Information
Name: Soviet-Afghan War
Type: Event
Start: 1979
End: 1989
Parents: Afghan Civil War
Children: Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan, Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Soviet-Afghan War: All Data
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Was a Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in support of the socialist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, and is also considered the first phase of the wider Afghan Civil War. After nearly ten years of fighting with the Afghan mujahideen, the Soviet troops left Afghanistan in 1989 and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan collapsed in 1992.
