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1979-1992 Soviet - Afghan War - Operation Cylcone
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-22 at 2.33.28 PM_thumb.png2023-03-22T21:34:42+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911President Reagan meeting with Afghan Mujahideen leaders in the Oval Office in 1983. Operation Cyclone was the codename for the United States 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 by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties, that were favored by the regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups that had also been fighting the Soviet-oriented Democratic Republic of Afghanistan administration since before the Soviet interventionplain2023-03-22T21:34:42+00:001979 - 1992Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49