Three security personnel are killed in a car bombing near Kabul. The Taliban claims responsibility for the attack. 2021-04-4
Suicide bombings in Afghanistan kill 48 people including civilians and soldiers. The first is in Charikar at a rally for Ashraf Ghani, the President of Afghanistan. The second is in Kabul near the U.S. embassy. 2019-09-17
The Taliban kill over 40 people in three separate attacks while Afghan-Taliban peace talks are taking place in Moscow. 12 others were injured. 2019-02-5
Twelve Afghan National Police officers are killed in a Taliban "infiltration attack" in the southern Helmand Province. 2017-02-28
An explosion in Kabul leads to several casualties. Afghan police report that the attack was aimed at a member of the National Assembly, Fakori Behishti. 2016-12-28
A suicide-bomb attack on a joint Afghan-U.S. patrol near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan's Parwan Province, kills at least six U.S. soldiers and wounds another six. The Taliban's spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, claims responsibility for the attack in a message on Twitter. 2015-12-21
Michael Fallon, Secretary of State for Defence for the United Kingdom, announces that over 400 troops will remain in Afghanistan through 2016. The military personnel will train Afghan toops and support NATO operations in Kabul. 2015-10-28
Taliban bombard Bagram Air Base. They kill three people and destroy a helicopter, wounding three personnel on board. 2012-09-11
The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai gives private security firms operating in that country four months to disband. 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