Despite having failed to implement a sympathetic regime in Afghanistan, in 1988 the Soviet Union signed an accord with the United States, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and agreed to withdraw its troops. The Soviet withdrawal was completed on February 15, 1989, and Afghanistan returned to nonaligned status.
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The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups as well as smaller Shi'ite and Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the ...
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Result: Afghan mujahideen victory: Geneva Accords (1988); Withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan; Afghan Civil War conti...
Date: 24 December 1979 – 15 February 1989; (9 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 1 day)
The final and complete withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from Afghanistan began on 15 May 1988 and ended on 15 February 1989 under the leadership of ...
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The long-term impact of the invasion and subsequent war was profound. First, the Soviets never recovered from the public relations and financial losses, which ...
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9 Feb 1999 · Prague, 15 February 1999 (RFE/RL) -- Ten years ago today, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in the final act of a war which sped the ...
13 Jan 2019 · “They were right to be there.” President Trump went on to say that the war in Afghanistan helped trigger the collapse of the Soviet Union. “The ...
18 Aug 2021 · The collapse of the Soviet Union, while generally remarkably peaceful, triggered a full-blown civil war in neighboring Tajikistan, and the ...
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