// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was the War in Afghanistan a bad date? It had a lot of baggage.

War in Afghanistan, Afghan war, or Afghan civil war may refer to:

• Wars of Alexander the Great#Bactria (330 BC–327 BC), the conquest of Afghanistan by the Macedonian Empire
• Muslim conquests of Afghanistan, a series of campaigns in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries
• Mongol campaigns in Central Asia (1216–1222), the conquest of Afghanistan by the Mongol Empire
• Mughal conquests in Afghanistan (1526), the conquest by the Mughal Empire
• Afghan-Sikh Wars (1748–1837), intermittent wars between the Afghans and Sikhs
• Afghan Civil War (1793–1823), war of succession in the Durrani Empire
• Afghan Civil War (1863–1869), a civil war between Sher Ali Khan and Mohammad Afzal Khan's faction after the death of Dost Mohammad Khan
• Panjdeh incident (1885), an incursion into Afghanistan by the Russian Empire during the era of the "Great Game"
• Anglo−Afghan Wars, wars conducted by British India in Afghanistan 1839–1919)
  • First Anglo−Afghan War (1839–1842)
  • Second Anglo−Afghan War (1878–1880)
  • Third Anglo−Afghan War (1919)
• Afghan Civil War (1928–1929), revolts by the Shinwari and the Saqqawists; the Saqqawists take over Kabul for a 9-month period
• Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929), an invasion by the Soviet Union against the Saqqawists in support of the royalists
• 1973 Afghan coup d'état
• 1975 Panjshir Valley uprising
• Afghan coup d'état (1976)
• Saur Revolution (1978)
• Afghan conflict (1978–present)
  • Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)
  • Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
  • Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
  • Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
  • War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
    • Taliban insurgency
  • Islamic State–Taliban conflict (2015–present)
  • Republican insurgency in Afghanistan (2021–present)
• Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes (1947–present)
  • 2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict
  • 2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war