The anti Soviet forces in the Soviet Afgan war Insurgency Sandstorm

Soviet Afgan War
1979-1989
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between the DRA, the Soviet Union and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

The Mujahideen obtained weapons from many sources, mostly supplied by foreign sources,
such as the Central Intelligence Agency’s Operation Cyclone, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel and the United Kingdom,
and channeled through Pakistan. Many weapons were also captured from the Soviet Army or the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
The First revolts against the Communist goverment were carried out with a wide mixture of weapons wich where already at hand. These weapons included
hand to hand fighting, flint rifles, Breach loaders, with Martini-Henris and Lee Enfields dating from the British colonial Era,
Nagants from the Czarist period and soviet weapons.