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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

Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura and five Afghans are killed in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan when militants open fire on their car while they were travelling to monitor a project.
2019-12-4

Three U.S. troops are killed and three others are wounded in an IED blast near Ghazni, Afghanistan.
2018-11-27

At least 26 Afghan security forces are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide blast in a mosque inside an army base in Khost Province, Afghanistan.
2018-11-23

Gunfire is heard in the Afghan capital Kabul with security forces looking for attackers with at least one person killed and six injured.
2016-09-6

A U.S. service member becomes the first U.S. military combat casualty in Afghanistan since January 2016 when he is killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) while on patrol near the city of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province. Another American service member and six Afghan soldiers were also injured in the blast.
2016-08-23

The U.S. Department of Defense will make payments to families of victims of last week's U.S. airstrike that struck a Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. At least 22 people were killed including 12 staff members and 10 patients, including three children. MSF says 33 people are still missing and presumed to have died in the fire.
2015-10-10

A suicide car bomb kills 25 people and wounds 10 in southeastern Afghanistan close to a U.S. base.
2015-07-12

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

In Afghanistan, a man wearing an Afghan military uniform attacks and kills three American soldiers, in what appears to be an insider attack on U.S. International Security Assistance Force soldiers, based in east Afghanistan's Paktika Province.
2013-06-8