✦ History

Siege of Khost

January 1980 – April 11, 1991 · Khost

Part of Soviet–Afghan War

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Afghan mujahideen besieged the government garrison of Khost for most of the Soviet–Afghan War. The town fell to the mujahideen in 1991.

Sides

Soviet Union and Afghan government

Afghanistan
Soviet Union
Boris Gromov military commander Shahnawaz Tanai military commander Valentin Varennikov military commander

Mujahideen

Afghan mujahideen
Pakistan
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar military commander Jalaluddin Haqqani military commander