Following internal problems the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan in December 1979 killing the Khalqist leader Hafizullah Amin during Operation Storm-333 and starting the Soviet-Afghan War.

The new Russian President Boris Yeltsin would soon cut aid in 1992 causing mass starvation and leading to Najibullah to announce his resignation.

Peace did not come however as various warlords fought for control of the capital of Kabul leading to another even bloodier civil war involving bloody urban fighting destroying a third of the relatively untouched city of Kabul, crime was rampant as the dissolution of the Afghan Army and law enforcement had led to a breakdown of civil order.

[5] Poland also contributed troops to Afghanistan in the subsequent Afghan War after the collapse of Taliban rule as part of NATO mission to the country.

[6] The Poles were able to win supports from Afghan locals, but it was hampered by American futile efforts in the war.