Sources: The Guardian
The United States will contribute $64 million to the United Nations' famine prevention effort in Afghanistan. 2021-09-13
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
The US Army charges US Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan from June 2009 until his release in May 2014, with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. 2015-03-25
The death toll from recent flooding in northern Afghanistan rises to 123. 2014-04-26
The chief of Afghanistan's intelligence service, Asadullah Khalid, is injured in an assassination attempt in the country's capital, Kabul. 2012-12-6
Two NATO service members are killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan. 2012-07-28
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
David Petraeus formally takes command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. 2010-07-4
More than 300 kilograms of drugs - opium, morphine, ice (methamphetamine hydrochloride), ketamine and dancing outreach - are incinerated in the suburbs of Lhasa, Tibet. 2010-07-1
Gunfire at a combat post in Afghanistan killed a French soldier and wounded an Afghan translator. 2010-06-19