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Pakistan closes all border crossings with Afghanistan until further notice in response to the attacks.
2024-02-7

Three suicide bombers attack a Shiite mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 47 people and injuring 70 others. The explosions occur at the main door and inside the mosque. Taliban authorities later arrived and secured the mosque. Taliban interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosti says that authorities are currently collecting evidence in order to determine responsibility for the bombing.
2021-10-15

Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen blames former president Ashraf Ghani for the "chaos" in Kabul. Shaheen says that Ghani must return the money that he allegedly stole and says that it was not necessary for Ghani to leave the country as the Taliban "just wanted a peaceful transfer of power".
2021-08-29

At least six civilians are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. A provincial government spokesman blames the Taliban though no group claimed responsibility.
2020-07-11

An Azerbaijani cargo airplane crashes during landing in southern Afghanistan, killing seven out of its nine crew members.
2016-05-19

The chief of Afghanistan's intelligence service, Asadullah Khalid, is injured in an assassination attempt in the country's capital, Kabul.
2012-12-6

NATO-backed Afghan security forces end a 12-hour siege carried out by Taliban insurgents on the Spozhmai Hotel outside Kabul, killing all five insurgents.
2012-06-22

Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Sar-e-Pul Province.
2012-06-11

Seven civilians, including children, are killed by two separate roadside mines in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni Province; an 8-year-old girl was killed when militants gave her a remote-controlled explosive in a bag and told her to give it to police officers in Oruzgan Province.
2011-06-27

Attacks by Taliban militants, including rocket firing, have wounded 16 people, including children, in Kunduz province in Afghanistan on election day. Nine civilians sustained injuries in Taliban-linked activities in east Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.
2010-09-18