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The United States says that it is sending an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine, as well as heavy weapons, including artillery systems, artillery rounds, armored personnel carriers, Mi-17 helicopters transferred from Afghanistan, 300 Switchblade drones and unmanned surface vehicles for coastal defence.
2022-04-13

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces that 21 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan.
2021-09-10

A Department of Defense report presented to the United States Congress estimates at 499 the number of civilian deaths in US military actions during the year 2017, with more than 450 reports remaining to be assessed. The casualties occurred in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.
2018-06-1

Seven Pakistani army soldiers and 19 Taliban fighters are killed in overnight fighting in North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border.
2015-06-8

A suicide car bomber hits the headquarters of EUPOL Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing one person and injuring five others. The Taliban have claimed responsibility.
2015-01-5

The United States declares Afghanistan one of its major non-NATO allies, a designation that permits it to buy advanced U.S. weaponry.
2012-07-7

David Petraeus, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is honored with the Grand Cross with swords in the Order of Orange-Nassau in The Hague for his service as a four-star general in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2012-03-16

The World Health Organisation removes India from the list of polio endemic countries with only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria remaining.
2012-02-25

The Dutch cabinet Balkenende IV collapses after a dispute on extending the mandate of Task Force Uruzgan in Afghanistan.
2010-02-20

American media report that the attacker who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan was a Jordanian triple agent.
2010-01-4