Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
partof=the Soviet war in Afghanistan
caption=A column of Soviet BTR-80s during the withdrawal.
date=May 15, 1988 - February 15, 1989
place=Afghanistan
casus=
territory=
result=Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan; Afghan Civil War continues.
combatant1=flagicon|USSR Soviet Union
combatant2=Afghan Mujahideen
commander1=Boris Gromov
commander2=Various
strength1=
strength2=
casualties1=523 killed [cite web|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/07/17/GR2007071700070.html
title=How Not to End a War]
casualties2=Unknown
Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the Accords of 14 April 1988, signed three instruments-on principles of mutual relations, in particular noninterference and non-intervention, on the voluntary return of Afghan refugees, and on interrelationships for the settlement, which provided for phased withdrawal of foreign troops to begin on 15 May. The United States and the USSR also signed a declaration on international guarantees, stating they would both refrain from any form of interference and intervention.
In the first three-month period, it was reported that some 50,183 foreign troops had withdrawn. Another 50,100 left between 15 August 1988 and 15 February 1989.
The whole time during the withdrawal over the border troop convoys were coming under attack by Afghan fighters. In all 523 Soviet soldiers were killed during the withdrawal.
The total withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Afghanistan was completed on 15 February 1989, in compliance with the terms of the Geneva Accords signed 10 months earlier.
In a symbolic move, Lt. Gen. Boris Gromov walked from Afghanistan back into Soviet territory.
References
External links
*cite web|last=Grau |first=Lester |url=http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/documents/Withdrawal.pdf
title="Breaking contact without leaving chaos: the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan"|publisher= [http://leav-www.army.mil/fmso/ Foreign Military Studies Office Publications] |accessdate=2007-08-17
*Marshall, A.(2006); " [http://www.defac.ac.uk/colleges/csrc/document-listings/ca/06%2829%29AM.pdf Phased Withdrawal, Conflict Resolution and State Reconstruction] "; Conflict Research Studies Centre; ISBN 1 905058-74-8
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