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At least 21 people are killed and 38 others are injured in a traffic accident in Grishk District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
2024-03-17

General Austin Scott Miller formally relinquishes control of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He is replaced by Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie.
2021-07-12

The Taliban seizes control of Shir Khan Bandar, a town that contains Afghanistan's main border crossing into Tajikistan.
2021-06-22

The U.S. military disciplines more than a dozen personnel for mistakes that led to the bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital that killed 42 people in Afghanistan last October. No criminal charges are pending. The partially redacted investigation report is expected to be made public shortly.
2016-03-16

Afghanistan’s acting defense minister has stated that the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz bombed on 3 October by U.S. forces was being used as a safe haven by insurgents. MSF has repeatedly denied the allegation, stating "Every staff member in Kunduz working for MSF has repeatedly reported to us that there were no armed people in the hospital at the time of the bombing".
2015-10-19

A suicide car bomb kills 25 people and wounds 10 in southeastern Afghanistan close to a U.S. base.
2015-07-12

A suicide bomber kills at least four people and wounds 16 in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
2014-10-8

Gunmen in Kabul, Afghanistan kill Swedish Radio foreign correspondent Nils Horner.
2014-03-11

A car bomb detonates in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing two contractors working with ISAF.
2014-02-10

An international conference on the future of Afghanistan opens in Kabul co-chaired by the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. The conference endorses a goal for Afghan forces to lead security operations across the country by 2014. Afghan President Hamid Karzai suggests raising the size of the Afghan National Army to 170,000 troops and the Afghan National Police to 134,000 officers by 2011.
2010-07-20