Sources: BBC
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid says that the group will not allow any more evacuations of Afghan citizens and that the "main road to the airport is now blocked" and that "people should return to work". Mujahid also said that the United States must stick to its August 31 withdrawal deadline. 2021-08-24
The British government puts 20,000 British Army reservists on standby to help with the coronavirus pandemic. 2020-03-19
Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, sign a power-sharing deal that establishes a unity government with Ghani as President and Abdullah as Chief Executive. 2014-09-21
A series of suicide bombings across Afghanistan kill at least 46 people and injure up to 80 others. 2012-08-14
Six British Army soldiers are missing presumed killed in Afghanistan. 2012-03-7
At least 25 people die in a bus crash in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province. 2011-08-20
Two British soldiers from the 1st Battalion Irish Guards are killed fighting in Afghanistan's Helmand province. 2011-03-24
A British Army soldier from 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment is killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. 2011-02-14
Around 70 insurgents are killed when two NATO helicopters strike inside Pakistan in its northwest Khost tribal area bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan strongly condemned the attack, calling it a violation of its airspace. 2010-09-27
William Hague, the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, says that British soldiers should be out of Afghanistan by 2014. 2010-07-20