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Afghanistan reports an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on a poultry farm in Herat Province.
2021-02-25

Taliban militants say they have kidnapped 27 local peace activists in Farah Province as they were traveling from Herat Province.
2019-12-25

An ISIL suicide bomber kills 14 people and wounds over 60 others at a police checkpoint near Hamid Karzai International Airport. The attack coincides with Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum returning to Afghanistan after more than a year in exile in Turkey. Dostum and his entourage are unhurt.
2018-07-22

A Taliban raid kills at least 20 Afghan police officers in southern Afghanistan.
2017-05-21

According to provincial officials, at least eight people are killed and another 22 are injured by a roadside bomb in Farah Province. However, according to locals, the attack was actually an airstrike.
2017-03-4

The Taliban, in a statement claiming responsibility for yesterday's rocket attacks into Kabul, Afghanistan, says the intended target was U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in the capital to help defuse a crisis within the unity government. Kerry had departed less than an hour earlier. No casualties have been reported.
2016-04-10

Dozens of militants are killed in fighting between rival Taliban factions in Afghanistan's western Herat Province.
2016-03-10

The Taliban announced it overran Ghoryan in western Herat, the second district to fall in three days.
2015-10-21

The Taliban announces the start of their spring offensive, signaling plans to step up attacks as the weather warms across Afghanistan, making both travel and fighting easier.
2013-04-27