W010277

RR8030A - Afghanistan Report

WTN

Afghanistan - 1980 and file

Against the background to the boycott-affected Olympic Games in Moscow, the main cause of the boycott - the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan - shows little sign of ending. The contingent of Soviet troops withdrawn by Moscow appears to have been replaced by others, and the main cities and roads are under the control of Russian and Afghan government forces. Outlying towns and villages sympathetic to the anti-Communist Moslem guerrillas - the Mujaheddin - have been bombed, forcing the fighters deep into the mountains. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have crossed into Pakistan to avoid the fighting, and Mujaheddin groups wanting to return and fight find it increasingly difficult to do so because of the massive Soviet presence.

Traders and refugees at Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Wounded Afghans in Khyber hospital

Small party crosses mountains into Afghanistan

W018359

1980 News Review

WTN

Afghanistan - 1980

Soviet troops and tanks invade Afghanistan

Rebels in mountains with guns

Babrak Karmal

Soviet tanks and gunships in mountains

Injured Afghans

Afghan refugees flee across Pakistan

Afghan refugees in tents

W018360

1981 News Review

WTN

Afghanistan - 1981

Afghanistan - Guerillas with guns

Mortar firing

Mortars being loaded

Guerillas - machine gunners and riflemen

W010277

RR8030A - Afghanistan Report

WTN

Afghanistan - 1980 and file

Against the background to the boycott-affected Olympic Games in Moscow, the main cause of the boycott - the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan - shows little sign of ending. The contingent of Soviet troops withdrawn by Moscow appears to have been replaced by others, and the main cities and roads are under the control of Russian and Afghan government forces. Outlying towns and villages sympathetic to the anti-Communist Moslem guerrillas - the Mujaheddin - have been bombed, forcing the fighters deep into the mountains. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have crossed into Pakistan to avoid the fighting, and Mujaheddin groups wanting to return and fight find it increasingly difficult to do so because of the massive Soviet presence.

Traders and refugees at Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Wounded Afghans in Khyber hospital

Small party crosses mountains into Afghanistan

W018359

1980 News Review

WTN

Afghanistan - 1980

Soviet troops and tanks invade Afghanistan

Rebels in mountains with guns

Babrak Karmal

Soviet tanks and gunships in mountains

Injured Afghans

Afghan refugees flee across Pakistan

Afghan refugees in tents

W018360

1981 News Review

WTN

Afghanistan - 1981

Afghanistan - Guerillas with guns

Mortar firing

Mortars being loaded

Guerillas - machine gunners and riflemen