The Netherlands increases its military presence in Afghanistan to help evacuate 700 Dutch nationals and Afghan allies. Dutch foreign minister Sigrid Kaag said last Friday that multiple Afghans are eligible for evacuation to the Netherlands. 2021-08-22
U.S. Department of State spokesperson Ned Price announces that the U.S. Embassy is successfully evacuated. 2021-08-15
Afghan security forces fight a huge offensive by the Taliban in Helmand as the United States begins to withdraw troops from the country before the final deadline of September 11. 2021-05-4
A member of the Afghan National Directorate of Security is shot dead and his driver injured in Kabul. 2020-09-16
At least seven policemen are killed and 15 others injured after a car bomb explodes outside a police station in Ghazni, Afghanistan. As yet nobody has claimed responsibility. 2020-08-9
A vehicle triggers a roadside bomb in Balkh, Afghanistan; all eight civilians on board are killed. 2019-09-1
Five people are killed and over 10 injured in an IED bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan. 2019-06-3
Mortars are fired at the diplomatic quarter of Kabul during a speech by President Ashraf Ghani. After several hours of fighting, including a helicopter attack on a building behind the Id Gah Mosque, police say the attackers are dead and four people are wounded. 2018-08-21
Taliban militants execute a 7-year-old boy for "spying for the government" in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, in an increasing wave of killings. 2010-06-10