__NOTOC__ The following lists events that happened during

1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...

in Afghanistan.

Incumbents

* Monarch – Habibullah Khan

May 1917

It is reported that Turco-German agents are fomenting unrest in Afghanistan and are instigating the chiefs to make incursions into Russian Turkestan. These intrigues appear to have no success, however, and there are no indications that the loyalty of the ''emir'' to the Indian government has been in the least shaken. {{Year in Asia, 1917 Afghanistan Years of the 20th century in Afghanistan Afghanistan 1910s in Afghanistan