Badakhshan Province is one of the 34 areas of Afghanistan, situated in the farthest northeastern piece of the country among Tajikistan and Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan locale. It shares a 91-kilometer (57-mile) line with China. The region contains 22 to 28 locales, more than 1,200 towns, and roughly 1,054,087 individuals. Fayzabad fills in as the commonplace capital.

The Achaemenid Empire vanquished the region in the first thousand years BC. Badakhshan etymologically gets from the Middle Persian word badaxš, an authority title. The addition of the name, - ān, implies the locale had a place with somebody with the title badaxš.

The domain was controlled by the Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century. It was given to Ahmad Shah Durrani by Murad Beg of Bukhara after a ceasefire was reached in or around 1750 and turned out to be important for the Durrani Empire. It was administered by the Durranis followed by the Barakzai tradition and was immaculate by the British during the three Anglo-Afghan conflicts that were battled in the nineteenth and twentieth hundreds of years. It stayed quiet for around 100 years until the 1980s Soviet-Afghan War so, all in all, the Mujahideen started disobedience to the focal Afghan government.

During the 1990s, a large part of the space was constrained by powers faithful to Burhanuddin Rabbani and Ahmad Shah Massoud, who were true the public government until 1996. Badakhshan was the solitary territory that the Taliban didn't vanquish during their standard from 1996 to 2001. Notwithstanding, throughout the conflicts, a non-Taliban Islamic emirate was set up in Badakhshan by Mawlawi Shariqi, resembling the Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan in adjoining Nuristan. Rabbani, a Badakhshan local, and Massoud were the last remainders of the counter Taliban Northern Alliance during the pinnacle of Taliban control in 2001.

Badakhshan was accordingly one of only a handful few regions of the country that saw little rebellion in the Afghan conflicts – in any case, during the 2010s Taliban agitators figured out how to assault and assume responsibility for a few locales in the region.