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U.S. president Joe Biden authorizes the deployment of 5,000 American troops to Afghanistan to help evacuate diplomatic staff and personnel. He reaffirms that the United States should end its 20-year presence in the country.
2021-08-14

Australian Minister for Defence Peter Dutton says that the country has ended its military involvement in Afghanistan.
2021-07-11

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

An improvised explosive device detonates in a partially constructed building in Bati Kot, Afghanistan. The bomb kills two labourers and injures five more, three seriously.
2019-10-28

40 people are killed and over 100 injured by a car bombing and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban claims responsibility and loses five gunmen.
2019-07-1

Two U.S. Troops are killed in an ambush by the Taliban in Wardak Province, Afghanistan.
2019-06-26

At least 10 people are killed by a pair of explosions in the Tsamkani District in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia. Spokesman Naqib Ahmad Atal says the Taliban are to blame.
2016-08-5

The Parliament of Afghanistan approves a strategic pact with the United States which should see US troops present in Afghanistan until 2014.
2012-05-26

Seven civilians, including children, are killed by two separate roadside mines in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni Province; an 8-year-old girl was killed when militants gave her a remote-controlled explosive in a bag and told her to give it to police officers in Oruzgan Province.
2011-06-27

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