Sources: CNN
At least 68 people are killed by floods in Ghor and Faryab provinces, Afghanistan. 2024-05-18
Net migration to the United Kingdom reaches a record of 504,000 in 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics. The record increase is primarily due to non-EU migration, the resumption of post-pandemic travel, the arrival of Afghan and Ukrainian refugees, and immigration from Hong Kong. 2022-11-24
Lawmakers in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of Parliament, have accused the Ministry of Finance of hiding the names of people accused of embezzling $8 million per day, or $3 billion annually, from customs. The acting minister of finance did not deny the claims but did say that there are reports of corruption involving governors, police commanders, and employees of the Ministry of Finance as well as ordinary citizens. 2021-05-26
Taliban fighters are suspected of being responsible for a bus explosion that kills at least nine people and injures more than twenty others in Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan. 2013-04-8
An Afghan policeman kills four US troops in southern Afghanistan. 2012-09-16
The President of the United States Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron meet at the White House in Washington D.C. to discuss Afghanistan, Syria, the global economy and Iran. 2012-03-14
1,000 students protest at Kabul University as protests continue in Afghanistan over the burning of a Qur'an "found guilty" by pastor Terry Jones' church in the U.S. state of Florida. 2011-04-5
The U.S. military is sending M1 Abrams tanks to Afghanistan for the first time in the nine-year war in Afghanistan. 2010-11-19
The United States opens fire on a bus in Afghanistan, knocking the driver unconscious, killing as many as five civilians, including a woman, and wounding at least 18 other passengers.2010-04-12
An inquest into the deaths of five Afghan asylum seekers opens in Australia. 2010-01-25