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Eight people are injured by a bus bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2022-11-2

A U.S. drone strike in Kabul kills Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's leader since the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. The airstrike is also the first U.S. military action in Afghanistan following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan last year.
2022-08-1

Pakistan International Airlines suspends flights to the Afghan capital Kabul, citing "heavy-handed" interference from the Taliban. It was the only foreign carrier operating regular flights out of Kabul.
2021-10-14

Carrying coffins holding the beheaded bodies of seven ethnic Hazara, thousands of demonstrators from Afghanistan's different ethnic groups - Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara - march on the Presidential Palace in Kabul, urging the government to take action against the rising violence against Afghan civilians. The murders, which the United Nations denounced as a potential war crime, have fueled a growing sense of insecurity since the Taliban briefly seized control of Kunduz in late September.
2015-11-11

A suicide bomber kills 5 in a targeted attack on a British embassy vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2014-11-27

A suicide bomber wearing a military uniform strikes a voter registration office in Kabul, Afghanistan killing 6 police officers.
2014-04-2

At least 600 shops are destroyed as a fire sweeps through a market and money exchange in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2012-12-23

Afghanistan commemorates Ahmad Shah Massoud, assassinated today eleven years ago according to the Afghan calendar, with a ceremony in Kabul on the national holiday of "Haftai Shahid" (Martyr Week). [http:--english.sina.com-world-2012-0908-504552.html (Sina)] [https:--web.archive.org-web-20140729011357-http:--bokhdinews.af-english-internal-7845-Afghans-commemorate-late-resistance-leader-Masoud (Bokhdi)] [http:--www.thefrontierpost.com-news-7916- ("The Frontier Post")]date=April 2020
2012-09-8

Archaeologists in Afghanistan discover the remains of a Buddhist site south of the capital Kabul.
2010-08-17

An international conference on the future of Afghanistan opens in Kabul co-chaired by the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. The conference endorses a goal for Afghan forces to lead security operations across the country by 2014. Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggests raising the size of the Afghan National Army to 170,000 troops and the Afghan National Police to 134,000 officers by 2011.
2010-07-20