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United Nations special envoy on Afghanistan Deborah Lyons says that efforts by the United States and Russia should be "focused and coherent" and complement peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. She also urges an end to the violence in the country.
2021-03-23

A series of U.S. airstrikes kills at least 30 Afghan civilians, including 16 children, in Garmsir District, Helmand Province. Additional civilians were left injured or buried in the rubble. The target of the strikes was a suspected Taliban compound. The United States' strategy aims to push the Taliban into talks.
2018-11-28

A Taliban raid kills at least 20 Afghan police officers in southern Afghanistan.
2017-05-21

The Taliban, in a statement claiming responsibility for yesterday's rocket attacks into Kabul, Afghanistan, says the intended target was U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in the capital to help defuse a crisis within the unity government. Kerry had departed less than an hour earlier. No casualties have been reported.
2016-04-10

Taliban fighters fire explosives at Afghanistan's Parliament while it is in session. Members of Parliament said no one was wounded while a Taliban spokesperson claims it caused heavy casualties.
2016-03-28

An Afghan police officer, allegedly tied to Taliban, poisons and kills ten of his colleagues in Urozgan province.
2016-01-26

Taliban insurgents overrun two security checkpoints near Kandahar in the southern Helmand Province, killing at least 29 border police officers, according to local officials.
2015-10-14

Taliban forces take over the Warduj District of the Badakhshan Province as government forces retreat.
2015-10-1

The Afghan government claims that Taliban leader Mohammad Omar died in April 2013 in Pakistan of natural causes.
2015-07-29

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