Sources: CNN
A Taliban police commander is killed and 11 more people are injured as a bomb targeting the commander's vehicle explode in Shigal District, Afghanistan. 2021-10-14
U.S. president Joe Biden authorizes the deployment of 5,000 American troops to Afghanistan to help evacuate diplomatic staff and personnel. He reaffirms that the United States should end its 20-year presence in the country. 2021-08-14
Afghanistan reports an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on a poultry farm in Herat Province. 2021-02-25
Two U.S. service members are killed and a third is injured during a raid against ISIL militants in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province. 2017-04-27
Russian Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov denies allegations by NATO Commander Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti that Russia was "perhaps" supplying the Taliban. 2017-03-24
In Herat, Afghanistan, two Finnish women working for a foreign aid organization are shot and killed. 2014-07-24
At least 30 people die in southern Afghanistan after a bus crashes into the wreckage of a truck attacked by Taliban insurgents. 2013-04-26
Nine civilians are killed by a bomb explosion on a bus in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan in a suspected Taliban attack. 2011-11-12
The Taliban abandons its opposition to female education in Afghanistan due to a "cultural change". 2011-01-14
Four Italian soldiers die following an attack in the Farah area, Afghanistan. 2010-10-9