HAIDARI: Bonn II: Seeking a secure Afghanistan

In the preceding decade, Afghans, who had fought one of the bloodiest proxy conflicts of the Cold War against the former Soviet Union, were abandoned by their Western allies and the international community at large. Indeed, the consequences of neglecting Afghanistan’s postwar reconstruction, after the withdrawal of defeated Soviet forces from the country in 1989, allowed regional players to fuel a proxy civil war in Afghanistan. - HAIDARI: Bonn II: Seeking a secure Afghanistan - Washington Times