Explanation:

The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, FOUGHT a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government for over nine years, THROUGHOUT the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside. The mujahideen were backed primarily by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Kingdom making it a Cold War proxy war. Between 562,000[34] and 2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees,[35][36][38][39] mostly to Pakistan and Iran.

Soviet–Afghan War

Part of the Cold War and the continuous Afghanistan conflict

Mortar attack on Shigal Tarna garrison, Kunar Province, 87.jpg

Mujahideen fighters in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan in 1987

Date December 24, 1979 – February 15, 1989

(9 years, 1 month, 3 weeks and 1 day)

LOCATION

Afghanistan

Result

Mujahideen victory

Soviet failure to quell the Afghan mujahideen insurgency

Geneva Accord (1988)

Withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan

Continuation of the Afghan Civil War without Soviet troops[19] and Mujahideen victory in 1992