The flag of Afghanistan.

 The countrywide flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان بیرغ; Dari, extensively utilized because the flag of the Taliban, includes a white subject with a black Shahada. It turned into followed on 15 August 2021 with the victory of the Taliban inside the 2001–2021 conflict. Since the Anglo-Afghan War of 1919, additionally referred to as the War of Independence, Afghanistan has used about 19 country wide flags, extra than every other united states in this period. The countrywide flag had black, crimson and inexperienced colorings maximum of the time all through the duration.

The tricolor flag of the internationally-identified Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which remains in use internationally and via resistance movements in opposition to the Taliban inner Afghanistan, has vertical black, purple and inexperienced stripes. It has the country wide brand in white on the center. The logo, that is surrounded via sheaves of wheat, includes a Shahada; a Takbir; rays of sun; a mosque with a mihrab, minbar and Afghan flags; the 12 months 1298 (١۲۹٨) in the Solar Hijri calendar (i.E. A comparable flag with 3 vertical stripes of the identical colours, which had an emblem surrounded via sheaves of wheat, changed into first flown with the aid of King Amanullah Khan in July 1928. During the Afghan Independence Day rallies in Jalalabad and other towns on 18 and 19 August 2021, the Taliban killed 3 people and injured over a dozen others for getting rid of Taliban flags and showing the tricolor Afghan flags. On eleven September 2021, 4 days after reports of defeat of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF) in Panjshir, the Taliban hoisted their flag on the presidential palace in Kabul to commemorate the 20 th anniversary of the 11th of September terrorist attacks in opposition to the USA. The Taliban has issued a decree requiring using the Islamic Emirate's flag in all legit settings.