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List of wars involving Afghanistan
This is a list of wars involving Afghanistan.
Conflict | Afghanistan and allies |
Opponents | Results | Details |
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Lodi dynasty (1451–1526) | ||||
First Battle of Panipat (1526) |
Lodi dynasty | Mughal Empire
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Defeat | Victory for Afghan Mughal Loyalists |
Sur Empire (1540–1556) | ||||
Battle of Chausa (1539) |
Sur Empire | Mughal Empire
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Victory | Defeat for Afghan Mughal Loyalists |
(1540) |
Sur Empire | Mughal Empire
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Victory | Defeat for Afghan Mughal Loyalists |
Battle of Sammel (1544) |
Sur Empire | Kingdom of Marwar | Victory | |
Battle of Sirhind (1555) |
Sur Empire | Mughal Empire
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Defeat | Victory for Afghan Mughal Loyalists |
Hotaki dynasty (1709–1738) | ||||
Battle of Gulnabad (1722) |
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Victory | |
Siege of Isfahan (1722) |
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Victory | Abdication of Sultan Husayn, Mahmud Hotak declared Shah of Iran |
Ottoman–Hotaki War (1726–1727) |
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Military victory | Treaty of Hamedan |
Battle of Damghan (1729) |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Khwar Pass (1729) |
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Defeat | Failure of attempted Ambush on Safavid forces |
Battle of Murche-Khort (1729) |
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Defeat | Safavid liberation of Isfahan |
Battle of Zarghan (1730) |
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Defeat | Afghans Expulsed from Persia |
Herat Campaign of 1731 (1731-1732) |
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Defeat | End of the Sadozai Sultanate of Herat |
Siege of Kandahar (1737-1738) |
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Defeat | End of the Hotak Dynasty |
Sadozai Sultanate of Herat (1716–1732) | ||||
Battle of Sangan (1727) |
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Defeat | |
Herat Campaign of 1729 (1729) |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Kafer Qal'eh (1729) |
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Defeat | |
Herat Campaign of 1731 (1731-1732) |
Sadozai Sultanate of Herat
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Defeat | End of the Sadozai Sultanate of Herat |
Durrani Empire (1747–1823) | ||||
Battle of Manupur |
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Defeat | ||
Afghan-Sikh Wars (First Phase) (1751-1772) |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Lahore |
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Victory | ||
(1757) |
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Victory | |
(1757) |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Amritsar (1757) |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Narela |
Defeat | |||
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Defeat | |
Defeat | ||||
Battle of Lahore (1759) |
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Defeat | |
Third Battle of Panipat (1761) |
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Victory | |
Afghan-Sikh Wars (Second Phase) (1779-1793) |
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Victory | Sikhs defeated at Battle of Rohtas, Multan is also recaptured. |
Afghan-Sikh Wars (Third Phase) (1793-1800) |
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Inconclusive | |
Afghan-Sikh Wars (Fourth Phase) (1807-1819) |
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Defeat | Sikhs capture Multan and seize Kashmir |
Emirate of Afghanistan (1823–1926) | ||||
Afghan-Sikh Wars (Fifth Phase) (1819-1837) |
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Inconclusive | |
Siege of Herat (1837–1838) |
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Victory | |
First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) |
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Victory |
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Khost rebellion (1856–1857) |
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Rebel tribes
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Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–1880) |
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Defeat |
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Uprisings of Hazaras (1888–1893) |
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Victory of Abdur Rahman Khan | 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) |
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Rebel tribes | Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) |
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Inconclusive |
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Alizai rebellion (1923) |
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Rebel tribes | Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
Khost rebellion (1924–1925) |
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Mangal, Sulaiman Khel and Ali Khel tribesmen | Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
Urtatagai conflict (1925–1926) |
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Peace treaty |
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Kingdom of Afghanistan (1926–1973) | ||||
First Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) |
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Shinwari tribesmen (14 November–December 1928)
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Anti-Saqqawist victory, Double regime change |
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Shinwari rebellion (1930) |
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Shinwari tribesmen | Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
Kuhistan rebellion (1930) |
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Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
Afghan tribal revolts (1944–1947) |
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Rebel tribes: | Government victory | Rebellions suppressed |
Ebrāhim Beg's revolt (1945–1946) |
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Hazara rebels under Ebrāhim Beg | Government victory | Rebellion suppressed |
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978–1987) | ||||
Saur Revolution (1978) |
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Defeat | PDPA victory |
Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) |
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Defeat |
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Republic of Afghanistan (1987–1992) | ||||
Second Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) |
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Mujahideen victory |
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Islamic State of Afghanistan (1992–2001) | ||||
Third Afghan Civil War (1992–1996) |
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Regime change |
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001) | ||||
Fourth Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) |
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Stalemate |
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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001–2021) | ||||
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) |
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Defeat (Phase 1) |
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Taliban victory (Phase 2) |
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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (2021–present) | ||||
Panjshir Conflict (2021–present) |
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Ongoing |
History of Afghanistan |
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Timeline |
Related historical names of the region |
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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.
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