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Gunmen attack a security checkpoint in Puli Khumri, Baghlan Province, killing 13 police officers. An armoured personnel carrier and several police vehicles are also destroyed during the attack, which Afghan officials blame on the Taliban. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
2020-12-16

At least seven policemen are killed and 15 others injured after a car bomb explodes outside a police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan. As yet nobody has claimed responsibility.
2020-08-9

A suicide bomber kills two American troops near the Kandahar International Airport in Afghanistan. The Taliban insurgency claims responsibility.
2017-08-2

Twelve Afghan National Police officers are killed in a Taliban "infiltration attack" in the southern Helmand Province.
2017-02-28

Taliban militants kill eight people, including a police commander, in an ambush in northern Afghanistan.
2016-04-14

The Afghan Taliban releases a statement rejecting peace talks with the government of Afghanistan until foreign forces stop attacking their positions and withdraw from the country. Direct peace talks between the government and the Taliban were expected to take place in Islamabad, Pakistan next week.
2016-03-5

The Taliban gains control of the Ajristan District in Afghanistan's Ghazni Province after a week of battle.
2014-09-26

The Afghan Ministry of the Interior states that it has killed 27 Taliban insurgents during the previous 24 hours.
2012-09-4

A gunman wearing Afghan National Police uniform kills three members of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in southern Afghanistan.
2012-07-1

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