A suicide attack on a foreign military convoy in Kandahar kills at least eleven nearby children and wounds sixteen including five Romanian soldiers. 2018-04-30
NATO says the Afghan Air Force dropped its first laser-guided bomb on a Taliban compound on March 22. NATO have trained the Afghans in use of the equipment. 2018-03-27
Two successive suicide bombers on foot kill at least 24 people and injure 91 others, including senior security and police officials, after striking close to the Afghan Ministry of Defence in Kabul. The Taliban claims responsibility by disclosing the death of 58 officers and commanders. Another bombing took place not long after. 2016-09-5
At least two people are killed and 12 injured after a suicide bomb attack on a police training center in Helmand Province. 2016-05-14
A suicide bomber kills at least 26 and injures nearly 50 in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar Province near the border with Pakistan. 2016-02-27
Several American personnel are suspended after an official report finds that human error was to blame for an airstrike on a Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz in October that killed 30 people. No criminal charges were filed. 2015-11-25
The Taliban launches a major offensive in the Yamgan District of Badakhshan Province with hundreds of militants involved. 2015-06-6
Taliban bombard Bagram Air Base. They kill three people and destroy a helicopter, wounding three personnel on board. 2012-09-11
NATO fatalities rise to 529 making 2010 the most deadly year of the war since 2001. 2010-09-21
A United States air strike kills an al-Qaeda leader who was thought to have been planning suicide bombings. 2010-08-16