6th Corps (Afghanistan)
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6th Corps (Afghanistan)
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The 6th Corps was a corps of the Afghan Army, seemingly active from 1990 to around 2003–2004. Created as a military formation of the PDPA's standing army, it degraded into a grouping of militias by its last years. Abdul Rashid Dostum had previously commanded the Jozjani militia, which later became the 53rd Infantry Division. Numbering 40,000 men drawn from the Uzbek minority, it took its orders directly from Mohammad Najibullah. It was later termed as the 'only real mobile reserve' available to
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2013-08-10T04:11:42Z
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2024-09-10T22:43:47Z
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