Since the first troops crossed into Afghanistan in December 1979, the Soviet Union had tried to help the socialist government in Kabul fight off a constellation of insurgents, the most impressive of whom received aid from the United States and Saudi Arabia, working through Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. www.newageislam.com/islam-and-the-west/artemy-kalinovsky/do-not-believe-that-the-united-states-and-its-allies-will-be-able-to-stabilize-afghanistan/d/117760