major host of the Afghan refugee population—recruited the Sunni Pashtun Afghan refugees&their children toform the Taliban inthe mid-1990s./Mr.Amin,for example,believed that theSyrian war resulted from a dispute between the Nusra Front jihadist group (whichwas officially foundedin2012)&Mr. Assad.
spoke about it on his return to Kabul/The initial recruits to the Fatemiyoun Division were initially Shiite Hazara Afghans, who settled in Iran after the Soviet occupation, after the civil war in the early 1990s&the subsequent Taliban rule. Their recruitment had echoes of how Pakistan—the other(