Political Affairs

Peter "Pete" Sampras ( / ˈ s æ m p r ə s / ; born August 12, 1971) is a retired American tennis player and former world no. 1. During his 14-year tourcareer, he won 14 Grand Slam singles titles and became recognized as one of the greatest tennis players...

Ivan Lendl (born March 7, 1960) is a former world no. 1 professional tennis player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, he became a United States citizen in 1992. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s and remained a top competitor into...

John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. (born February 16, 1959) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States. He won sevenGrand Slam singles titles (three at Wimbledon and four at the US Open), nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and...

Björn Rune Borg (Swedish pronunciation: [bjœːɳ bɔrj] born 6 June 1956) is a former World No. 1 tennis player from Sweden. Between 1974 and 1981 he won 11 Grand Slam singles titles. He won five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles and six French Open singles...

Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil (born 1971) was the last Foreign Minister in the Taliban government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. [1] Prior to this he served as spokesman and secretary to Mullah Mohammed Omar, leader of the Taliban. After the Northern...

Burhanuddin Rabbani (Persian: برهان الدين رباني Burhânuddîn Rabbânî; 20 September 1940 – 20 September 2011) was President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom,...

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (Pashto: محمد نجيب الله ; August 6, 1947 – September 27, 1996), [1] better known mononymously as Najibullah orNajib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992 when the mujahideen took over Kabul. He had previously...

Abdul Rashid Dostum and Hamid Karzai Abdul Rashid Dostum ( Persian : عبدالرشید دوستم) is a former government army general during the Soviet war in Afghanistan and is considered by many to be the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community . He is currently...

Jimmy Connors, Miami, Florida 2007 James Scott "Jimmy" Connors (born September 2, 1952, in East St. Louis, Illinois) [1] is a former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States. Connors won eight Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles...

The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance (1955–1991), more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the...