Afghanistan women's national basketball team was formed by US troops after the
invasion of Afghanistan
In late 2001, the United States and its close allies invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban government. The invasion's aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda, which had executed the September 11 attacks, and to deny it a safe base of operations ...
in 2001. The Afghanistan women's national basketball team was run by the
Afghan Olympic Committee. The team was disbanded following the
2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
A military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and other allied militants led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan based in Kabul and marked the end of the nearly 20-year-old War in Afghanistan, that had begun following the U ...
.
See also
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Afghanistan men's national basketball team
External links
Presentation on Facebook
References
Women's national basketball teams
Basketball in Afghanistan
Basketball teams in Afghanistan
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
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