Russian intelligence sources reported that Panjshir resistance forces loyal to Amrullah Saleh had managed to re-capture Charikar and the surrounding areas of Parwan Province from the Taliban. 2021-08-17
U.S. diplomatic staff and western nationals are airlifted out of a heavily fortified part of Kabul. 2021-08-14
Taliban spokesperson Mohammad Suhail Shaheen says that the organization does not plan to attack the Afghan–Tajik border. 2021-07-8
U.S. President Joe Biden formally announces that American troops will leave Afghanistan by September 11. 2021-04-14
A female doctor is killed and a child is wounded in Jalalabad, Nangarhar, when a bomb attached to the doctor's rickshaw explodes, while seven workers at a Hazara plaster factory are shot dead in Surkh-Rōd District, Nangarhar. ISIL is suspected to be behind the attacks. 2021-03-5
A suicide bomber targeting the convoy of Rahmatullah Yarmal, the governor of Laghman Province, kills eight people and wounds 38 others. Yarmal survives the attack. 2020-10-5
Taliban gunmen storm a hotel in Badghis Province, killing four soldiers and two civilians. Three of the five gunmen are killed and two are arrested. 2019-07-13
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis criticizes The Pentagon for wasting US$28 million for Afghan woodland camouflage that did not match the country's terrain. 2017-07-24
Norway Foreign Minister Børge Brende says his government is doubling humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to around 200 million kroner (US$24 million). 2016-05-21
Another two Australian special forces are killed in a helicopter crash in Helmund province, making it the worst day for Australians in combat since the Vietnam War. 2012-08-29