Sources: Reuters
Three locals and a company employee are killed and five others are wounded in clashes between residents and employees of a Chinese company contracted for ore washing by the Afghan Ministry of Mining at a gold extraction site in Chah Ab District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. The company's operations are later suspended pending a probe into the incident. 2026-01-6
Marine Corps General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. announces that the final American troops have left Afghanistan, concluding U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan war. U.S. President Joe Biden also confirms the end of the war in a statement. 2021-08-30
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison demands an apology from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs after a spokesman tweeted a political cartoon of an Australian soldier killing an Afghan child in a post criticizing the Australian Defence Forces' recent war crimes in Afghanistan. 2020-11-30
The Taliban launches multiple attacks on security checkpoints in Afghanistan, killing at least 27 members of the security forces. Twenty-two Taliban members are also killed and 16 others are injured. 2018-09-17
Caitlan Coleman, an American woman kidnapped and held hostage for five years in Afghanistan, accused her husband Joshua Boyle physically and emotionally abusing her while the family was being held by Taliban-linked militants. 2018-09-5
Taliban forces overrun the Sangin District in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province following clashes with Afghan security forces which left dozens dead. Taliban militants have reportedly surrounded the local police compound with around 170 officers trapped inside the compound, according to a local official. 2015-12-21
A bomb explodes at a cemetery in the Afghan province of Nangarhar, killing at least 14 people. 2013-08-8
German troops kill at least five Afghan soldiers in a friendly fire incident north of the capital Kabul. 2010-04-3
A remotely operated bomb killed 6 people traveling in southern Afghanistan in Tirin Kot, the capital of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province. 2010-03-13
Two dozen Afghan Taliban insurgents launch coordinated attacks against the presidential palace and other buildings in central Kabul on the day a new government is to be sworn in. 2010-01-18