Tajbeg Palace assault

When

27 Dec 1979

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

34.45° N, 69.11° E

Description

1979 Soviet assassination of Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin

1979 Soviet assassination of Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin

Operation Storm-333 was a military raid executed by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979. Special forces and airborne troops stormed the heavily fortified Tajbeg Palace in Kabul and assassinated Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, a Khalqist of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who had taken power in the Saur Revolution of April 1978. It was the start of the Soviet–Afghan War.

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• Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Afghanistan : après trois jours d’intenses combats l’Armée rouge prend possession de Kaboul”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Штурм дворца Амина, в ходе которого бойцы советского спецназа «Альфа» убили президента Афганистана Хафизуллу Амина”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operación Tormenta-333 (tropas soviéticas asesinan al dictador afgano Hafizullah Amín)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “蘇聯軍隊發動333風暴行動，杀死阿富汗人民民主党总书记哈菲佐拉·阿明，巴布拉克·卡尔迈勒成为新任总书记。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page