# 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 |
| Sack 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 | Victory |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 (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 |
| Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978) |||||
| Panjshir Valley uprising (1975) | Republic of Afghanistan | Jamiat-e-Islami | Victory | Uprising 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 | |
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