Islamic State of Afghanistan

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/islamic-state-of-afghanistan

1. What is the formal establishment?
2. What is the primary challenge?
3. Why did the Islamic State of Afghanistan have a hard time ruling the country?
4. How did the Taliban change the situation for the Islamic State of Afghanistan?

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the formal establishment?April 1992, under the Peshawar Accord
2. What is the primary challenge?Limited power due to the ongoing second civil war
3. Why did the Islamic State of Afghanistan have a hard time ruling the country?Many of the groups that joined the new government fought each other, so the state could only control the capital and had little real power elsewhere.
4. How did the Taliban change the situation for the Islamic State of Afghanistan?In September 1996 the Taliban captured Kabul, forcing the Islamic State to leave the city and become a government-in-exile.

Peshawar Accord: An agreement signed in 1992 by Afghan factions to establish a post-Soviet interim government.
Government-in-exile: A political body that claims to be the legitimate government of a country but operates from outside its borders.
Northern Alliance: A coalition of Afghan opposition groups that fought against the Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001.