Wars involving Afghanistan

Name every war Afghanistan has taken part in.

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Year	Afghanistan and Allies	Opponents	Result	War
1720s-1747	Hotak Dynasty Ottoman Empire Safavid Empire Crimean Khanate Gazikumukh Khanate Mughal Empire Khanate of Bukhara Khanate of Khiva Khanate of Kokand Lezgins Akusha-Dargo Union Avar Khanate Omani Empire Imamate of Oman Hyderabad State Oudh State Sind State Banu Ka'b Sheikhdom Al Qawasim Sheikhdom Emirate of Al Humaid Emirate of Muhammara Principality of Ardalan Sultanate of Herat Shaki Khanate Elisu Sultanate Kingdom of Kartli Kingdom of Kakheti	Safavid Empire Afsharid Empire	Defeat	Campaigns of Nader Shah
1726-1727	Hotak Dynasty	Ottoman Empire	Treaty	Ottoman-Hotaki War
1727	Abdali Afghans Sangani Rebels	Safavid loyalists	Defeat	Battle of Sangan
1729	Hotak Dynasty	Safavid Empire	Defeat	Battle of Damghan
1729	Hotak Dynasty	Safavid Empire	Defeat	Battle of Khwar Pass
1729	Hotak Dynasty Ottoman Empire	Safavid Empire	Defeat	Battle of Murche-Khort
1729	Abdali Pashtuns	Safavid loyalists	Defeat	Herat campaign of 1729
1729	Abdali Afghans	Safavid loyalists	Defeat	Battle of Kafer Qal'eh
1730	Hotak Dynasty Local Arab tribes	Safavid Empire	Defeat	Battle of Zarghan
1730-1732	Sadozai Sultanate of Herat Hotak Dynasty	Safavid Empire Afghan loyalists	Defeat	Herat campaign of 1730-1732
1737-1738	Hotak Dynasty	Afsharid Empire	Defeat	Siege of Kandahar
1748-1769	Durrani Empire Kingdom of Rohilkhand Amb Sind State Khanate of Kalat Oudh State Bahawalpur Malerkotla State Las Bela Kharan Potholar Dera Ghazi Khan Makran Dogra Dynasty Farrukhabad Chitral Dir Bhimber State Kangra State Kahlur Chamba State Kingdom of Kumaon Nawabs of Mankera Durrani Yusufzai Marwat Bangash Qizilbash Afridi Khattak Gandapur Kakar Jadoon	Mughal Empire Maratha Empire Sikh Confederacy Bharatpur State Kingdom of Jaipur Bhopal State Udaipur Garhwal Kingdom Kingdom of Kashmir Sodhas of Amarkot Junagadh State Kurwai State Kutch State Sial Dynasty	Victory	Indian campaign of Ahmad Shah Durrani
1748	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Victory	First Battle of Lahore
1748	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire Kingdom of Jaipur Malerkotla State	Defeat	Battle of Manupur
1748-1837	Durrani Empire Emirate of Kabul Khanate of Kalat Kingdom of Mankera Principality of Qandahar Peshawar Sardars	Dal Khalsa Sikh Confederacy Sikh Empire	Inconclusive	Afghan-Sikh Wars
1752	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire	Victory	Second Battle of Lahore
1757	Durrani Empire	Mughal Empire Bengal Subah	Victory	Sack of Delhi
1757	Durrani Empire	Maratha Confederacy	Victory	First Battle of Narela
1758-1761	Durrani Empire Kingdom of Rohilkhand	Mughal Empire Maratha Empire Sikh Confederacy	Victory	Second Battle of Narela
1759	Durrani Empire	Maratha Confederacy Mughal Empire	Victory	Battle of Taraori
1760	Durrani Empire Kingdom of Rohilkhand	Maratha Empire	Victory	Battle of Barari Ghat
1760	Durrani Empire Kingdom of Rohilkhand	Malharro Holkar	Victory	Battle of Sikandarabad
1761	Durrani Empire Kingdom of Rohilkhand Khanate of Kalat Kingdom of Awadh Amb State Kingdom of Kumaon Sind State Mughal nobles	Maratha Empire Peshwa Holkar State of Indore Scindia State of Gwalior Gaekwad State of Baroda	Victory	Third Battle of Panipat
1809	Durrani Empire	Coalition of Shah Mahmud	Defeat	Battle of Nimla
1818	Durrani Empire	Qajar Empire	Inconclusive	Battle of Kafir Qala
1833-1834	Barakzai Principality of Kandahar Emirate of Kabul	Durranis British Empire East India Company Sikh Empire	Victory	Expedition of Shuja ul-Mulk
1834	Emirate of Kabul	Amirs of Jalalabad Kunar Mohmand Tribe	Victory	Dost Mohammad's Campaign to Jalalabad
1837-1838	Emirate of Herat East India Company British Empire Afghans Emirate of Bukhara Khanate of Khiva	Qajar Empire Russian Empire Principality of Qandahar	Iranian Withdrawal	First Herat War
1838-1842	Emirate of Kabul Principality of Kandahar Khanate of Kalat Khulm Marri Bugti Afghan Tribes Barakzai loyalists	Durranis British Empire East India Company Durrani Kingdom Maimana Khanate Khulm Sadozai loyalists Sikh Empire	Victory	First Anglo-Afghan War
1856-1857	Emirate of Afghanistan	Rebel tribes	Victory	First Khost Rebellion

Year	Afghanistan and Allies	Opponents	Result	War
1862-1863	Principality of Herat	Emirate of Afghanistan Jamshidi tribe British Empire East India Company	Defeat	Herat campaign
1878-1880	Emirate of Afghanistan	British Empire British Raj Afzalids	Defeat	Second Anglo-Afghan War
1885	Kazakh rebels Turkmen rebels Emirate of Afghanistan British Empire	Russian Empire Allied Turkic rebels	Defeat	Russian conquest of Central Asia
1885	Emirate of Afghanistan British Empire	Russian Empire	Defeat	Panjdeh incident
1888-1893	Emirate of Afghanistan	Hazara people	Victory	Hazara uprisings
1912	Emirate of Afghanistan	Rebel tribes	Victory	Second Khost Rebellion
1916-1930	Russian Republic Russian SFSR Turkestan SSR Kirghiz SSR Khorezm SSR Bukharan SSR Soviet Union Amanullah loyalists Kingdom of Afghanistan	Basmachi movement Khanate of Khiva White Army Alash Autonomy Emirate of Bukhara Emirate of Afghanistan Saqqawists	Victory	Basmachi movement
1919	Emirate of Afghanistan	British Empire British Raj	Inconclusive	Third Anglo-Afghan War
1923	Emirate of Afghanistan	Alizai rebels	Victory	Alizai Rebellion
1924-1925	Emirate of Afghanistan Khogyani Shinwari	Rebel tribes	Victory	Third Khost Rebellion
1924-1928	Emirate of Afghanistan	Saqqawists	Escalation	Saqqawist insurgency
1925-1926	Emirate of Afghanistan Kingdom of Afghanistan	Soviet Union	Victory	Urtatagai conflict
1928-1929	Kingdom of Afghanistan Hazara volunteers Anti-Saqqawist Pashtun tribes Soviet Union	Saqqawists Emirate of Afghanistan Basmachi movement Shinwari tribesmen	Victory	First Afghan Civil War
1929	Soviet Union Kingdom of Afghanistan	Emirate of Afghanistan Basmachi	Inconclusive	Red Army intervention in Afghanistan
1930	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Shinwari tribesmen	Victory	Shinwari Rebellion
1930	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Saqqawist rebels	Victory	Kuhistan Rebellion
1931	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Saqqawists	Victory	Battle of Herat
1944-1947	Kingdom of Afghanistan Nuristani tribesmen Shinwari tribesmen British Empire British Raj	Rebel tribes	Victory	Afghan tribal revolts of 1944-1947
1945-1946	Kingdom of Afghanistan	Hazara rebels	Victory	1945 Hazara Rebellion
1949-present	Afghanistan Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar	Pakistan	Ongoing	Afghanistan-Pakistan border skirmishes
1975	Republic of Afghanistan	Jamiat-e Islami Pakistan Pahlavi Iran	Victory	Panjshir Valley uprising
1978	Republic of Afghanistan	People's Democratic Republic of Afghanistan	Defeat	Saur Revolution
1979-1989	Soviet Union Afghanistan	Afghan mujahideen Pakistan	Defeat	Soviet-Afghan War
1989-1992	Afghanistan Soviet Union India Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Russia	Jamait-e Islami Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin National Islamic Front of Afghanistan Ittehad-e Islami Hezb-i Islami Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami Khalq Junbish-i Milli Al Qaeda Maktab al-Khidamat Pakistan United States Saudi Arabia United Kingdom China Germany Iran	Defeat	Second Afghan Civil War
1992-1996	Islamic State of Afghanistan Northern Alliance Jamiat-e Islami Shura-e Nazar Hezb-e Islami Khalis Ittehad-e Islami Harakat-i-Inqilab Jebh-e Nejat-e Melli Mahaz-e Milli Harakat-i Islami Hezb-i Wahdat Junbish-i Milli Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin Saudi Arabia Uzbekistan Iran	Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin Khalq Pakistan Hezb-i Wahdat Junbish-i Milli Uzbekistan Taliban Khalq Al-Qaeda Pakistan	Stalemate	Third Afghan Civil War
1996-2001	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban Al-Qaeda	Islamic State of Afghanistan United Front	Stalemate	Fourth Afghan Civil War
2001-2021	United States Northern Alliance United Kingdom France Canada Italy Germany Australia New Zealand	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban Haqqani network Al-Qaeda 055 Brigade Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad	Victory	War in Afghanistan
2015-present	Afghanistan Taliban Haqqani network Al-Qaeda Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan Turkistan Islamic Party Pakistani Taliban	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Khorasan Province Mullah Dadullah Front Fidai Mahaz Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan	Ongoing	Islamic State-Taliban conflict
2021-present	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Taliban Al-Qaeda Pakistan	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan National Resistance Front Ahmad Khan Samangani Front Afghanistan Freedom Front Afghanistan Islamic National & Liberation Movement Tajikistan Pakistan	Ongoing	Republican insurgency in Afghanistan