Abdul Rasul Sayyaf
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Abdulrab Rasul Sayyaf is an exiled Afghan politician and former mujahideen commander. He took part in the war against the Marxist–Leninist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government in the 1980s, leading the Afghan mujahideen faction Ittehad-al-Islami.
Sayyaf in 1984
Sayyaf (left) as an Afghan Mujahid commander in 1984
Afghan mujahideen
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The Afghan mujahideen (Pashto: افغان مجاهدين) were Islamist resistance militias that fought the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War.
Mujahideen rebels of the Yunus Khalis group, 1987
Amin Wardak, a mujahidin commander of Maidan Wardak Province
Mujahidin guerillas in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 1985
Various mujahidin weaponry seized by the Soviet army