An Afghan training camp is a camp or facility used for militant training located in pre-2002 Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks

September 11, 2001 attacks

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, Indian intelligence officials estimated that there were over 120 training camps operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

, run by a variety of militant groups.

In 2002 Journalists with the New York Times examined the sites of several former training camps, finding 5,000 documents.
According to the New York Times:

The documents show that the training camps, which the Bush administration has described as factories churning out terrorists, were instead focused largely on creating an army to support the Taliban, which was waging a long ground war against the Northern Alliance.

In 2005 the New York Times published an article about camps that continued to function in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas

Federally Administered Tribal Areas

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas are a semi-autonomous tribal region in the northwest of Pakistan, lying between the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, and the neighboring country of Afghanistan. The FATA comprise seven Agencies and six FRs...

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On July 25, 2007, scholars at the Combating Terrorism Center

Combating Terrorism Center

The Combating Terrorism Center is an academic institution at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York that provides education, research and policy analysis in the specialty areas of terrorism, counterterrorism, homeland security and weapons of mass destruction...

 at the United States Military Academy

United States Military Academy

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 published a study that named over two dozen training camps allegedly attended by Guantanamo captives.

List of Afghan training camps

Khalden	Was open from at least the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, until 2000, when the Taliban movement shut it down.
al Farouq Al Farouq training camp The Al Farouq training camp, also known as "the airport camp", was an alleged Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training....	More Guantanamo captives are alleged to have attended this camp than any other camp. Training lasted for approximately one month. Different Guantanamo captives are alleged to have been trained on a different mix of weapons at al Farouq. If al Farouq provided training on every weapon American intelligence analysts allege is available there then it would provide training on practically every weapon found on the modern battlefield.
Derunta	Alleged to have provided bomb-making training.
Tarnak Farms Tarnak Farms Tarnak Farms refers to a former Afghan training camp near Kandahar.The camp is very near the Kandahar airport.The Al-Qaeda camp is alleged to have offered training constructing bombs, using poisons, urban warfare, and assassination...	One of Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets... 's homes. Converted into a coalition training facility.