The following lists events that happened during 1985 in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is locked in military stalemate throughout the year, with neither the...

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The...

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred...

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), renamed the Republic of Afghanistan in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's...

Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War. The term mujāhidīn (Arabic: مجاهدين) is used in a religious context by Muslims...

سادات سمیع الله; born 17 March 1985) is a Pashtun General/Commander of the Afghan Armed Forces, who had joined the Afghan Armed Forces since 2007 and was...

1985 Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 shootdown was on 4 September 1985 when a Bakhtar Afghan Airlines Antonov An-26 (registered in Afghanistan as...

Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American...

Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun...

Mujahideen inside Afghanistan from across the border. During this year, the country and the USSR made a trade agreement for 1981 to 1985. Afghanistan shall provide...