List of wars involving Afghanistan
This is a list of wars involving Afghanistan.
| Conflict | Afghanistan and allies | Opponents | Results | Details |
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| 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 |  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 | Safavid Empire | Defeat | End of the Sadozai Sultanate of Herat |
| Durrani Empire (1747–1823) | ||||
| Battle of Lahore (1748) | Victory | |||
| Battle of Manupur | Defeat | |||
| Battle of Lahore | 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 | Defeat | |||
| Battle of Attock | Durrani Empire |  Maratha Empire
| Defeat | |
| Capture of Peshawar (1758) |
| Defeat | ||
| Battle of Lahore (1759) | Durrani Empire | Maratha Empire
| Defeat | |
| Battle of Taraori (1759) | 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 | Victory |
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| Khost rebellion (1856–1857) (1856–1857) | Afghanistan | Rebel tribes
| Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
| Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) | Afghanistan | British Empire | Defeat |
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| Panjdeh incident (1885) | Afghanistan |  Russian Empire | Defeat |
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| 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
| Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
| Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) |  Afghanistan | British Empire | Inconclusive |
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| Alizai rebellion of 1923 (1923) | Afghanistan | Rebel tribes
| 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 |
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| 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
 Mohammed Nādir Khān (March–October 1929) Intervening against Basmachi: | Shinwari tribesmen (14 November–December 1928) Saqqawists (late November 1928 onwards) In cooperation with:
| Anti-Saqqawist victory, Double regime change |
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| 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:
| 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 |
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| Republic of Afghanistan (1987–1992) | ||||
| Second Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) (1989–1992) |  Republic of Afghanistan' | Mujahideen | Mujahideen victory |
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| Islamic State of Afghanistan (1992–2001) | ||||
| Third Afghan Civil War (1992–1996) (1992–1996) |  Islamic State of Afghanistan |  Taliban Al-Qaeda | Regime change |
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| Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001) | ||||
| Fourth Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) (1996–2001) |  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan | Islamic State of Afghanistan | Stalemate |
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| 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) |
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 Afghanistan ISAF | Taliban | Taliban victory (Phase 2) |
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| Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (2021–present) | ||||
| Islamic State–Taliban conflict (2014–present) | Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
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| Ongoing | |
| Republican insurgency in Afghanistan (2021–present) | Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan | Islamic Republic of Afghanistan | 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.
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