Sources: BBC
A report to the UN Security Council finds that the Islamic State still commands between 5,000 and 7,000 members across Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, posing a serious threat to the region despite the imposition of economic sanctions. 2023-08-14
Three members of the United States Armed Forces are killed in a bombing in eastern Afghanistan. 2012-04-26
Six British Army soldiers are missing presumed killed in Afghanistan. 2012-03-7
A NATO helicopter based in Afghanistan intrudes into North Waziristan in Pakistan and fires at a Pakistan Army checkpoint, wounding two soldiers. 2011-05-17
Two British soldiers from the 1st Battalion Irish Guards are killed fighting in Afghanistan's Helmand province. 2011-03-24
Sapper Jamie Larkham of the 1st Combat Engineer Regiment (Australia) and an Afghan interpreter die in overnight fighting. 2011-02-20
A British Army soldier from 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment is killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. 2011-02-14
US diplomat Richard Holbrooke says the US has a transition plan for Afghanistan, not an exit strategy, and that there will be some drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan next year but the U.S. combat mission will not end there until 2014. 2010-11-15
President Hamid Karzai acknowledges that his office has regularly received cash from Iran and the United States but claims that the process was transparent. 2010-10-25
William Hague, the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary, says that British soldiers should be out of Afghanistan by 2014. 2010-07-20