✦ History

Part of Cold War, Afghan conflict

Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)

February 15, 1989 – April 27, 1992 · Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

Result Afghan Interim Government victory

The Soviet-backed government of Mohammad Najibullah fought the mujahideen after Soviet troops left Afghanistan. The government survived until Soviet aid ended, and the mujahideen took Kabul in April 1992.

On the map Contemporaries

Afghan mujahideen

Republic of Afghanistan

Other

Afghan mujahideen
Afghanistan
Sibghatullah Mojaddedi belligerent leader Burhanuddin Rabbani belligerent leader Osama bin Laden belligerent leader Ahmad Shah Massoud belligerent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar belligerent leader Jalaluddin Haqqani belligerent leader Shahnawaz Tanai belligerent leader

Strength and losses

Killed
c. 40,000

Before and after

Ended by
Peshawar Accord April 26, 1992

Related events 1 degree away • 2 degrees away

1990
1991
1992
 
Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
 
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
 
Peshawar Accord

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