Three native Afghans examine the rise of the Taliban . A report from Afghanistan looks at the country's fierce rebel infighting . A look U.S. reaction to the continuing Soviet occupation of Afghanistan .
Tensions rise between Soviet forces and Afghan rebels .
Browse the NewsHour's coverage of Asia . The U.S. State Dept. First tonight, we look at one of the closing scenes of the Cold War, the collapse of communist authority in Afghanistan. It comes 14 years after Marxists took power in a coup and three years after the Soviet Union abandoned its effort to rule Afghanistan by military force. Now, the Mujahadeen forces who fought a guerrilla war against the Red Army with help from the U.S. and others have taken command of the country and its capital, Kabul.