Afghan War (1978–92), internal conflict between the Afghan communist government, initially aided by Soviet troops, and anticommunist Islamic guerrillas known collectively as mujahideen. The government fell in 1992, but the coalition of mujahideen fragmented and continued to fight one another in the years that followed.
Mujahideen, members of a number of guerrilla groups during the Afghan War (1978–92) that opposed the invading Soviet forces and eventually toppled the Afghan communist government. Rival factions thereafter fell out among themselves, precipitating the rise of one faction, the Taliban.
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