Last Soviet Troops Leave Key Afghan City
MOSCOW — The last Soviet troops pulled out of the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Sunday and arrived in Kabul, the capital, the official Tass news agency reported.
The move prompted speculation over an impending rebel attack. Guerrilla forces have said they would invade Jalalabad, a strategic northeastern city, once the Soviet troops were gone.
Tass said withdrawal of the convoy left no Soviet troops in the province of Nangarhar, in northeast Afghanistan.
The convoy will rest in Kabul before traveling an additional 200 miles to the Soviet city of Termez.
The brief Tass dispatch did not say how many troops were in the convoy, the latest in a series to make the 88-mile trip to Kabul from Jalalabad.
Under an agreement signed in Geneva last month, an estimated 115,000 Soviet soldiers in Afghaniare to be gone within nine months.
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