Sources: BBC
A suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 6 people and injures 13. 2024-09-2
The Taliban violently disperse a demonstration by women's rights activists who were marching to the education ministry in Kabul to demand broader rights, by chasing and beating women and firing gunshots into the air. 2022-08-13
A week after two power pylons were destroyed in Kabul's Mir Bacha Kot district, an unidentified man blows up another power plant in Kalakan District on Wednesday night, removing a further 260 megawatts of electricity imported from Uzbekistan. 2021-05-13
Two judges, both female, are shot dead in an ambush while en-route to their offices at the Supreme Court in Kabul; their driver is wounded. Afghan officials claim the Taliban is responsible, however no one has claimed responsibility for the attack and a spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, says that the group was not responsible. 2021-01-17
Four people are killed and eight others injured by the bombing of a mosque in Kabul. No group claimed responsibility. 2020-06-12
An American is identified as the victim killed in a Kabul grenade attack on a United Nations convoy. 2019-11-26
Gunfire and an explosion kills 20 and injures over 50 in an attack at the Kabul office of the Vice Presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh, who was slightly injured in the attack. 2019-07-28
Michael Fallon, Secretary of State for Defence for the United Kingdom, announces that over 400 troops will remain in Afghanistan through 2016. The military personnel will train Afghan toops and support NATO operations in Kabul. 2015-10-28
An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Moment magnitude scale (MMS) strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, 158 miles from Kabul, in the remote province of Badakhshan, one of Afghanistan’s most inaccessible regions. Tremors reached as far as New Delhi, India. At least 263 are dead in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan with more than 1,000 injured. The death toll will likely climb since communications in much of the affected areas are cut, and rescue teams had not yet reached districts closest to the epicenter, including some that are controlled by Taliban insurgents. 2015-10-26
Afghanistan commemorates Ahmad Shah Massoud, assassinated today eleven years ago according to the Afghan calendar, with a ceremony in Kabul on the national holiday of "Haftai Shahid" (Martyr Week). [http:--english.sina.com-world-2012-0908-504552.html (Sina)] [https:--web.archive.org-web-20140729011357-http:--bokhdinews.af-english-internal-7845-Afghans-commemorate-late-resistance-leader-Masoud (Bokhdi)] [http:--www.thefrontierpost.com-news-7916- ("The Frontier Post")]date=April 2020 2012-09-8