The World - News from July 31, 1985
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Anti-Marxist Afghan guerrillas blasted a major Soviet air base in Kabul with rockets and claimed to have destroyed two transport planes. Western sources in Islamabad, Pakistan, confirmed the attack on the Soviet air base and military complex in the Afghan capital, calling it one of the biggest raids in years. Reports from Kabul said Soviet forces responded with heavy artillery fire and ground-to-ground rockets.
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