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President Ashraf Ghani blames the worsening security situation in Afghanistan on the sudden withdrawal of U.S. troops amid a rapid advance of the Taliban across the country. Ghani warns that the Islamist group has not severed ties with other terrorist groups. The Taliban rejects Ghani's statement.
2021-08-2

Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman and Bahrain confirm their first cases of coronavirus.
2020-02-24

A ship carrying 635 mostly Afghan migrants from the crowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos arrives in the mainland port city of Thessaloniki. A second ship carrying 800 more is expected to arrive tomorrow. They are to be housed in Nea Kavala Καβάλα Κιλκίς, where a camp already houses 1,000 migrants.
2019-09-2

Former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle makes another appearance in court along with his lawyers to set a trial date.
2018-06-15

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) calls for activating the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission – for the first time since its 1991 creation under the Geneva Conventions – to investigate the deadly U.S. bombing of MSF's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. MSF says it does not trust internal military inquiries into the bombing that killed at least 22 people, which it considers a war crime.
2015-10-7

The death toll from recent flooding in northern Afghanistan rises to 123.
2014-04-26

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

A suicide bombing at a funeral in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar kills at least 25 people.
2012-09-4

Australian Army soldier, Sergeant Todd Langley, is killed in fighting in Afghanistan, bringing Australian casualties in the war to 28.
2011-07-4

A United Nations survey reveals Afghans have paid about US$2.5 (or £1.5) billion in bribes in the last year.
2010-01-19