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Afghanistan and United States officials exchange proposals for the release of billions of dollars from the Afghan central bank reserves held abroad into a trust fund.
2022-07-26

The Taliban tightens its grip in many districts and cities in northern Afghanistan as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani calls on local militias to fight the armed group. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby says that the United States is willing to continue their airstrike campaign against the Taliban but warned that "it is up to the Afghan government to defend themselves" and also added that "it is their struggle".
2021-08-10

Afghan general and Kandahar police chief Abdul Raziq Achakzai is assassinated by one of his bodyguards during a high-level meeting inside the governor's compound with U.S. general Austin S. Miller. Gen. Miller escaped unharmed according to officials while the governor was critically injured. The Taliban claims responsibility.
2018-10-18

A helicopter crash kills two American NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan.
2013-04-9

Kandahar massacre: The United States pays the Afghanistan government $50,000 for every person murdered during the Kandahar massacre.
2012-03-25

Rocket fire and gunshots are reported in the Afghan city of Kandahar.
2011-10-8

Nine International Security Assistance Force soldiers are killed in a NATO helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan.
2010-09-21

The United States Army charges 5 US soldiers with murdering 3 Afghan civilians earlier this year.
2010-09-19

Two members of NATO's International Security Assistance Force are killed by improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan.
2010-08-23

Two weeks after the sacking of General Stanley A. McChrystal over comments that appeared in "Rolling Stone", a top French general is attacked for publicly criticising the United States-led war attempt on Afghanistan and questioning if the United States is controlling its allies.
2010-07-9