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2018-12-25 The Afghan health ministry says that yesterday's attack by a suicide bomber and three gunmen on a government building in Kabul killed at least 43 people. No group has claimed responsibility. War in Afghanistan

2018-11-28 A series of U.S. airstrikes kills at least 30 Afghan civilians, including 16 children, in Garmsir District, Helmand Province. Additional civilians were left wounded or buried in the rubble. The target of the strikes was a suspected Taliban compound. The United States' strategy aims to push the Taliban into talks. Afghanistan

2017-06-6 2017 Herat bombing War in Afghanistan

2017-04-21 2017 Camp Shaheen attack War in Afghanistan

2016-04-16 According to a police chief, at least 40 Taliban fighters are killed after launching an offensive against Afghan security forces to seize the strategic northern city of Kunduz while four security force personnel are also killed. Afghanistan

2016-03-5 The Afghan Taliban releases a statement rejecting peace talks with the government of Afghanistan until foreign forces stop attacking their positions and withdraw from the country. Direct peace talks between the government and the Taliban were expected to take place in Islamabad, Pakistan next week. Afghanistan

2015-03-25 The Afghan National Army kills twenty-nine insurgents and injures twenty-one others in a series of operations in Daikundi, Ghazni, and Parwan provinces during the past 24 hours. Parwan

2014-03-11 Gunmen in Kabul, Afghanistan kill Swedish Radio foreign correspondent Nils Horner. Afghanistan

2013-10-15 A bomb in a mosque in Afghanistan's Logar Province kills the governor Arsala Jamal and results in other injuries. Afghanistan

2011-01-7 A suicide bomber kills 17 people and wounds at least 20 others in a public bathhouse in Kandahar province, Afghanistan; the Taliban claims responsibility for the attack. Afghanistan