List of sieges of Kabul

The following is a list of sieges of Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan.

Sieges
Date Attackers Defenders Forces used Result[A] Ref.
1879 British Empire Emirate of Afghanistan Naval and land Unsuccessful [1][2][3]
1979 Soviet Union Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Naval and land Unsuccessful [4][5][6]
1992–1996 Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (1992-1994),
Hezb-i Wahdat (1992-1995)
Junbish-i Milli (1994),
Taliban (1994-1996)		 Islamic State of Afghanistan Naval and land Successful [7][8]
2001 Northern Alliance Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Naval and land Successful [9][10]
2021 Taliban Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Air and land Successful [11][12]

References
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  2. "No. 25008". The London Gazette. 26 August 1881. p. 4393.
  3. A Short History of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers 1715–1949
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  5. Peter Tomsen (9 June 2011). Wars of Afghanistan (1st ed.). PublicAffairs. p. 174. ISBN 978-1586487638.
  6. Dmitri Volin (25 December 2019) Участник штурма дворца Амина: мы шли под прямой автоматный огонь. tass.ru.
  7. U.S. Department of State (March 1996). "Afghanistan Human Rights Practices, 1995". Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Ghufran, Nasreen. "THE TALIBAN AND THE CIVIL WAR ENTANGLEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN" (PDF).
  9. Neville, Leigh, Special Forces in the War on Terror (General Military), Osprey Publishing, 2015 ISBN 978-1472807908, p.43
  10. The United States Army in Afghanistan – Operation ENDURING FREEDOM – October 2001 – March 2003 Archived February 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  11. AP (2021-08-16). "In pictures: The fall of Kabul". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  12. TurseAugust 15, 2021, Nick TurseNick; P.m, 5:24. "The Fall of Kabul". The Intercept. Retrieved 2021-08-17.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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