Mujahideen, 1987
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| Conflict | Soviet war in Afghanistan | | Date | 27 December 1979 � 15 February 1989 ( ) | | Location | Afghanistan | | Result | Geneva Accords;
* Millitary Stalemate
* Withdrawal of Soviet forces
* Afghan Civil War continues | Soviet Union
Afghanistan Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Unofficially supported by:
India. | Flag of Jihad.svg Mujahideen
* Harakat-e-Islami
* Hezb-i-Islami
* Hezbe Wahdat
* Jamiat-e-Islami
* Hezbollah-e-Afghanistan
* Ittehad-i-Islami
* Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
Unofficially supported by:
United States of America
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Israel
People's Republic of China
Canada
Republic of China (Taiwan)
Indonesia (Suharto regime) | Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Union Yuri Andropov
Soviet Union Konstantin Chernenko
Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union Dmitriy Ustinov
Soviet Union Sergei Sokolov
Soviet Union Valentin Varennikov
Soviet Union Igor Rodionov
Soviet Union Boris Gromov
Afghanistan Babrak Karmal
Afghanistan Mohammad Najibullah
Afghanistan Abdul Rashid Dostum
Afghanistan Shahnawaz Tanai
Afghanistan Mohammed Rafie | Ahmad Shah Massoud
Abdul Haq
Abdullah Azzam
Ismail Khan
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
Jalaluddin Haqqani
Mullah Naqib
Abdul Rahim Wardak
Fazal Haq Mujahid | | Soviet Troops:
*115,000
Afghan Government:
*55,000 | | Mujahideen:
200,000-250,000 | | Soviet:
14,453 Killed (total)
*9,530 killed in combat
*3,386 died from wounds
*1,556 died from disease and accidents
53,753 Wounded
312 Missing
Afghan Government:
18,000 killed | | Mujahideen:
56,000-90,000 killed | | Civilians (Afghan):
600,000-2,000,000 killed
5 million refugees outside of Afghanistan
2 million internally displaced persons
Around 3 million Afghans wounded (mostly civilians) |
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The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Afghan Mujahideen and foreign "Arab � Afghan" volunteers. The mujahideen got unofficial military and/or financial support from a variety of countries including the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom , Pakistan, Israel, Taiwan, Indonesia and China. The Afghan government was also supported by India. The Afghan war became a proxy war in the broader context of the late Cold War.
The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began on December 24, 1979 under Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev. The final troop withdrawal started on May 15, 1988, and ended on February 15, 1989 under the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Due to the interminable nature of the war, the conflict in Afghanistan has sometimes been referred to as the "Soviet Union's Vietnam War".
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