The alliance, whose forces have occupied Kabul, is composed chiefly of ethnic Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras.
With his principal commander prepared to occupy Kabul, Burhanuddin Rabbani was positioned to prevail by default.
But if the Northern Alliance does not occupy Kabul, which security force will bring order to the city?
October: British occupy Kabul.
Ten years after the Soviet Army occupied Kabul, its troops have retreated across the northern border - a significant victory for the Afghan people and the United States.
She could put them, the neighbor said, into an orphanage run by the Soviet Union, which was then occupying Kabul.
They did not wait, however, and occupied Kabul without major problems.
When Babur occupied Kabul and began invading the Indian subcontinent, he was called a Mughal like all the earlier invaders from the Chagatai Khanate.
After a battle at Charasiab, Roberts occupied Kabul on October 12.
After some delay and desultory fighting, he and his uncle, Azam Khan, occupied Kabul (March 1866).