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Mar 14, 2021 · At the end of 1979 the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in order to support the Communist-inspired Afghan government. This led to a decade-long conflict in which the anti-Soviet Islamic Mujahideen rebels were supported by the United States. Here, Daniel Boustead tells us about the conflict and some
e. Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen were also supported by Britain's MI6, who ...
- 3 July 1979–1992
- Weapons sales, financing of Afghan mujahideen forces
Covert U.S. support to the mujahideen fighters battling the Soviet occupiers (one of whom was the Saudi-born bin Laden) had helped turn the Soviet-Afghan conflict into another theater of the broader Cold War. President Reagan (third from left) meeting with Afghan mujahideen leaders at the White House in 1983.
Apr 27, 2021 · Support Us 1979-1989: Response to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Mujahideen rebels are seen in the area between Kabul and Jalalabad in Afghanistan in February 1980.
Apr 28, 2011 · 28 April marks the 19th anniversary of the mujahideen's victory over the Red Army forces in Afghanistan. The original mujahideen of the 1980s and today's Taliban may use the same language of holy ...
- Nushin Arbabzadah
14,864 killed (per UCDP) The 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War, also known as the First Afghan Civil War, took place between the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the Soviet–Afghan War on 15 February 1989 until 27 April 1992, ending the day after the proclamation of the Peshawar Accords proclaiming a new interim Afghan government ...
Sep 7, 2021 · In the Retro Report video “How the Military Response to 9/11 Led to Two Decades of War in Afghanistan,” officials who drove the decades-long war in Afghanistan look back on the strategic ...
