List of wars involving Afghanistan

This is a list of wars involving Afghanistan.

Conflict	Afghanistan and allies	Opponents	Results	Details
Hotaki dynasty (1709–1738)
Battle of Gulnabad (1722)	Hotaki dynasty	Safavid Empire	Victory
Siege of Isfahan (1722)	Hotaki dynasty	Safavid Empire	Victory	Abdication of Sultan Husayn, Mahmud Hotak declared Shah of Iran
Ottoman–Hotaki War (1726–1727)	Hotaki dynasty	Ottoman Empire	Treaty of Hamedan
Battle of Damghan (1729)	Hotaki dynasty	Safavid Empire	Defeat
Battle of Khwar Pass (1729)	Hotaki dynasty	Safavid Empire	Defeat	Failure of attempted Ambush on Safavid forces
Battle of Murche-Khort (1729)	Hotaki dynasty	Safavid Empire	Defeat	Safavid liberation of Isfahan
Battle of Zarghan (1730)	Hotaki dynasty	Safavid Empire	Defeat	Afghans Expulsed from Persia
Herat Campaign of 1731 (1731-1732)	Hotaki dynasty Sadozai Sultanate of Herat	Afsharid dynasty	Defeat	End of the Sadozai Sultanate of Herat
Siege of Kandahar (1737-1738)	Hotaki dynasty	Afsharid dynasty	Defeat	End of the Hotak Dynasty
Sadozai Sultanate of Herat (1716–1732)
Battle of Sangan (1727)	Sadozai Sultanate of Herat	Safavid Empire	Defeat
Herat Campaign of 1729 (1729)	Sadozai Sultanate of Herat	Safavid Empire	Defeat
Battle of Kafer Qal'eh (1729)	Sadozai Sultanate of Herat	Safavid Empire	Defeat
Herat Campaign of 1731 (1731-1732)	Sadozai Sultanate of Herat Hotaki Dynasty	Safavid Empire	Defeat	End of the Sadozai Sultanate of Herat
Durrani Empire (1747–1823)
Battle of Lahore (1748) (1748)	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Victory
Battle of Manupur (1748)	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Defeat
Battle of Lahore (1752)	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Victory
Durrani occupation of Delhi (1757) (1757)	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Victory
Battle of Bharatpur (1757)	Durrani Empire	Kingdom of Bharatpur	Defeat
Battle of Narela (1757)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire	Defeat
Battle of Attock (1758)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire Ahluwalia (misl)	Defeat
Capture of Peshawar (1758) (1758)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire Ahluwalia (misl)	Defeat
Battle of Lahore (1759)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire Sukerchakia Misl Ahluwalia (misl)	Defeat
Battle of Taraori (1759) (1759)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire Mughal Empire	Victory
Battle of Barari Ghat (1760)	Durrani Empire Rohilla Afghans	Maratha Empire	Victory
Battle of Sikandarabad (1760)	Durrani Empire Rohilla Afghans	Maratha Empire	Victory
Samalkha (1760) (1760)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire	Victory
Meerut (1760) (1760)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire	Victory
Third Battle of Panipat (1761)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire	Victory
Battle of Nimla (1809) (1809)	Durrani Empire	Coalition of Shah Mahmud	Coalition victory	Mahmud Shah Durrani ascends the throne again in his second reign until his eventual deposition in 1818.
Battle of Kafir Qala (1818)	Durrani Empire	Qajar dynasty	Inconclusive
Afghan-Sikh Wars (1748-1819)	Durrani Empire	Sikh Empire	Rise and fall of the Afghans, rise of the Sikhs.
Emirate of Herat (1793–1863)
Siege of Herat (1837–1838)	Emirate of Herat	Qajar dynasty	Victory
Herat campaign (1862-1863) (1862–1863)	Emirate of Herat	Emirate of Afghanistan	Defeat	Afghanistan annexes the Emirate of Herat.
Emirate of Kabul (1823-1855) Emirate of Afghanistan (1855-1926)
Afghan–Sikh Wars (1819-1837)	Emirate of Kabul	Sikh Empire	Inconclusive
Dost Mohammad's Campaign to Jalalabad (1834) (1834)	Emirate of Kabul	Amirs of Jalalabad Kunar Mohmand tribe	Victory
Expedition of Shuja ul-Mulk (1834)	Principality of Qandahar Emirate of Kabul	Shah Shuja's forces British Empire East India Company Sikh Empire	Victory
First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)	Emirate of Kabul	British Empire British East India Company	Victory	British withdrawal Dost Mohammad Khan reinstalled to the throne of Kabul Destruction of Sadozai power in Afghanistan
Khost rebellion (1856–1857) (1856–1857)	Afghanistan	Rebel tribes Khostwal Waziri	Government victory	Rebellion suppressed
Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880)	Afghanistan	British Empire British India	Defeat	Treaty of Gandamak British Strategic Victory, after achieving most desired goals (controlling Afghanistan’s foreign policy on the condition of subsidies paid to the Afghans, North-West Frontier province annexed to British India). Afghan Tactical Victory, after achieving the prevention of a British residence in Kabul and British military withdrawal.
Panjdeh incident (1885)	Afghanistan	Russian Empire	Defeat	Russians defeated an outnumbered Afghan detachment on the border; Afghanistan are handing over a small territory on the border where the Russians are building the fortress "Kushka"
1888–1893 Hazara uprisings (1888–1893)	Emirate of Afghanistan	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^[1]
Khost rebellion (1912) (1912)	Emirate of Afghanistan	Rebel tribes Mangal Jadran	Government victory	Rebellion suppressed
Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)	Afghanistan	British Empire British India	Inconclusive	Treaty of Rawalpindi Afghan diplomatic victory British tactical victory British strategic victory with the reaffirmation of the Durand Line as a border Afghan independence with full sovereignty in foreign affairs
Alizai rebellion of 1923 (1923)	Afghanistan	Rebel tribes Alizai	Government victory	Rebellion suppressed
Khost rebellion (1924–1925)	Afghanistan	Mangal, Sulaiman Khel and Ali Khel tribesmen	Government victory	Rebellion suppressed
Saqqawist low-level insurgency (1924–1928)	Afghanistan	Saqqawists	Escalated into civil war
Urtatagai conflict (1925–1926)	Afghanistan	Soviet Union	Peace treaty	Afghanistan is obligated to restrain Basmachi border raids Soviet Union captures, then cedes back Urtatagai
Kingdom of Afghanistan (1926–1973)
First Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)	Amānullāh Khān (Until 14 January 1929) Inayatullah Khan (14-17 January 1929) Ali Ahmad Khan (17 January – 9 February 1929) Various anti-Saqqawist tribes Wardak Maydan Jalriz Sanglakh Mohammed Nādir Khān (March–October 1929) Intervening against Basmachi: Soviet Union^[2]	Shinwari tribesmen (14 November–December 1928) Saqqawists (late November 1928 onwards) In cooperation with: Basmachi (1929)	Anti-Saqqawist victory, Double regime change	Overthrow of Amanullah Khan by Habibullāh Kalakāni, followed by the overthrow of Habibullāh Kalakāni by Mohammed Nadir Shah.
Shinwari rebellion (1930)	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Shinwari tribesmen	Government victory	Rebellion suppressed
Kuhistan rebellion (1930)	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Saqqawists	Government victory	Rebellion suppressed
Battle of Herat^[3] (1931)	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Saqqawists	Government victory	Saqqawists wiped out
Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947 (1944–1947)	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Rebel tribes: Zadran Mangal Safi	Government victory	Rebellions suppressed
1945 Hazara Rebellion (1945–1946)	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Hazara rebels under Ebrāhim Beg	Government victory	Rebellion suppressed
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978–1987)
Saur Revolution (1978)	Republic of Afghanistan	People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan	Defeat	PDPA victory
Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)	Soviet Union Democratic Republic of Afghanistan	Mujahideen	Defeat	Geneva Accords Withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan Afghan Civil War continues
Republic of Afghanistan (1987–1992)
Second Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) (1989–1992)	Republic of Afghanistan'	Mujahideen	Mujahideen victory	Regime change Establishment of the Islamic State of Afghanistan led by Burhanuddin Rabbani
Islamic State of Afghanistan (1992–2001)
Third Afghan Civil War (1992–1996) (1992–1996)	Islamic State of Afghanistan	Taliban Al-Qaeda	Regime change	Taliban enter Kabul, and establish the largely unrecognized Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)
Fourth Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) (1996–2001)	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban Al-Qaeda	Islamic State of Afghanistan United Front	Stalemate	Stalemate with varying fronts between the Taliban and Massoud's forces (United Front)
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001–2021)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (2001–2021)	Afghanistan Al-Qaeda 055 Brigade Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan East Turkistan Islamic Party Tanzeem-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi	United States United Kingdom Canada Australia Northern Alliance	Defeat (Phase 1)	Fall of the Taliban-governed Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Formation of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (2001–2021)	Afghanistan ISAF United States United Kingdom Canada Australia Germany Italy Georgia Poland Romania Turkey	Taliban Islamic Jihad Union Haqqani network Al-Qaeda Fidai Mahaz Mullah Dadullah Front	Taliban victory (Phase 2)	Destruction of al-Qaeda militant training camps Death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan Coalition failure to quell Taliban insurgency since 2006 Doha Agreement (2020) Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021) 2021 Taliban offensive culminating in Fall of Kabul Overthrow of coalition-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on 15 August 2021
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (2021–present)
Islamic State–Taliban conflict (2014–present)	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban Al-Qaeda (denied) United States (limited) Iran (allegedly) Pakistan (allegedly) Russia (allegedly) Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (allegedly)	Islamic State Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (allegedly)	Ongoing
Republican insurgency in Afghanistan (2021–present)	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan National Resistance Front	Ongoing

References

^ دلجو, عباس (2014). تاریخ باستانی هزاره ها. کابل: انتشارات امیری. ISBN 9936801504.
^ Ritter, William S. (1990). "Revolt in the Mountains: Fuzail Maksum and the Occupation of Garm, Spring 1929". Journal of Contemporary History. 25 (4): 547–580. doi:10.1177/002200949002500408. ISSN 0022-0094. JSTOR 260761.
^ "MOḤAMMAD NĀDER SHAH – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-04-23.

[:0-1] دلجو, عباس (2014). تاریخ باستانی هزاره ها. کابل: انتشارات امیری. ISBN 9936801504.

[2] Ritter, William S. (1990). "Revolt in the Mountains: Fuzail Maksum and the Occupation of Garm, Spring 1929". Journal of Contemporary History. 25 (4): 547–580. doi:10.1177/002200949002500408. ISSN 0022-0094. JSTOR 260761.

[3] "MOḤAMMAD NĀDER SHAH – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-04-23.

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