Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami

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Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami (Islamic Revolutionary Forces) was a traditionalist Afghan mujahedeen group fighting against Soviet forces from 1980 to 1988, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi was the leader of the group. It operated Southern Afghan Provinces of Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Paktika, and Wardak. It was not as strong a group as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-i-Islami or Ahmed Shah Massoud's Jamiat-i-Islami.

Most of the Taliban's members, including spiritual leader of the Taliban Mohammed Omar, were from this group. This group is not active and was dissolved during the period of the Afghan Civil War (1989–1996). The leader Mohammed Nabi Mohamadi died in Pakistan.