U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin makes an unannounced trip to Afghanistan ahead of a May 1 deadline to withdraw troops from the country. 2021-03-21
The death toll of a suicide bombing during a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan, four days ago, increases to 80. 2019-08-21
Four humvees packed with explosives controlled by suicide bombers kill 23, including eight election workers, in the province of Kandahar. The Taliban claimed 57 were killed. 2019-06-30
Pope Francis criticizes naming the U.S. military's biggest non-nuclear explosive as the Mother of All Bombs, saying that the word "mother" should not be used in reference to a deadly weapon. 2017-05-6
Taliban officials make an offer to protect national interests such as copper mines and an international gas pipeline to assist the development of Afghanistan. 2016-11-29
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
The United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says the July 2011 timetable to start withdrawing United States armed forces from Afghanistan is set in stone. 2010-08-16
General Stanley A. McChrystal, recently sacked from his post in Afghanistan by the United States for speaking to "Rolling Stone", is given a lecturing post at a major university in the United States. 2010-08-16