In Kabul, seven are killed after suicide bombers and gunmen attack the communications ministry. 2019-04-20
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
Twin suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan, kill at least 25 people, including prominent Agence France-Presse photographer Shah Marai and three Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty journalists who were covering the first bombing. ISIL's Afghan branch claims responsibility. 2018-04-30
Five anti-government-anti-Taliban protestors are shot dead by police in Kabul, Afghanistan, after demanding that the government step down in the wake of the May 2017 Kabul attack. 2017-06-2
A suicide bomber attacks a charity in the Kabul suburb of Shāre Naw with the Taliban claiming responsibility. 2016-09-6
The Afghan Taliban announces that Haibatullah Akhundzada will be its new leader replacing Akhtar Mansour who died recently in a drone strike. Sirajuddin Haqqani and Mullah Yaqoob are named as deputy leaders. 2016-05-25
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
A car bomb near Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport, that was targeting a NATO convoy passing through the area, kills one civilian and injures 33 others. The Taliban claim responsibility. 2015-12-28
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
A suicide bomber and gunmen attack a court building in the provincial capital of Maidan Shahr in Maidan Wardak resulting in the deaths of two police officers and four of the attackers. 2015-05-26