Battle of Kafir Qala

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Battle of Kafir Qala
Date June 1818 Location Kafir Qala, Afghanistan Result Inconclusive[1]
Belligerents
Durrani Empire	Qajar Iran
Commanders and leaders
Fateh Khan Barakzai  (WIA) Sher dil Khan Barakzai Kohandil Khan Barakzai Sher Mohammad Hazara Mohammad Khan Qaraei-Torbati	Hasan Ali Mirza Mirza Abdul Wahhab Khan Faiz Ali Khan

The Battle of Kafir Qala (Persian: نبرد کافر قلعه, romanized: Nabard-e Kāfir Qal'ah) was fought in June 1818 between Iran and the Durrani Empire.

The Iranians had captured Herat in 1816 but were forced to abandon it when the Afghans resisted the occupation of the city with an intense guerrilla war on the countryside. In 1818 the Iranian Shah, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, sent his son Hasan Ali Mirza, with a huge Iranian army to recapture Herat. The Iranians marched from Khorasan and met the Afghan army shortly after crossing the border in the town of Kafir Qala.