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North-West Frontier Theatre of WWI
	Part of World War I
	; A Mashud Village Burning following the operation
Date	November 1914–July 1917
Location	North-West Frontier Province
Result	Anglo–Indian victory
Belligerents
British Empire British India;	Khost tribesmen; Bunerwals tribes; Swatis tribes; Mohmand Tribe; Mahsud tribesmen; Supported by: Germany; Ottoman Empire; Provisional Government of India;
Commanders and leaders
Major-General Sir Vere Bonamy Fane; Major-General Frederick Campbell; Major-General William Benyon;	Tribesmen leaders
Units involved
Bannu Brigade; Local militia;	Khost tribesmen; Bunerwals tribes; Swatis tribes; Mohmand Tribe; Mahsud tribesmen;
Strength
Few thousand soldiers	7,000 tribesmen

Background

In support of the British war effort, the Indian Army deployed expeditionary forces to the Western Front, East Africa, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Sinai and Palestine. India was thus vulnerable to hostile attention from Afghanistan. A Turco-German mission arrived in Kabul in October 1915 with obvious strategic purpose. However, Amir Habibulla abided by his treaty obligations and maintained Afghanistan's neutrality, in the face of internal opposition from factions keen to side with the Ottoman Sultan. Hostilities on the frontier remained local.

Many operations occurred in the North-West Frontier Province through the late 1800s and all the way up to Indian Independence in 1947.^[1] Some of these occurred during WWI being carried out by tribes loyal to the Ottomans.^[2] These forces fought on and off from the time of the Ottoman entry into the war all the way until the summer of 1917.