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  2. Afghan conflict - Wikipedia

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    The total withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Afghanistan was completed in February 1989. [35] The last Soviet soldier to leave was Lieutenant General Boris Gromov, leader of the Soviet military operations in Afghanistan at the time of the Soviet invasion. [36] In total, 14,453 Soviet soldiers died during the Soviet–Afghan War.

  3. Urtatagai conflict (1925–1926) - Wikipedia

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    The Urtatagai conflict was a conflict between the Soviet Union and the Emirate of Afghanistan in the mid-1920s over the control of the island of Urta Tagay, which is an island on the Amu Darya river that had been claimed by Afghanistan since 1900, [1] although it was under Russian control until 1920, when remnants of the Imperial Russian Army evacuated the island to aid the White movement in ...

  4. Soviet–Afghan War - Wikipedia

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    The first phase of the war began with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and first battles with various opposition groups. [134] Soviet troops entered Afghanistan along two ground routes and one air corridor, quickly taking control of the major urban centers, military bases and strategic installations. However, the presence of Soviet troops did ...

  5. Invasions of Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. [1] [2] Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire, the ancient Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, the Rashidun Caliphate, the Mongol Empire led by Genghis Khan, the Timurid Empire of Timur, the Mughal Empire, various Persian Empires, the Sikh Empire, the ...

  6. Panjshir offensives (Soviet–Afghan War) - Wikipedia

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    The First Panjshir Offensive took place in April 1980, four months after the arrival of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. It involved three Soviet battalions, of which one was the fourth battalion of the 56th Guards Air Assault Brigade led by Captain Leonid Khabarov , and 1,000 men of the Afghan Army , more specifically the 37th Commando Brigade ...

  7. Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929) - Wikipedia

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    Vitaly Primakov.. Selection in the detachment was conducted by the deputy commander Germanovich. The Afghan detachment was replenished by the Red Army from the 81st cavalry and 1st mountain rifle regiments, as well as the 7th cavalry artillery division of the Red Army with 4 mountain guns, 12 easel and 12 light machine guns.

  8. Operation Storm-333 - Wikipedia

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    Operation Storm-333 (Russian: Шторм-333, Štorm-333) was a military raid executed by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979. Special forces and airborne troops stormed the heavily fortified Tajbeg Palace in Kabul and assassinated Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, a Khalqist of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who had taken power in the Saur Revolution of April ...

  9. 1979 Herat uprising - Wikipedia

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    The communist regime at first appealed to its Soviet allies for help, but the Soviet leadership declined to intervene. After the insurgents seized and held the city for about a week, the regime was able to retake it with its own forces, and the subsequent aerial bombardment and recapture of Herat left 3,000 to 25,000 of its inhabitants dead. [ 3 ]