Hundreds of people, including Afghans, hold a demonstration against the Taliban in Stockholm, Sweden. 2021-08-22
The Taliban captures Jalalabad, the provincial capital of the Nangarhar Province. The jihadist group faced no resistance as the Afghan military and provincial governor surrendered. Taliban forces also enter the Char Asiab District of the Kabul Province, advancing within 11 km of Kabul. 2021-08-15
The Taliban captures the border town of Islam Qala, Herat, Afghanistan's biggest border crossing with Iran. 2021-07-9
Two bombs explode in a Hazara district in western Kabul, killing ten people and injuring twelve others. 2021-06-1
At least five people are killed and another nine injured after two bombing attacks. The attack occurred in Jalrez District, Maidan Wardak Province. 2020-10-20
Afghan general and Kandahar police chief Abdul Raziq Achakzai is assassinated by one of his bodyguards during a high-level meeting inside the governor's compound with U.S. general Austin S. Miller. Gen. Miller escaped unharmed according to officials while the governor was critically injured. The Taliban claims responsibility. 2018-10-18
A roadside bomb kills at least 11 people, all from the same family, in Logar Province. 2017-05-19
Six police officers are killed in an insider attack in Uruzgan province. 2016-05-21
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