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
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, to attempt to discuss peace with the Taliban, which has declined such talks with the Afghan government. 2018-09-7
The American University of Afghanistan in Kabul is attacked by suspected Taliban militants, resulting in at least 13 deaths and 30 injured. 2016-08-24
A suicide bomber strikes a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan killing five civilians and wounding nine others. [https:--www.nytimes.com-aponline-2016-02-08-world-asia-ap-as-afghanistan.html?_r=0 ("The New York Times")] [http:--www.appeal-democrat.com-news-regional_news-asia-suicide-bombing-in-northern-afghanistan-kills-soldiers-article_ac5ceb5c-df0d-5b15-bb8b-70c101e9cf69.html (Appeal Democrat)]date=August 2019 2016-02-8
A Taliban attack on Kandahar International Airport results in at least 50 civilian and Afghan National Security Forces personnel dead and 35 injured. 2015-12-9
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
The Afghan National Army kills twenty-nine insurgents and injures twenty-one others in a series of operations in Daikundi, Ghazni, and Parwan provinces during the past 24 hours. 2015-03-25
In a separate unrelated incident, an Italian soldier is killed and three are wounded when a child throws a grenade at a NATO convoy in west Afghanistan's Farah Province. 2013-06-8