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    1988, the Soviet Union conducted a total military withdrawal from Afghanistan between 15 May 1988 and 15 February 1989. Headed by the Soviet military officer...
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    The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. In February 2020,...
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    The SovietAfghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The...
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    Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992. It relied heavily on assistance from the Soviet Union for most of its existence, especially during the Soviet–Afghan...
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  • Afghanistan withdrawal may refer to: Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan Withdrawal of United States...
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    Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the SovietAfghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War. The term mujāhidīn (Arabic:...
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    Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989. Afghan Civil War (1989–1992): Continuation of the conflict between the Afghan government and the Afghan mujahideen...
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  • Mohammad Najibullah (category 20th-century heads of state of Afghanistan)
    of Afghanistan, the Soviets began their withdrawal, and from 1989 until 1992, his government tried to solve the ongoing civil war without Soviet troops...
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    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...
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    (the Afghan Army’s military intelligence wing), having airborne assault capabilities until 1988, just before the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. 37th...
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  • Geneva Accords (1988) (category AfghanistanSoviet Union relations)
    agreements also contained provisions for the timetable of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. It officially began on 15 May 1988 and ended by 15 February...
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  • Abdullah Yusuf Azzam (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    while also recruiting non-Afghan fighters (known as Afghan Arabs) for their cause. Following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, he continued...
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    and War :: Soviet Aggression". Retrieved 26 December 2016. Kuisong p.29 Borer, Douglas A. (1999). Superpowers defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan compared...
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    the Soviets' withdrawal in 1989. The Islamic fundamentalist Taliban controlled most of the country by 1996, but their Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan received...
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  • or The Encyclopaedia of World Air Forces "Lessons of the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan | Middle East Policy Council". mepc.org. Retrieved 2023-07-31...
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    leaving chaos: the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan." Journal of Slavic Military Studies 20.2 (2007): 235-261. Smith, "Afghanistan after the Occupation:...
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  • New political thinking (category Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
    Nuclear Forces Treaty, Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, end of support of communist movements around the world and loosened the Soviet grip over Eastern...
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza Hut. It was filmed in November 1997 on...
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    Najibullah's PDPA during the civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992). After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in February 1989, the CIA's objective was...
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    months after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan was completed. However, beginning in May 2021, even while the withdrawal was occurring, the...
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    between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw. Once the withdrawal was complete the...
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    the Soviets' withdrawal in 1989. The Islamic fundamentalist Taliban controlled most of the country by 1996, but their Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan received...
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  • start of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. Lieutenant Steklov, son of a high-ranking General, is assigned to Afghanistan, hoping to take...
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    in the Soviet Union's relationship with the United States, but tensions emerged again following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. From 1985,...
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  • Raids inside Soviet Union during Soviet Afghan War were an effort to foment unrest and rebellion by the Islamic populations of the Soviet Union, starting...
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    and War :: Soviet Aggression". Retrieved 26 December 2016. Kuisong p.29 Borer, Douglas A. (1999). Superpowers defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan compared...
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    many to be a Soviet-backed assassination. After Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, the Soviets offered Pakistan to install a commercial nuclear...
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    Mikoyan MiG-27 (category 1970s Soviet attack aircraft)
    with SAB-100 flare bombs. The 134th regiment remained in Afghanistan until the Soviet withdrawal, taking part in the siege of Kandahar. They were withdrawn...
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    Israel. As the Soviet Union began to disintegrate, it also lost support to Mohammad Najibullah's regime in Afghanistan following the withdrawal in 1989. The...
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  • The old man lost his horse (category Articles with unsourced statements from July 2022)
    features the story during the celebration of news of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, near the end of the film. CIA agent Gust Avrakotos shares...
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