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The Northern Alliance (Dari: ائتلاف شمال E'tilāf Šumāl or اتحاد شمال Ettehād Šumāl), officially known as the United National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan (Dari: جبهه متحد ملی برای نجات افغانستان Jabha-ye Muttahid-e Millī barāye Najāt-e Afğānistān), was a military alliance of groups that operated between early 1992 and 2001 [4 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. Afghan Field Marshal, politician (born 1954) Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum HDR(A) O.R.(B) MSSS عبدالرشید دوستم First Vice President of Afghanistan In office 29 September 2014 – 19 February 2020 President Ashraf Ghani Preceded by Yunus Qanuni Succeeded by Amrullah Saleh ...
The Northern Alliance eventually won the two-month-long war in December 2001, removing the Taliban from power. Massoud has been described as one of the greatest guerrilla leaders of the 20th century and has been compared to Josip Broz Tito, Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara. [17]
Extensive Pakistani and Saudi support played a key role in these Taliban victories. Massoud retreated to his native Panjshir Valley, forming the United Front (also known as the "Northern Alliance"), which was backed by India, Iran, and Russia as a bulwark against the further expansion of the Taliban's militant Sunni fundamentalism into Central ...
Carrying out the U.S. Army's first cavalry charge of the 21st century, the American and Northern Alliance forces disperse the Taliban and al-Qaeda, and Dostum tracks down and kills Razzan. After Spencer is medevaced, Nelson and Dostum continue to Mazar-i-Sharif but find Atta Muhammad has beaten them there. Against expectations, Dostum leaves ...
A mountainous region, Panjshir was a formidable base of operations for anti-Soviet fighters and later for the original Northern Alliance. [20] [26] It was the birthplace of anti-Soviet and Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. [30] Ahmad Shah Massoud's son, Ahmad Massoud, is widely seen as his successor. [31]
The Alliance centered on the Sendai, Yonezawa, and Nihonmatsu domains, and drew together nearly all domains from the provinces of Mutsu and Dewa, several domains of northern Echigo Province, and even the Matsumae Domain of Ezo (modern-day Hokkaidō).
The Northern Alliance, a regional network of political activists that originated in the Lombardy, Lega Nord The Afghan Northern Alliance , a military-political umbrella organization in Afghanistan The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan also known as the Panjshir resistance , commonly considered to be the modern Northern Alliance