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The New Zealand Defence Force withdraws their troops from Afghanistan, ending New Zealand's involvement in the war.
2021-03-29

New Zealand announces that it will withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by May.
2021-02-16

A suicide bomber kills eleven and injures thirteen in an attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
2019-06-13

Judith Collins resigns from the New Zealand Cabinet following allegations that she undermined the head of the Serious Fraud Office in 2011 when she had ministerial responsibility.
2014-08-30

Afghanistan: A bomb kills three NATO soldiers in east Afghanistan. An explosion in a cemetery in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, in Afghanistan kills two people. A NATO soldier is killed by an Afghan police officer. Three New Zealand soldiers are killed in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan when the convoy in which they were traveling was hit by an improvised explosive device.
2012-08-19

At least twelve people are killed and 80 injured during a protest in the Afghan city of Taloqan against the killing of four civilians in a NATO raid.
2011-05-18

Australia and New Zealand mark Anzac Day. Events occur in Afghanistan, France, Turkey and Vietnam, while Julia Gillard heads to South Korea.
2011-04-25

Thousands of Afghans protest in Badakhshan province over U.S. plans to hold an "International Burn-a-Koran Day", despite its cancellation.
2010-09-11

New Zealand experiences its first combat fatality in Afghanistan; he was also the country's first military death in fighting anywhere for a decade.
2010-08-4

New Zealand's Chatham Islands, French Polynesia, Hawaii and Ecuador's Galápagos Islands are among the other world areas struck by the resulting tsunami as the "biggest tsunami warning in history" gets underway.
2010-02-27