Operation Typhoon (1989)

Operation Typhoon
Date January 23–26, 1989 (3 days) Location Parwan, Baghlan, Kunduz, Afghanistan Result Soviet-Afghan victory
Belligerents
Soviet Union  Republic of Afghanistan (1987-1992)	Mujahideen Jamiat-e Islami
Strength
Unknown	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown but very light	600 Mujahideen fighters More than 1,000 Afghan civilians

Operation Typhoon is the penultimate planned military operation of Soviet troops during the Soviet–Afghan War. It was carried out from January 23, 1989, to January 26, 1989, in the provinces of Parwan, Baghlan, and Kunduz with the aim of "causing as much damage as possible to the opposition forces in the central and northern provinces of the country".^[1][2]

A combined arms operation of units and units of the 108th and 201st motorized rifle divisions and other units of OKSVA on a wide front of the provinces of Parwan, Baghlan, Kunduz with the aim of stabilizing the military-political situation in the northeastern zone of the Republic of Afghanistan before the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the DRA.^[3] Soviets flew over 1,000 sorties against the Mujahedeen targets, next to conducting hundreds of artillery strikes. This operation, dubbed "Operation Typhoon," killed over 600 of Masooud's fighters, according to Soviet estimates.

The command of the operation was carried out by Lieutenant General B.V. Gromov