National_Coalition_of_Afghanistan
National Coalition of Afghanistan
Political party in Afghanistan
The National Coalition of Afghanistan (Persian: ائتلاف ملی, Etelaf-e Milli; previously known as the Coalition for Change and Hope), was a political coalition in Afghanistan led by Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's former foreign minister (2001–2005) and main challenger of President Hamid Karzai in the 2009 Afghan presidential elections. Abdullah Abdullah was a close friend of the Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud who was assassinated two days before the September 11 attacks.
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Besides the National Front of Afghanistan, the National Coalition acted as the leading democratic opposition movement against the governments of Hamid Karzai[1][2] and Ashraf Ghani. Abdullah Abdullah was supported among others by the governor of Balkh province, Ustad Atta Mohammad Noor. Both Abdullah and Atta Noor derive from the Jamiat-e Islami like National Front of Afghanistan chairman Ahmad Zia Massoud and former intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh.
The coalition ended with the Taliban takeover of Kabul in 2021.