April 1992
Deprived of Soviet support following the USSR's dissolution, President Najibullah's government finally collapsed in April 1992. He took refuge in the UN compound in Kabul, where he would remain for four years until the Taliban overran the city in 1996. The Mujahideen factions immediately turned on each other, beginning a brutal civil war that killed tens of thousands of Kabul's civilians and set the stage for Taliban rule.