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The World Health Organization says that 29 million Afghan people require urgent aid, emphasising the importance of increased investment in healthcare services in Afghanistan.
2023-08-18

Flash floods in Afghanistan's Kabul, the Ghazni and Maidan Wardak provinces, have killed at least 31 people, injured 74 others, and left 41 missing in the past three days. Around 250 livestock are also killed. In neighboring Pakistan, thirteen people are also killed due to heavy rains and landslides.
2023-07-23

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says that Iran does not recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan due to the lack of an inclusive government as well as recent tensions between Iran and the Taliban over border incidents and a dispute over the Helmand River.
2023-05-25

The Taliban and the Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Company of China agree to a 25-year deal to allow the Chinese firm to drill for oil in the Amu Darya basin. It is Afghanistan's first major energy extraction agreement with a foreign firm since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
2023-01-6

A bombing targeting a Hindu shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills three people. Attacks against Hindu and Sikh minorities increased in the country in the last years, mainly by Islamic State militants.
2021-02-6

Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura and five Afghans are killed in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan when militants open fire on their car while they were travelling to monitor a project.
2019-12-4

A bomb explodes in a classroom at Ghazni University in Afghanistan, wounding at least nineteen students. The same university was targeted last month with a bomb attached to a university minibus. That bomb killed one person and injured five others.
2019-10-8

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai denounces the reported death of eleven children at the hands of NATO forces in Kunar Province and orders a government inquiry into the killings.
2013-04-8

Two NATO service members are killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan.
2012-07-28

A suicide bomber kills two policemen and a civilian, the second attack in four days for which the Taliban claims responsibility, while separately, three policemen are killed in a 'friendly fire' incident as US Vice President Joe Biden arrives for a visit in Afghanistan.
2011-01-10