Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Jihar Afghanistan ta zamani ta fara ne da daular Hotak da Durrani a karni na 18. A ƙarshen karni na 19, Afghanistan ta zama jihar buffer a cikin "Babban Wasan" tsakanin Indiya ta Biritaniya da Daular Rasha. Bayan Yaƙin Anglo-Afghanistan na Uku a cikin 1919, ƙasar ta sami 'yanci daga mamayar ƙasashen waje, daga ƙarshe ta zama Masarautar Afghanistan a watan Yunin 1926 a ƙarƙashin Sarki Amanullah. Wannan masarautar ta kasance kusan shekaru hamsin, har sai da aka hambarar da Sarki Zahir kuma aka kafa jamhuriya a watan Yulin 1973. A shekara ta 1978, bayan juyin mulki na biyu
, Afghanistan ta zama jihar gurguzu, ta haifar da Yakin Soviet-Afghan a cikin 1980s a kan 'yan tawayen mujahideen. A shekara ta 1996 mafi yawan Afghanistan ta kama ta kungiyar masu tsattsauran ra'ayin Islama, Taliban, wanda ya yi mulkin mafi yawan kasar a matsayin mulkin kama karya na fiye da shekaru biyar. An cire Taliban daga mulki bayan mamayewar Amurka a 2001 amma har yanzu suna iko da wani bangare na kasar. Yaƙin shekaru ashirin tsakanin gwamnati da Taliban ya kai kololuwa tare da harin Taliban na 2021 da kuma faɗuwar Kabul wanda ya haifar da dawo da Taliban zuwa mulki.