 images which document the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s. The photographs portray the daily life of Afghanis, capture the beauty of the land, and document historic sites, including the great Buddhas of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. "Collection provided by the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

"Documents on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that began in December 1979. The documents begin before the war, spanning from 1968 to 2004. They come from various sources, though a large number are from Russian archives. The collection contains many different types of documents, but a large number of them are memos, cables, and Politburo decisions. Hafizullah Amin, the then president of Afghanistan, was the main target of the Soviet invasion, which successfully assassinated him on December 27. The later documents include commentary on the later stages of the war and the Soviet withdrawal."