The last Red Army soldier leaves Afghanistan. Officially some 15,000 Soviet soldiers died.
Unofficial estimates say many more died.
Mujahedeen repulsed after staging coordinated attacks in Jalalabad. Najibullah, who many predicted would fall within days after the Soviet withdrawal, foils coup attempt. Najibullah resigns and takes refuge in a UN compound. Sibghatullah Mujaddedi forms government with his interim term fixed at two months under the Peshawar agreement. Factional in-fighting claims some 60,000 civilian lives over the next two years.