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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

According to Save the Children, over 26,000 children have been killed in the Afghanistan war from 2005 to 2019.
2020-11-23

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

The second trial of U.S. citizen Nicholas Slatten, the former Blackwater (now Academi) employee who was found guilty in 2013 of first-degree murder in connection to the killing in 2007 of fourteen unarmed civilians on Baghdad's Nisour Square and sentenced to life in prison, ends in a mistrial.
2018-09-6

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 targets a NATO convoy in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul, killing at least four Afghans, eight civilians, and five members of the International Security Assistance Force.
2011-10-29

Afghan President Hamid Karzai issues a "last warning" to the United States and NATO after yet another raid kills 14 more civilians.
2011-05-29