2022年3月4日 · On Christmas Eve 1979, the Soviet Union began an invasion of Afghanistan, its Central Asian neighbor to the south. First, it air-dropped elite troops into principal Afghan cities.

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978–1980 At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country.

2023年10月29日 · The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. The 10-year conflict ended with enormous casualties and exhausted the Soviet Union, contributing to its dissolution.

2023年6月25日 · With the primary goal of supporting the beleaguered and very unpopular pro-Soviet government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, resulting in the 9-year Soviet-Afghan War.

2019年7月3日 · In 1979, the Soviet Union decided to try its luck in Afghanistan, long a target of Russian foreign policy. Many historians believe that in the end, the Soviet War in Afghanistan was key in destroying one of the Cold War world's two superpowers.

2025年1月18日 · By early 1980 several regional groups, collectively known as mujahideen (from Arabic mujāhidūn, “those who engage in jihad”), had united inside Afghanistan, or across the border in Peshawar, Pakistan, to resist the Soviet invaders and the Soviet-backed Afghan army.

The Soviet-Afghanistan war became a focal point of the broader Cold War rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States. The conflict showcased the superpowers’ competition for global influence and served as a proxy battleground.

The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year period involving the Soviet forces and the Mujahideen insurgents that were fighting to overthrow Afghanistan's Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government.

On December 27, 1979, Soviet Union forces stormed the Tajbeg Palace in Afghanistan and killed Afghan President Hafizullah Amin, then installed Babrak Karmal as Amin’s successor. Learning Objective Review the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the challenges it faced

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 triggered a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Soviet invasion was also met with widespread opposition from the Afghan people, who viewed it as an unwarranted act of aggression by a foreign power.