The Afghan mujahideen (Pashto: افغان مجاهدين; Dari: مجاهدین افغان) were Islamist resistance groups that fought against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan...

guerrilla-type militant groups led by the Islamist Afghan fighters in the Soviet–Afghan War (see Afghan mujahideen). The term now extends to other jihadist groups...

United States). It is also known as the Afghan jihad, especially by the non-Afghan volunteers of the Mujahideen. In the 19th century, the British Empire...

The 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War, also known as the First Afghan Civil War, took place between the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the...

This list shows military equipment used by the mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War. The Mujahideen obtained weapons from many sources, mostly supplied...

Afghan Arabs (also known as Arab-Afghans; Arabic: أفغان عرب, romanized: Afghān ʻArab) are Arab and other Muslim Islamist mujahideen who came to Afghanistan...

by the seven Afghan mujahideen parties fighting against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan forces in the Soviet–Afghan War. The alliance...

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention...

battles from 1980 to 1985 between the Soviet Army, the Afghan Armed Forces and groups of Afghan mujahideen under Ahmad Shah Massoud. The goal of these offensives...

diplomacy between his PDPA government and the rebelling Islamists of the Afghan mujahideen. In the context of the Cold War, the dynamic of the Soviet Union–United...