Afghanistan National Liberation Front

The Afghanistan National Liberation Front (NLF) was a resistance movement formed in the early 1970s to oppose the Communist government in Afghanistan, which came to power through a coup in 1978. Supported by external actors like Pakistan and the United States, the NLF aimed to restore traditional, non-Communist Afghan rule. It included various anti-Communist factions fighting both the government forces and Soviet troops that intervened in 1979. The NLF played a key role in the broader resistance during the Soviet-Afghan War, contributing to the eventual withdrawal of Soviet forces in 1989.