After the Taliban seize Kabul on September…

October 1996 CE

After the Taliban seize Kabul on September 27, 1996, Dostum joins in a loose anti-Taliban alliance with ousted government commander Ahmad Shah Massoud and a Shiite Muslim militia.

Declared president of the Supreme Defense Council of Afghanistan, which includes most major groups in the country except for the Taliban, Dostum is backed politically by Russia and other former Soviet republics of central Asia.

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Mazar-e Sharif Balkh Afghanistan View →

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Uzbeks View → Hizb-i Wahdat (Hazara militia in Afghanistan) View → Russian Federation View → Northern Alliance, the (United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan) View → Taliban Movement View → Afghanistan, Islamic Emirate of View →

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