Get Nebula with 50% off annual subscription with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realtimehistory Watch Mad Kings on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/madkings?ref=realtimehistory After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the various mujahedeen factions and Afghanistan's neighbours Pakistan, Iran and the USSR are still vying for control. With new weapons still streaming in, some factions are not willing to compromise to achieve their vision of peace and thus Afghanistan descents into civil war. » SUPPORT US https://patreon.com/realtimehistory https://nebula.tv/realtimehistory » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Mike Gloudemans, George Durrett, Luis Gonzalez, Mike Cumings, Jr., Charles Shananaquet II, Joel Sanchez, shane cawthon, Andrew Thomas Mooney, Chris Rohde, Bruce D, Jim Frame, Glenn Sugden, Lisa Anderson, George Haramundanis, G S, Kempf Mario, jhgBo8jigr hzufjkl, Gayle Elizabeth, Glenn G Webb, Stephen D Nugent PsyD, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Simen Røste, Amy Williams, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, Josh Bruder, Konstantin Bredyuk, Richard L Benkin, Matt, Rob Carle, Murray Godfrey, Jan, Gage Manthey, Theodore Patrick Shannon, Bruce G. Hearns, Stephanie Schindhelm, Paul Wilcox, Brad Durbin, Fogeltje, » SOURCES Anas, Abdullah. “To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan.” Hurst & Company, 2018. Braithwaite, Rodric. "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89" Oxford University Press, 2011. Coll, Steve. "Ghost Wars: The secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001" Penguin, 2004 Collins, Joseph J. “Understanding War in Afghanistan” National Defense University Press, 2011. Gall, Sandy. “Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud” Haus Publishing, 2021. Hershberg, James G. (ed.). “CWIHP Bulletin No. 8/9 (Winter 1996): The Cold War in the Third World and the Collapse of Detente in the 1970s” Cold War International History Project, 1996. Jalali, Ali Ahmad. "A military history of Afghanistan: from the Great Game to the Global War on Terror" University Press of Kansas, 2017. Maley, William. “The Afghanistan Wars – Third Edition” Red Globe Press, 2021. Kaplan, Robert D. “Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan” Vintage Books, 2001. Rashid, Ahmed. „Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond” I.B Tauris, 2010 Tomsen, Peter. “The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers” PublicAffairs, 2011. »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller Editing: Philipp Appelt Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Florian Wittig Fact checking: Florian Wittig Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images, picture alliance, and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. We do not use generative AI to create new assets. However, we may use AI tools to upscale or clean up certain assets without distorting or compromising the original image. All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2026
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This was super helpful, thanks!
Whoever was part of the civil war has to be punished and be in jail. Masoud, Gulbufen, Mazaary and Dudto.
Najib the Ox was the last good Afghan leader. He was the glue that held Afghanistan together. Its a shame what happened to him and the Afghan people.
documented nicely
Afghans has so much potential but gets crushed with its corrupt leaders.
5:30 - (paraphrasing): “It’s dumb to take cities in a war in Afghanistan, take everything else.” That phrase and idea-set was apparently 100% UNKNOWN to US military leaders and planners. IF this had been u defs food in 2001, the Occupation would have gone VERY differently. Instead we did EXACTLY what we shouldn’t have. We SHOULD have Ignored Saddam for a few years, and dropped 150,000-200,000 soldiers on ONLY Afghanistan. Clearibf the extremists would have been like getting everything out of a stubborn toothpaste tube. You would t always appear to make progress, and it would ALWAYS require patience, but EVENTUALLY you’d build a civil society that would “stick”. IRL, our effort failed because we never really built anything permanent, as had been done in Japan, Germany, etc.
2:23 - The USA back in the 80s: Regan: “So wait, who’re we giving all these weapons to?” Answer form Ollie North: “they’re conservative Muslims…..” Regan: “Conservative you say….good, good. Send them 1000 more stingers.” North: “uhhh….yes sir….”(shudders involuntarily.)
Rakitiyar/Hekmatyar was/is evil. After Mujaheedin and people of Afghanistan got victory from the Soviet, they built a transition goverment with Rakitiyar as the prime Minister and Commander Massoud as the Defense Minister but Rakitiyar listened to the Satan/iSI and bombed Kabul and butchered his own People just because he wanted to have it all alone. May Allah punish this evil man in both life.
Interesting docs
Hekmatyar - one of the worst people in afghanistan. There rumours at one point that he was a soivet/communist double agent because he made more efforts to fight other afghans rather than soviets
Correction Sayyaf masscared over a 1000 Hazara and Shia in Afshar (Afshar massacre) with the support of Massoud himself and his faction (shura-e-nizar)
There has never been a reliable demographic census done in Afghanistan, so according to which source are you flat out saying that Pashtuns are the largest ethnicity?
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Plz due Philippine American war
What source are you using to say that Tajiks are a minority in Afghanistan and that Pashtuns are the majority? Could you please share that source with me?
Afghanistan is in civil war from past 500 years... They are addicted to fighting..
In afghan american. My parents fled in the 80s. Even for me it’s hard to keep up with all the factions.
Great video, congrats on the 700k subs!
Not Afghan civil war ba-star-ds it is UdSSR‘s occupation
Listen to an Afghan too. What most of these documentaries misinterpret is what was ACTUALLY going on after the Soviet withdrawal. There is a video called Operation Jalalabad in my account. That will help you understand that Afghans were not fighting each other. It was PAK - the root of problems in Afghanistan, even until today.