Afghan mujahideen

E90549

Islamist militant group guerrilla movement insurgent group

The Afghan mujahideen were a loose coalition of Islamist and tribal guerrilla fighters who waged a U.S.- and Pakistan-backed insurgency against the Soviet-backed Afghan government in the 1980s.

Aliases (2)

Afghan mujahideen alliance ×1
Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin ×1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamist militant group → guerrilla movement → insurgent group →
baseOfOperations	Afghan–Pakistani border regions → mountainous areas of Afghanistan →
composedOf	Islamist guerrillas → tribal fighters →
conflict	Soviet–Afghan War →
country	Afghanistan →
formedIn	late 1970s →
ideology	Afghan nationalism → Islamism →
legacy	emergence of the Taliban → rise of Afghan warlordism in the 1990s → spread of foreign fighters to other jihadist conflicts →
notableCommander	Abdul Rasul Sayyaf → Ahmad Shah Massoud → Burhanuddin Rabbani → Gulbuddin Hekmatyar → Jalaluddin Haqqani →
notableFaction	Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami → Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin → Ittehad-e Islami → Jamiat-e Islami → Mahaz-e Milli →
opposedTo	Democratic Republic of Afghanistan → Soviet Union →
organizedAs	loose coalition →
receivedAidType	financial support → training → weapons →
receivedWeapon	AK-47 → FIM-92 Stinger → RPG-7 →
religion	Sunni Islam →
resultedIn	withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan →
significantEvent	Soviet invasion of Afghanistan →
supportedBy	China → Egypt → Gulf Arab states → Inter-Services Intelligence → Pakistan → Saudi Arabia → United Kingdom NERFINISHED → United States →
timePeriod	1979–1989 →
usedTactic	ambushes → asymmetric warfare → guerrilla warfare → hit-and-run attacks → sabotage →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami → Hizb-i Islami Khalis → Ittehad-e Islami ("Afghan mujahideen alliance") → Mahaz-e Milli →	partOf
Soviet–Afghan War → Soviet–Afghan War ("Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin") →	opponent
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar →	associatedWith
Soviet–Afghan War →	belligerent
Operation Cyclone →	funded
Charlie Wilson's War →	hasSubject
Afghan conflicts →	mainBelligerent
Ahmad Shah Massoud →	militaryBranch
People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan →	opposedBy
Soviet–Afghan War →	primaryAdversaryOf
Panjsher offensives →	resistanceMovement