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History
20th century
Asia
Central Asia and Iran
Central Asia and Iran
1953 Iranian coup d'état
Coup to depose the elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh
Abadan Crisis
Occurred from 1951 to 1954
Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992)
Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
Civil war in Afghanistan between 1992–1996
Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
1996–2001 civil war in Afghanistan
Afghan conflict
Ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan since 1978
Battle of Kabul (1992–1996)
1992 A series of intermittent battles over Kabul
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Central Asian Republic (1978–1992)
Iran hostage crisis
Occupation of Tehran's U.S. embassy (1979–1981)
Iranian Revolution
Revolution in Iran from 1978 to 1979
Iran–Iraq War
1980–1988 war in West Asia
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan
Northern Alliance
Military front in Afghanistan
Pahlavi dynasty
Former country in Western Asia (1925–1979)
Persian Constitutional Revolution
Uprising against Iranian monarchy
Saur Revolution
Communist 1978 coup d'état in Afghanistan
Soviet Central Asia
Region in the Soviet Union
Soviet–Afghan War
1979–1989 armed conflict in South Asia
Taliban
Afghan Sunni Islamic fundamentalist movement