Sources: BBC
Australian Army veteran and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith is granted bail with travel restrictions after his previous arrest for alleged war crimes while deployed to Afghanistan during the war. 2026-04-17
U.S. President Joe Biden says that he plans to withdraw all remaining American troops in Afghanistan by September 11. The United States also reiterates its support for the Afghan government against the Taliban, which declines to comment on the apparent change from the previously-agreed deadline of May 1. 2021-04-13
A Taliban truck bomb in eastern Afghanistan kills three police officers and injures 36 other people, including twenty children. 2019-10-16
A suicide bomber kills four people and injures over 100 others in a car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. 2019-01-14
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, to attempt to discuss peace with the Taliban, which has declined such talks with the Afghan government. 2018-09-7
Two U.S. service members are killed and a third is injured during a raid against ISIL militants in Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province. 2017-04-27
Taliban insurgents seize control of the strategic town of Sangin in the southern Helmand Province after a year-long battle with Afghan security forces. 2017-03-23
Gunfire is heard in the Afghan capital Kabul with security forces looking for attackers with at least one person killed and six injured. 2016-09-6
Two Romanian soldiers are killed along with assailants in an insider attack in Afghanistan. 2016-05-7
A United States Air Force operated MQ-9 Reaper drone crashes at the Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan. 2016-02-20