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Australian Army veteran and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith is granted bail with travel restrictions after his previous arrest for alleged war crimes while deployed to Afghanistan during the war.
2026-04-17

Turkey says that it will host a summit from April 24 to May 4 in an effort to end the war in Afghanistan.
2021-04-13

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

Taliban insurgents kill 13 and injure 55 people in an attack on a police headquarters in Puli Khumri, Afghanistan, using guns and suicide vests. The Taliban's high command recently rejected a ceasefire offer from the Afghan government.
2019-05-5

Suspect Taliban militants kill nine and kidnap 170 in an attack on three passenger buses in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
2016-05-31

A United States Air Force operated MQ-9 Reaper drone crashes at the Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.
2016-02-20

A suicide bomber kills at least 13 people and injures 14 in the Afghan city of Jalalabad.
2016-01-17

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

At least ten Afghan police officers are killed in a Taliban attack on checkpoints in Helmand Province.
2015-05-24

The Taliban announces the start of their spring offensive, signaling plans to step up attacks as the weather warms across Afghanistan, making both travel and fighting easier.
2013-04-27