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

Taliban member of the cultural commission Enamullah Samangani announces an amnesty across Afghanistan and urges women to join their government in the first mention of women's rights by the group since seizing Kabul: while Samangani did not specify what he meant by "amnesty", he said that "the Islamic Emirate doesn't want women to be victims" and that "they should be in the government structure according to sharia law".
2021-08-17

Tajikistan says that over 350 citizens from Afghanistan have crossed the Afghan–Tajik border.
2021-07-14

Nearly 300 migrants including Syrians arrived in Edirne province, Turkey, on the border with Greece in a bid to go to Europe. Another group of migrants arrived on the coast of Ayvacik in Çanakkale, western Turkey, and wanted to go to the Greek island of Lesbos by boats. Turkish officials announced that the security forces will not intervene to prevent the crossing of any migrants, including those from Syria and other countries like Afghanistan and Iran.
2020-02-28

66 people, including children, have been wounded after a series of ten explosions in restaurants and public squares hit the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, as the country marked the 100th anniversary of its independence from British rule. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings. Even if many bombs exploded and several people were injured, no one died in the attacks.
2019-08-19

Pakistan, Iran, China, and Russia agree on joint efforts against the Islamic State group in Afghanistan, in an effort to ensure peace and eliminate terrorism from the region.
2018-07-13

An Afghan diplomat is shot dead at the Afghan consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
2017-02-6

A suicide bomber kills 5 in a targeted attack on a British embassy vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2014-11-27

A suicide rickshaw bomber detonates in a marketplace in Maymana, Afghanistan, killing 15 people.
2014-03-18

The Taliban warn that Kazakhstan's decision to send troops to Afghanistan will have "severe consequences".
2011-05-22