Afghanistan Mujahedin Freedom Fighters Front
جبهه مبارزين مجاهد افغانستان
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Leaders	Mulavi Dawood
Dates of operation	1979–unknown
Group(s)	Islamic Revolution Movement Afghanistan Liberation Organization Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan Sazman-e-al-Jihad Society for the Defense of Islam National Liberation Front
Ideology	Maoism (factions) Moderate Islamism (factions) Anti-PDPA Anti-Soviet
Political position	Big tent
Allies	Revolutionary Group of the Peoples of Afghanistan Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan
Opponents	Soviet Union Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
Battles and wars	1979 uprisings in Afghanistan Bala Hissar uprising Soviet-Afghan War

Afghanistan Mujahedin Freedom Fighters Front (Persian: جبهه مبارزين مجاهد افغانستان, AMFF) was a united front of four Afghan paramilitary factions including the Revolutionary Group of the Peoples of Afghanistan (RGPA, later named Afghanistan Liberation Organization [ALO]) and the Liberation Organization of the People of Afghanistan (SAMA)—together with moderate Islamists including the Afghanistan National Liberation Front, in June 1979.^[1] They set aside their ideological differences in the fight against a common enemy. The Front fought against the pro-Soviet government and later also the Soviet Army during the Soviet–Afghan War.

History

On August 5, 1979, the Front tried to initiate an uprising against the Khalq government. The move, which was brutally crushed, became known as the Bala Hissar uprising.^[2]

The most famous publication of AMFF was called Neither Puppet Regime nor Fundamentalism, Freedom and Democracy!, which was widely distributed across Afghanistan in the early 1980s.

The head of AMFF was Mulavi Dawood, who was abducted and killed by Islamic Party in Peshawar in November 1986.

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