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Al-Qaeda came out of the various Islamist Mujahideen forces that developed in the Afghanistan War (against the Soviets) from 1979 to 1989.

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Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden and other militant Islamists in the late 1980s during the Soviet-Afghan War. The group emerged from the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), a network of foreign mujahideen fighters who had traveled to Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet Union.

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