Sources: Fox News
Afghanistan releases American engineer Mark Frerichs in exchange for Afghan drug lord Bashir Noorzai, who has been held by the United States on drug charges since April 2005. 2022-09-19
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces that 21 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan. 2021-09-10
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain says that around 100 Americans remain in Afghanistan following the August 31 withdrawal deadline. He also says that the Biden administration will still try to rescue them. 2021-09-5
Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health reports its first death from COVID-19, a 40-year-old man in Balkh Province. 2020-03-22
A U.S. civil contractor is kidnapped by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan's Khost Province. A Taliban leader who declined to be named tells Reuters they had kidnapped an American in Khost but did not provide further details. 2020-02-6
The U.S. military says two American service members have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. 2019-11-20
Pakistani forces rescue Canadian Joshua Boyle, American Caitlan Coleman, and their family, in the Kurram Valley. The family had been kidnapped by the Taliban nearly five years ago in Afghanistan's Wardak Province. 2017-10-12
A suicide bomber kills at least 13 people and injures 14 in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. 2016-01-17
Taliban militants execute a 7-year-old boy for "spying for the government" in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, in an increasing wave of killings. 2010-06-10
German troops kill at least five Afghan soldiers in a friendly fire incident north of the capital Kabul. 2010-04-3