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U.S. President Joe Biden says that he plans to withdraw all remaining American troops in Afghanistan by September 11. The United States also reiterates its support for the Afghan government against the Taliban, which declines to comment on the apparent change from the previously-agreed deadline of May 1.
2021-04-13

An insider attack by seven Taliban infiltrators killed 25 Afghan Armed Forces in Qarabagh, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.
2019-12-14

At least nine Afghan security forces are killed in clashes with Taliban forces in northeastern Afghanistan.
2019-11-3

An Afghan soldier kills 3 U.S. troops and injures 1 other in Achin, Nangarhar Province. The Taliban claims responsibility, saying the Afghan soldier was one of several Taliban infiltrators in the Afghan Armed Forces.
2017-06-10

Taliban officials make an offer to protect national interests such as copper mines and an international gas pipeline to assist the development of Afghanistan.
2016-11-29

The Afghan Taliban announces that Haibatullah Akhundzada will be its new leader replacing Akhtar Mansour who died recently in a drone strike. Sirajuddin Haqqani and Mullah Yaqoob are named as deputy leaders.
2016-05-25

The United States sends more troops to Afghanistan's southern Helmand province to shore up security forces who are facing sustained attacks from the Taliban.
2016-02-9

Carrying coffins holding the beheaded bodies of seven ethnic Hazara, thousands of demonstrators from Afghanistan's different ethnic groups - Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek, and Hazara - march on the Presidential Palace in Kabul, urging the government to take action against the rising violence against Afghan civilians. The murders, which the United Nations denounced as a potential war crime, have fueled a growing sense of insecurity since the Taliban briefly seized control of Kunduz in late September.
2015-11-11

Six Taliban fighters including shadowy district governor are killed in separate operations in western Herat province.
2010-10-11

A Taliban spokesman warns Afghans listed in the Afghan War Diary published on Wikileaks that "we know how to punish them".
2010-07-30