Three security personnel are killed in a car bombing near Kabul. The Taliban claims responsibility for the attack. 2021-04-4
At least nine Afghan security forces are killed in clashes with Taliban forces in northeastern Afghanistan. 2019-11-3
At least 10 people are killed and 19 are wounded in an attack on a compound of the G4S security contracting company in the Afghan capital Kabul. The Taliban's strategy seeks to strengthen its position before any formal negotiations. 2018-11-28
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
A Taliban raid kills at least 20 Afghan police officers in southern Afghanistan. 2017-05-21
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
United States President Barack Obama telephoned MSF International President Joanne Liu to apologize for the U.S. bombing of the hospital in Afghanistan, express his condolences for the 22 people killed, commit to provide a transparent, thorough, and objective accounting of the facts and circumstances of the incident, and implement any changes to make tragedies like this one less likely to occur in the future. 2015-10-7
The death toll from Saturday's airstrikes on the Doctors Without Borders' hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan rises to at least 10 patients and 12 hospital staff in Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Doctors without Borders issues a statement expressing its "clear assumption that a war crime has been committed," and announces that all staff have left the hospital and the city. 2015-10-4
The U.S.-led coalition dispatches American troops to Kunduz to help Afghan forces combat Taliban militants. 2015-09-30
The United States advises that a counterterrorism operation on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan has killed American and Italian al-Qaeda hostages Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto. 2015-04-23