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Afghanistan is bordered by Iran on the west, by Pakistan on the east and south, and by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan on the north; a narrow strip, the Vakhan (Wakhan), extends in the northeast along Pakistan to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China.
Afghanistan was neutral in World War II; it joined the United Nations in 1946.
The country was devastated by the AfghanistanWar (1979–89), which took an enormous human and economic toll.
The war on Afghanistan is not against the country or its people but against the terrorist group typified by Osama bim Laden and his Al Queda network, and against the state that supports it, the Taliban...
Of course, this war of Afghanistan is just the tip of the iceberg of the War on Terrorism, because the objective stated by President Bush is to dismantle the global terrorist networks and end state support for terrorism...
Afghanistan was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in 1979.
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