DoK, exactly.
It was this halting of fuel shipments that ended the DRA.
Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992)
All the Mujahiden factions were fighting the DRA. Whereas now the NA has become the ANA. There are moves afoot to co-opt the Taliban into power sharing. Good vs. bad taliban thing. But Omar has refused any talks until the Americans leave.
What this means is that the opposition that was present after the Soviets left is smaller come 2014.
Meanwhile, some of the mujahideen benefited from expanded foreign military support from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other nations. The primary beneficiary of U.S. support, delivered through its middleman Pakistan, was Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The primary beneficiaries of Saudi support, especially financial one, were Abdul Rasul Sayyaf and Jalaluddin Haqqani who had had strong contacts to Arab fighters in the war against the Soviets. The U.S. provided Ahmad Shah Massoud with close to no support despite the Wall Street Journal calling him "the Afghan who won the cold war" and was primarily responsible for the mujahideen victory. Part of the reason why he still got only minor support was that the U.S. permitted its funding and arms distribution to be administered by Pakistan, which favored Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who considered himself the archenemy of Massoud. Massoud was also seen as "too independent". Primary advocates for still supporting Massoud instead were State Department's Edmund McWilliams and Peter Tomsen, who were on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Others included two Heritage Foundation foreign policy analysts, Michael Johns and James A. Phillips, both of whom championed Massoud as the Afghan resistance leader most worthy of U.S. support under the Reagan Doctrine.
With the end of the Soviet Union, Najibullah's regime lost all credibility and by 1992, after a Russian decision to end fuel shipments to Afghanistan, Najibullah's regime began to collapse.
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All the Mujahiden factions were fighting the DRA. Whereas now the NA has become the ANA. There are moves afoot to co-opt the Taliban into power sharing. Good vs. bad taliban thing. But Omar has refused any talks until the Americans leave.
What this means is that the opposition that was present after the Soviets left is smaller come 2014.
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