Union of Mujahadin

The Union of Mujahadin was an alliance of seven mujahidin groups in Afghanistan. According to Vijay Prashad, Director of the International Studies Program at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, the coalition was founded in 1981, as a coalition of the groups fighting against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. According to Tom Lansford, the author of A bitter harvest: US foreign policy and Afghanistan, the group was formed in 1985. Both Prashad and Lansford asserted the Union was founded under pressure from the United States, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Lansford asserted that the Union's primary backers were Saudi. Prashad identified Osama bin Laden as one of the primary Saudi financial backers.

During his Combatant Status Review Tribunal Guantanamo captive Swar Khan was alleged to have sworn loyalty to the Union of Mujahadin.