Afghanistan Mujahedin Freedom Fighters Front | |
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جبهه مبارزين مجاهد افغانستان | |
Leaders | Mulavi Dawood |
Dates of operation | 1979–unknown |
Group(s) | Islamic Revolutionary Movement of Afghanistan Afghanistan Liberation Organization Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan Sazman-e-al-Jihad Society for the Defense of Islam National Liberation Front |
Ideology | Afghan nationalism Anti-imperialism Anti-Soviet Anti-PDPA Factions: Maoism Islamism |
Political position | Big tent |
Allies | China |
Opponents | Soviet Union Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin |
Battles and wars | 1979 uprisings in Afghanistan Soviet-Afghan War |
Afghanistan Mujahedin Freedom Fighters Front (Persian: جبهه مبارزين مجاهد افغانستان, AMFF) was a united front of four Afghan paramilitary factions including the Revolutionary Group of the Peoples of Afghanistan (RGPA, later named Afghanistan Liberation Organization [ALO]) and the Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (SAMA)—together with Traditionalists Islamists including the Afghanistan National Liberation Front, in June 1979.[1] They set aside their ideological differences in the fight against a common enemy. The Front fought against the pro-Soviet government and later also the Soviet Army during the Soviet–Afghan War.