Ahmad Massoud, who is leading the Panjshir resistance along with self-proclaimed acting president Amrullah Saleh, refuses to surrender the Panjshir Valley to the Taliban and says that war is "unavoidable" if the Taliban refuse dialogue on the formation of a comprehensive government. 2021-08-22
A Taliban militant is stabbed by protestors in Asadabad while celebrating Independence Day. Fellow Taliban militants open fire on the crowd after the stabbing, killing two people and wounding eight others. Additionally, two people are injured during a protest in Jalalabad. 2021-08-19
The Afghan embassy in Tajikistan issues a request to INTERPOL to arrest former president Ghani on the accusation that Ghani stole from the country's treasury when he left Afghanistan. 2021-08-18
According to Save the Children, over 26,000 children have been killed in the Afghanistan war from 2005 to 2019. 2020-11-23
A suicide car bomb kills 12 people and injures 20 others near the Interior Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan. 2019-11-13
The Afghan Ministry of Defense reports as many as 36 suspected ISIL militants were killed while no civilians were harmed in yesterday's bombing in Nangarhar Province using the so-called "mother of all bombs" (GBU-43). The ministry spokesman added these deaths have not been independently verified. 2017-04-14
President of France Nicolas Sarkozy visits Afghanistan to meet with the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and commander of the International Security Assistance Force David Petraeus before visiting French troops stationed in Surobi. 2011-07-12
4 Marines are killed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan when a roadside IED ambushes a convoy. Lance Corporals Joseph Rodewald, 22, Phillip Vinnedge, 19, Victor Dew, 20, and Cpl. Justin Cain, 22. 2010-10-13
Julian Assange, the director of Wikileaks, says that Wikileaks is planning to release the rest of Afghan War Diary, documents on the War in Afghanistan. 2010-08-12