Sources: The Guardian
The Taliban government confirms that it will attend the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing, China, next week, as the countries form closer economic ties, including the potential construction of a large copper mine in Logar Province, Afghanistan. 2023-10-15
Afghanistan reports an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu on a poultry farm in Herat Province. 2021-02-25
A bomb explodes in a classroom at Ghazni University in Afghanistan, wounding at least nineteen students. The same university was targeted last month with a bomb attached to a university minibus. That bomb killed one person and injured five others. 2019-10-8
A 5.7 magnitude earthquake strikes 25 kilometers from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, leaving 33 people dead and another 115 injured. Heavy damage of buildings are reported across Nangarhar Province. 2013-04-24
Roadside car bombs kill 14 civilians travelling in two vehicles in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province. 2012-07-8
A roadside bomb kills six NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan. 2012-07-8
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
Abdul Khaliq Farahi, the Afghan consul general in Pakistan, is released by gunmen after two years in captivity. 2010-11-14
An explosion rocks Taliban birthplace Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, wounding eight people. 2010-09-30
Colonel Bob Seddon resigns as principal ammunition technical officer of the Royal Logistic Corps citing concerns about "the pressures on his team operating in Afghanistan". 2010-05-24