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At least four security forces personnel, including a commander, are killed in eastern and southern Afghanistan as clashes with an unidentified terrorist group intensify. Separately, in Kandahar, a Humvee containing explosives detonates, injuring seven police officers.
2021-02-13

First Vice President of Afghanistan Abdul Rashid Dostum survives an assassination attempt on his convoy while traveling to the Jowzjan Province in Afghanistan. The attack killed one bodyguard and injured two others.
2019-03-30

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan reports 289 civilians were killed ("301 with MSF update") and 559 injured during fighting in Kunduz between Taliban militants and Afghan National Security Forces in September and October. The U.N. says these numbers include casualties from the friendly-fire attack on the Doctors Without Borders hospital and noted the totals were likely to rise as more information becomes available.
2015-12-12

At least ten Afghan police officers are killed in a Taliban attack on checkpoints in Helmand Province.
2015-05-24

A suicide bomber kills 5 in a targeted attack on a British embassy vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan.
2014-11-27

The death toll from a series of avalanches in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province rises to 50.
2012-03-7

The World Health Organisation removes India from the list of polio endemic countries with only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria remaining.
2012-02-25

Officials in Afghanistan said that the price of opium has doubled due to a blight. There are fears the higher prices will draw more farmers into that business.
2011-01-2

20 Taliban militants, including two rebel commanders, are killed in fighting with security forces in northeastern Takhar province, Afghanistan.
2010-10-7

Hundreds of people demonstrate and police shoot dead one person after a NATO-led raid murders civilians in Jalalabad Afghanistan.
2010-05-14