1980

• 5 January – UN Security Council convenes a meeting on Afghanistan and 13 out of 15 members demand the withdrawal of Soviet troops.

• 14 January – UN General Assembly passes a Resolution with 104 supporting, 18 opposing and 18 abstention votes for the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

• 20 January – President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Moscow-held Olympics unless USSR withdraws from Afghanistan.

• 22 February – Thousands of Kabul inhabitants take to the streets protesting Soviet presence. Hundreds are fired upon and killed by the Red Army.

• 21 April – Kabul University and numerous high school students stage massive protest against the Soviet invasion.

• 20 November – UN General Assembly passes second Resolution with 111 supporting, 22 opposing and 12 abstention votes for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

1981

• 2 February – UN Human Rights Commission discusses human rights violations in Afghanistan.

• 25 February – Organization of the Islamic Conference convenes in Saudi Arabia and demands withdrawal of the Red Army from Afghanistan.

• 10 June – Sultan Ali Keshtmand becomes the new Prime Minister of the Communist regime.

• 18 November – UN General Assembly passes third Resolution with 116 supporting, 23 opposing and 12 abstention votes for the withdrawal of Soviet troops.

• 16 December – Babrak Karmal awards Leonid Brezhnev the Medal of Freedom (highest Afghan prize) on his second trip to Moscow.

• 27 December- US President Ronald Reagan proposes Afghan New Year’s day (March 21) as a day of solidarity with the Afghan people.

1982

• 22 February – The newly-elected UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar appoints his Deputy Diego Cordovez as his Special Representative for Afghanistan.

• March 21 – Afghanistan Day is celebrated in many world capitals with numerous demonstrations organized to seek the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

• 16 June – First round of indirect talks between officials of the Kabul and Islamabad regimes under the supervision of Diego Cordovez, UNSG Special Representative for Afghanistan is convened in Geneva.

• 29 November – UN General Assembly passes a Resolution with 114 supporting, 21 opposing and 13 abstention votes in support of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

1983

• Mohammad Zahir Shah, the former King of Afghanistan, declares (from Rome) that there is a resistance in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation.

• 12 June – Second round of indirect talks are convened in Geneva.

• 23 November – UN General Assembly passes a fifth Resolution with 116 supporting, 20 opposing and 17 abstention votes for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

• 15 December – Ten resistance commanders in northern provinces adopt a joint politico-military strategy against the Red Army.

1984

• 16 January – The fourth assembly of the Heads of State Organization of the Islamic Conference convenes in Casablanca and demands the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

• 21 April – The Red Army and PDPA forces launch their seventh major assault against the Panjsher Valley.

• 24 August – The fourth round of the indirect Geneva talks is convened.

• 15 November – The UN General Assembly passes a sixth Resolution on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan with 119 supporting and 20 opposing votes.

1985

• 25 February – Mikail Gorbachev inaugurates the 27 th session of the Soviet Communist Party meeting and labels Afghanistan “a bleeding wound”.

• 17 May – The Red Army supported by PDPA forces launches major attacks in Kunar Province.

• 29 August – The fifth round of indirect Geneva talks are convened.

• 17 October – As the Spokesperson of the Peshawar-based Mujahideen political parties, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar participates for the first time at 40 th annual session of the UN General Assembly.

• 13 November – The UN General Assembly passes a seventh Resolution on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan with 122 supporting, 19 opposing and 12 abstention votes.

• 16 December – The second session of the fifth round of indirect talks between Kabul and Islamabad regimes is convened in Geneva.

1986

• 21 April -- The United States declares its readiness to provide anti-aircraft Stinger missiles to the Afghan Mujahideen.

• 3 May – Babrak Karmal writes a written request to resign as the Secretary-General of the Communist party.

• 4 May – The 18 th Assembly of the Central Committee of the Communist Party selects Dr. Najibullah as the new Secretary-General.

• 5 May – The sixth round of the indirect Geneva talks between the Kabul and Islamabad regimes begins.

• 16 June -- Four Peshawar-based Afghan resistance leaders headed by the spokesperson Burhanuddin Rabbani, meet with U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the White House.

• 18 July – A regime-staged Court proceeding in Kabul sentences to death without their presence resistance Commanders Ahmad Shah Massoud, Panah Khan, Ismail Khan, Alaudin Khan, Haqqani and Sayed Mansour Hussainyar.

• 28 July – Mikhail Gorbachev announces in Vladivostok the withdrawal of six Red Army regiments from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

• 31 July – The seventh round of the indirect Geneva Talks between representatives of the Kabul and Islamabad regimes begins.

• 25 September – The first anti-aircraft Stinger missile is put to use near Jalalabad airport.

• 5 November – UN General Assembly passes an eighth Resolution on the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan with 122 votes in favor.

1987

• 25 February – The eighth round of the indirect Geneva talks between Pakistani and Kabul officials begins.

• 11 July – A large number of resistance commanders convene a council in Ghor under the leadership of Ismail Khan.

• 10 November – UN General Assembly passes a Resolution on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan with 123 votes in favor, 19 opposing and 11 abstentions.

1988

• 12 April -- The Geneva Accords are signed between representatives from US, USSR, Pakistan and Afghanistan, establishing the basis for Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

• 18 May – First convoy of Soviet troops withdrawing from Afghanistan cross the Amu Darya ( Oxus River).

• 14 December -- For the first time, the Afghan resistance leaders headed by Burhanuddin Rabbani, meets with a Soviet delegation in Taif ( Saudi Arabia).

1989

• 27 January – Most European countries and Japan close their embassies in Kabul.

• 15 February – With crossing of Soviet General Gromov over the Oxus River, the Soviet Union completes withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan.

• 24 February – Sibghatullah Mojadedi becomes the first President of the Resistance Government.

• 8 March --The nine-week battle for liberation of Jalalabad begins, marking a military fiasco for some factions of the Resistance movement.

• 10 March – Saudi Arabia is the first country to recognize the new resistance Government-in-exile.

• 13 March -- Khost is captured by Mujahideen after a fierce battle.

• 7 April – The US appointed Peter Tomsen as Ambassador to the Resistance Government.

• 9 July - Ahmad Shad Massoud presides over a five-day strategy seminar. After this, thirty members of Jamiat are brutally massacred by Hekmatyar's Hezb-e-Islami chieftain Sayyed Jamal at Takhar's Farkhar Gorge.

• 5 August – During a press conference Gulbuddin Hekmatyar states that the new Resistance Government lacks credibility and resigns as foreign minister.