KABUL and suffered defeat at the hands of Afghan people after 10 years of bloody war and the soviet finally withdraw its forces from Afghanistan.
On December 27, 1979, some 120,000 Soviet troops backed by helicopters, fighters jets, and tanks invaded Afghanistan and installed a puppet Babrak Karmal in place of communist president Hafizullah Amin, sparking an ill-fated conflict that lasted nine years and resulted in the death of one million Afghans.
