This is a list of wars involving Afghanistan.
Conflict | Afghanistan and allies | Opponents | Results | Details | |
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Hotak dynasty (1709–1738) | |||||
Campaigns of Nader Shah (1720s–1747) |
Contents | Empires of Persia:![]() (prior to 1736) ![]()
| Persian victory | Persian victory
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Battle of Gulnabad (1722) | Hotaki victory | ||||
Siege of Isfahan (1722) | Hotaki victory | ||||
Treaty of Hamedan |
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Battle of Damghan (1729) | Safavid victory | Safavid victory
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Battle of Khwar Pass (1729) | Safavid victory | Safavid victory
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Battle of Murche-Khort (1729) |
| Safavid victory | Safavid victory | ||
Battle of Zarghan (1730) |
| Safavid victory | |||
Herat campaign of 1730–1732 (1731-1732) |
| Safavid victory [3] [4] | Safavid victory [5] [6]
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Siege of Kandahar (1737-1738) | Afsharid victory | Afsharid victory
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Sadozai Sultanate of Herat (1716–1732) | |||||
Battle of Sangan (1727) | Abdali Afghans | Safavid victory | Safavid victory
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Herat Campaign of 1729 | Safavid victory [7] |
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Battle of Kafer Qal'eh (1729) |
| Safavid victory [9] | |||
Durrani Empire (1747–1823) | |||||
Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani |
| Other states: | Durrani victory | ||
Durrani victory | |||||
Battle of Manupur | Mughal victory | ||||
Afghan–Sikh Wars (1748–1837) |
| | Inconclusive | Inconclusive
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Afghan victory | |||||
Sack of Delhi (1757) | Durrani victory | Durrani victory | |||
Battle of Narela | Durrani victory [12] | ||||
Battle of Narela | Afghan Empire | Mughal Empire (nominal) | Afghan victory: | Afghan victory:
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Durrani victory [13] | |||||
Battle of Barari Ghat (1760) | Durrani-Rohilla victory | ||||
Battle of Sikandarabad (1760) | Durrani victory | ||||
Third Battle of Panipat (1761) | | Durrani victory [15] |
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Battle of Nimla (1809) | Coalition of Shah Mahmud | Mahmud Coalition victory | Mahmud Coalition victory
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Battle of Kafir Qala (1818) | Inconclusive [16] | ||||
Emirate of Herat (1793–1863) | |||||
First Herat War (1837–1838) |
Supported by: ![]() ![]() ![]() | Supported by: | Iranian withdrawal | ||
Herat campaign (1862-1863) |
| Afghan victory | Afghan victory
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Emirate of Kabul (1823-1855) Emirate of Afghanistan (1855-1926) | |||||
Dost Mohammad's Campaign to Jalalabad (1834) | Amirs of Jalalabad | Barakzai Afghan victory | |||
Expedition of Shuja ul-Mulk (1833-1834) | Durranis | Barakzai Afghan victory | Barakzai Afghan victory
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First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–1842) | Barakzais | Durranis | Barakzai Afghan victory | ||
Khost rebellion (1856–1857) | ![]() | Rebel tribes
| Government victory | Rebellion suppressed | |
Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) |
| Anglo-Afzalid victory | Anglo-Afzalid victory
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Russian conquest of Central Asia (1885) |
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| Russian victory | Russian victory
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Panjdeh incident (1885 [a] ) | Defeat |
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1888–1893 Hazara uprisings | ![]() | Hazara people | Afghan victory | Killing and displacement of 60% of the Hazara people's population including 35,000 families that fled to northern Afghanistan, Mashhad (Qajar Iran) and Quetta [23] | |
Khost rebellion (1912) | Rebel tribes | Government victory | |||
Basmachi movement (1916–1930) |
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Supported by:
| Soviet-Afghan victory | Soviet-Afghan victory
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Khost rebellion (1912) | Rebel tribes | Government victory | |||
Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) | Inconclusive | ||||
Alizai rebellion of 1923 [note 1] | Alizai rebels | Government victory | |||
Khost rebellion (1924–c. early 1925) | Allied tribes: | Rebel tribes | Afghan government victory | Afghan government victory
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Saqqawist low-level insurgency (1924–1928) | ![]() | ![]() | Escalated into civil war | ||
Urtatagai conflict (1925–1926) |
| Afghan victory | Afghan victory
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Kingdom of Afghanistan (1926–1973) | |||||
First Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) | ![]() Hazara volunteers [32] Various anti-Saqqawist Pashtun tribes
![]() (See 1929 Red Army intervention in Afghanistan ) |
![]() (1929) Shinwari tribesmen (November–December 1928) | Anti-Saqqawist victory | Anti-Saqqawist victory
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Inconclusive [34] | Inconclusive [35]
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Shinwari rebellion (1930) | ![]() | Shinwari tribesmen | Government victory | Rebellion suppressed | |
Kuhistan rebellion (1930) | Saqqawist rebels | Government victory | |||
Battle of Herat [36] (1931) | ![]() | ![]() | Government victory | Saqqawists wiped out | |
Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947 |
| Rebel tribes: | Afghan government victory | ||
1945 Hazara Rebellion (1945–1946) | Hazara rebels | Rebellion failed [37] | Rebellion failed [38]
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Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes (1949–present) | |
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Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978) | |||||
Panjshir Valley uprising (1975 [40] ) | Afghan government victory | Afghan government victory
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Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978–1987) | |||||
Saur Revolution (1978) | PDPA victory | PDPA victory
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Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) | ![]() ![]() | ![]() ![]() | Defeat | Afghan mujahideen victory
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Republic of Afghanistan (1987–1992) | |||||
Second Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) | ![]() Supported by:
| Independent Factions:
Foreign Mujahideen: Various factions also fought among each other Supported by: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Afghan Interim Government victory |
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Islamic State of Afghanistan (1992–2001) | |||||
Third Afghan Civil War (1992–1996) | ![]()
Supported by: | ![]() ![]()
Regional Kandahar Militia Leaders
| Military stalemate in Northern Afghanistan |
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001) | |||||
Fourth Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) | ![]() | ![]() | Stalemate |
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001–2021) | |||||
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) | Invasion (2001): | Invasion (2001): | American-led coalition victory (Phase 1) |
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ISAF/RS phase (2001–2021):
| ISAF/RS phase (2001–2021):
RS phase (2015–2021): ![]()
| Taliban victory (Phase 2) |
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (2021–present) | |||||
Islamic State–Taliban conflict (2015–present) |
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Republican insurgency in Afghanistan (2021–present) | ![]() ![]() Supported by: ![]() | ![]()
Supported by: Independent militias | Ongoing |
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History of Afghanistan |
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Nāder Shah Afšār, the successor of the Safavids, recaptured Herat in 1729, and it remained a part of the Persian state throughout his reign
Nāder Shah Afšār, the successor of the Safavids, recaptured Herat in 1729, and it remained a part of the Persian state throughout his reign
Allāhyār Khan lost battles at Kāfer Qaḷʿa (present-day Eslām Qaḷʿa) and Rebāṭ-e Parīān, fell back on Herat, and was soon obliged to surrender.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)For years, Afghanistan and Pakistan have accused each other of border infringements, but fighting has been rare.
The era of ISI action in Afghanistan now began. A first large scale operation in 1975 was encouragement of large scale rebellion in the Panjshir valley.
The president Khan revived adversarial stance not only toward Pakistan, but to the sponsor, USSR. First Daoud Khan set off proxy war in Pakistan, but in retaliation faced growing Islamic fundamentalists movement within Afghanistan
By 1976, while proxy guerilla war with Pakistan, Daoud faced rising Islamic fundamentalists movement led by exiled cleric aided openly by Pakistani prime minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)The group had recently aligned itself with the government, and fighters were sent to Niazi as part of an uprising force to secure a number of Herat districts.
A spokesperson for China's foreign ministry, Wang Wenbin, on Thursday denied the accusation, calling it a 'smear and slander against China' that was 'completely nonsense' and 'fake news'.
The Pakistani military and intelligence agencies maintain extensive networks within Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora, which they leverage to support resistance movements opposed to the Taliban. Groups such as the National Resistance Front (NRF), which challenge the Taliban's authority in various parts of the country, often look to Pakistan for support in their efforts.
Pakistani media handles, believed to be acting as mouthpieces of the Pakistan Army, declared that the ISI was now engaging rag-tag Afghan resistance groups based in Tajikistan, like the National Resistance Front (NRF). They pointed to the sudden increase in activity of the NRF and other anti-Taliban groups in Afghanistan, hinting that this was, in part, because Pakistan had started backing these groups as payback for the Taliban backing the TTP.