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Year
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Afghanistan and Allies
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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
|
|
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
|