Sources: The Guardian
The Afghanistan health department reports two deaths from Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever. 2023-05-27
Pakistan and Afghanistan report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. 2022-05-29
Lawmakers in Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of Parliament, have accused the Ministry of Finance of hiding the names of people accused of embezzling $8 million per day, or $3 billion annually, from customs. The acting minister of finance did not deny the claims but did say that there are reports of corruption involving governors, police commanders, and employees of the Ministry of Finance as well as ordinary citizens. 2021-05-26
Officials in Takhar Province, Afghanistan, report that 12 civilians, 11 of them children, were killed by an airstrike on a madrasa. The central government says it killed 12 Taliban fighters. 2020-10-22
According to witnesses who fled fighting in Nangarhar province, fighters loyal to Islamic State seize substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability, scorching opium poppy fields that help to fund the Taliban's campaign to overthrow the Afghan government. 2015-06-29
A bombing in Qalat, capital of the southern Zabul Province, kills three U.S. soldiers and two U.S. civilians, along with an Afghan doctor. An American civilian dies in another attack in the east of the country. 2013-04-6
Roadside car bombs kill 14 civilians travelling in two vehicles in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province. 2012-07-8
The United States investigates dozens of its troops in Afghanistan in relation to use and distribution of heroin, morphine or other opiates during 2010 and 2011 as the U.S. military struggles to watch its far-flung troops and monitor for substance abuse. 2012-04-22
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
Fourteen civilians are killed and four others injured when a minibus struck a roadside bomb while traveling to Herat, Afghanistan. 2010-12-16