From the Communist regime to the Mujahideen, from the Soviet Union to the Taliban, and then from the US to the Taliban Part II, Afghanistan has always left the battlefield. In 1972, like any European country, modernity used to be the identity of Afghanistan. But just before the 80s began, in 1979, Afghanistan became the battlefield in the struggle against the communist regime of Afghanistan with the Mujahideen fighting wars in the name of jihad. Watch the history of the long war in Afghanistan.