Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby says that evacuations have resumed at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport. 2021-08-17
President Ashraf Ghani and Vice President Amrullah Saleh leave the country and are currently in Tajikistan. 2021-08-15
General Austin Scott Miller formally relinquishes control of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. He is replaced by Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie. 2021-07-12
China evacuates 210 nationals from Afghanistan on a flight to Wuhan. 2021-07-9
A bomb kills at least three people in Tagab District, Kapisa Province. 2020-10-7
At least three Afghan security forces members are killed and five more injured when gunmen storm their compound in the city of Gardez in Paktia Province. The Taliban claims responsibility for the attack. 2020-09-1
In the first attack since the end of a truce declared by the Taliban, and despite a petition of the government for the Taliban to extend the ceasefire, at least 14 security forces members are killed in an attack on a checkpoint in Parwan. A government spokesperson says the Taliban also suffered casualties. The group has not commented on the attack. 2020-05-28
The United Nations reports that civilian casualties reached a record level in 2015; at least 3,545 non-combatants were killed and 7,457 injured. 2016-02-14
NATO forces kill three civilians in a raid on a house in Wardak Province, prompting hundreds of angry people to block a main road to express their frustration with the United States. 2010-08-12