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Two guards are killed at a water dam near the Pashtun Kot, Faryab, by the Taliban.
2021-03-28

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that the U.S. and the Taliban have negotiated a proposal for a seven-day reduction of violence in Afghanistan.
2020-02-13

Taliban forces claim to have taken control of the western city of Farah after two days of fighting. It is the second provincial capital to be temporarily taken over, after a similar assault on Kunduz in 2015.
2018-05-16

A suicide bomber kills five people at the entrance of a Kabul Bank subsidiary near the Embassy of the United States in Kabul. The Taliban claims their attack targeted soldiers and police withdrawing their salaries.
2017-08-29

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

Five people are killed in a Taliban attack on Afghan Member of Parliament Mir Wali's home in Helmand Province. At least three security guards and two civilians were killed in the assault; Wali and others were injured. The gunmen are holding a number of occupants hostage.
2016-12-21

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

Several Taliban insurgents storm into Kandahar International Airport and engage Afghan security forces in a firefight.
2015-12-8

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

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