Three people are killed and 12 more are wounded during a shootout as civilians protest in Jalalabad against the Taliban banner replacing Afghanistan's national flag. 2021-08-18
Pakistan rejects accusations by the Afghan first vice-president Amrullah Saleh that the Pakistani Air Force provides air support to the Taliban. Pakistani authorities rebuffed the accusation on Friday, saying that the Air Force limits itself to safeguarding Pakistani territory. 2021-07-16
According to Save the Children, over 26,000 children have been killed in the Afghanistan war from 2005 to 2019. 2020-11-23
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with the Taliban and the Afghanistan government in Doha, Qatar to negotiate a peace deal. 2020-11-21
Afghanistan's Loya Jirga approves to release 400 "hard-core" Taliban prisoners after deliberation. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says he will sign the order and that doing this, the Afghan government complies with the Taliban demand of freeing prisoners to start intra-Afghan peace talks. 2020-08-9
An American is identified as the victim killed in a Kabul grenade attack on a United Nations convoy. 2019-11-26
The Taliban attacks two units of Afghan security forces in the Baghlan-e-Markazi district of Baghlan Province, killing at least 39 soldiers and police officers. 2018-08-15
The Parliament of Afghanistan approves a strategic pact with the United States which should see US troops present in Afghanistan until 2014. 2012-05-26
The Taliban claims responsibility for the death of Ahmad Wali Karzai, the brother of Hamid Karzai, and one of the most powerful people in Afghanistan. 2011-07-12