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1918 in Afghanistan
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1918
The following events happened during 1918 in Afghanistan or are related to the history of that country that year.
Incumbents
thumb|1918 Afghan postal stampMonarch – Habibullah Khanhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Habibullah-Khan Ḥabībullāh Khan Encyclopædia Britannica 18 December 2025
Events
Early that year, starvation is reported near Herat due to excessive food exportation to Russian Turkistan.Afghanistan / 1.0 / handbook https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/afghanistan/ 2026-01-26 1914-1918-Online (WW1) Encyclopedia en-US
At the end of the war, Afghanistan is hit by the influenza epidemic.
International relations
The Amir continues to maintain his neutrality in the war.Afghanistan / 1.0 / handbook https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/afghanistan/ 2026-01-26 1914-1918-Online (WW1) Encyclopedia en-USRuttig Thomas 2014-07-27 Afghanistan in World War I (1): Afghans in the Kaiser’s jihad https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/afghanistan-in-world-war-i-1-afghans-in-the-kaisers-jihad/ 2026-01-26 Afghanistan Analysts Network - English ps-GB
January: In the British Parliament, Viscount Bryce has the following question to Lord Islington, Parliamentary under-secretary of state for India: ”whether the Russian Government raised (...) the question of solving certain problems in the districts of Northern Afghanistan adjoining Russian territory”, to which the latter’s answer is the following: ”a Memorandum addressed to His Majesty's Government by the Russian Ambassador on March 22, 1915, in connection with the ultimate terms of peace, suggested among other matters that the 411 Russian zone in Persia—...—should be slightly readjusted so as to transfer from the neutral to the Russian zone a small area in the neighbourhood of the Russian and Afghan frontiers. This proposal, had it been carried out, would not have affected Afghan territorial interests. (...) These proposals never came to a head and could not have been carried into effect without the Ameer's consent. No proposal affecting the territorial integrity of Afghanistan has been made either in the Memorandum or elsewhere.”RUSSIA AND AFGHANISTAN. (Hansard, 9 January 1918) https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1918/jan/09/russia-and-afghanistan 2026-01-26 api.parliament.uk
Publications
April: E. M. Wherry, ”The First American Mission in Afghanistan”, in The Muslim WorldWherry E. M. 1918 The First American Mission to Afghanistan https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1478-1913.1918.tb01630.x The Muslim World en 8 2 131–136 10.1111/j.1478-1913.1918.tb01630.x 1478-1913
References
Links
Afghanistan in 1918 at Ethnia.org
View of Kabul in 1918 at Getty Images
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