List of wars involving Afghanistan

This is a list of wars involving Afghanistan.

Conflict	Afghanistan and allies	Opponents	Results	Details
Lodi dynasty (1451–1526)
First Battle of Panipat (1526)	Lodi dynasty	Mughal Empire Afghan Mughal Loyalists	Defeat	Victory for Afghan Mughal Loyalists
Sur Empire (1540–1556)
Battle of Chausa (1539)	Sur Empire	Mughal Empire Afghan Mughal Loyalists	Victory	Defeat for Afghan Mughal Loyalists
(1540)	Sur Empire	Mughal Empire Afghan Mughal Loyalists	Victory	Defeat for Afghan Mughal Loyalists
Battle of Sammel (1544)	Sur Empire	Kingdom of Marwar	Victory
Battle of Sirhind (1555)	Sur Empire	Mughal Empire Afghan Mughal Loyalists	Defeat	Victory for Afghan Mughal Loyalists
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	Military victory	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 Manupur (1748)	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Defeat
Afghan-Sikh Wars (First Phase) (1751-1772)	Durrani Empire	Sikh Misls	Defeat
Battle of Lahore (1752)	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Victory
(1757)	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Victory
(1757)	Durrani Empire	Kingdom of Bharatpur	Defeat
Battle of Amritsar (1757)	Durrani Empire	Shaheedan Misl	Defeat
Battle of Narela (1757)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire	Defeat
(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
Third Battle of Panipat (1761)	Durrani Empire	Maratha Empire	Victory
Afghan-Sikh Wars (Second Phase) (1779-1793)	Durrani Empire	Bhangi Misl	Victory	Sikhs defeated at Battle of Rohtas, Multan is also recaptured.
Afghan-Sikh Wars (Third Phase) (1793-1800)	Durrani Empire	Sikh Misls	Inconclusive
Afghan-Sikh Wars (Fourth Phase) (1807-1819)	Durrani Empire	Sikh Empire	Defeat	Sikhs capture Multan and seize Kashmir
Emirate of Afghanistan (1823–1926)
Afghan-Sikh Wars (Fifth Phase) (1819-1837)	Afghanistan	Sikh Empire	Inconclusive
Siege of Herat (1837–1838)	Afghanistan	Qajar dynasty	Victory
First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)	Afghanistan	British Empire British East India Company	Victory	British Indian withdrawal after abandoning its war objective Dost Mohammad Khan retains the Afghan throne
Khost rebellion (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.
Uprisings of Hazaras (1888–1893)	Afghan forces loyal to Abdur Rahman Khan	Afghan forces loyal to Sher Ali Khan including the Hazara people	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)	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 (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
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
Afghan tribal revolts (1944–1947)	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Rebel tribes: Zadran Mangal Safi	Government victory	Rebellions suppressed
Ebrāhim Beg's revolt (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)	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)	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)	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)	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)	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)
Panjshir Conflict (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.

[: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.

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