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Invasion of Afghanistan
History of Afghanistan
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| | 1868 | Rahman, Abdur | |
| The Russians send Rahman into Afghanistan with 200 rifles & some financial support |
| 1879 | Muhammad Ya'qub | |
| Britain invades Afghanistan after the massacre of the legation in Kabul |
| 1979 | Amin, Hafizullah | |
| 24th Dec Kabul Russia invades after Amin's unpopularity & failure to suppress the guerrillas |
| 1979 | Andropov, Yuri |  |
| A special commission on Afghanistan, of KGB chairman Yuri Andropov, Ponomaryev from the Central Committee and Dmitry Ustinov, the Minister of Defence |
| 1979 | Karmal, Babrak | |
| 27th Dec Kabul Broadcasts an appeal for Soviet help from a radio station within Russia |
| 27th Dec Kabul The AfghanRevolutionary Central Committee elects as head of government former Deputy Prime Minister Babrak Karmal |
| 1979 | Ustinov, Dmitry | |
| A special commission on Afghanistan, of KGB chairman Yuri Andropov, Ponomaryev from the Central Committee and Dmitry Ustinov, the Minister of Defence |
| 1980 | Karmal, Babrak | |
| The UN General Assembly votes by 104 to 18 with 18 abstentions for a resolution which "strongly deplores" the "recent armed intervention" in Afghanistan and calls for the "total withdrawal" |
| 15th Feb Islamabad The foreign ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference deplore the invasion and demand Soviet withdrawal at a meeting in Islamabad |
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