U.S. troops shoot dead two "armed men" at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport as evacuations of Western diplomats and allied Afghans continue. 2021-08-16
A spokesperson for Kandahar Province Governor Rohullah Khanzada says that the Taliban has captured the city of Kandahar. 2021-07-9
Afghan actress and filmmaker Saba Sahar survives an assassination attempt in Kabul while on the way to work, she suffered four gunshot wounds and was taken to a private hospital. The Taliban's spokesman denies any involvement in the attack. 2020-08-25
A gunman, reportedly wearing an Afghan police uniform, kills at least 14 people and wounds dozens more in the Shiite Karte Sakhi shrine in Kabul on the beginning of Ashura. Police kill the attacker. 2016-10-11
David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist and a 2015 winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award, and Afghan journalist and translator Zabihullah Tamanna are killed when the Afghan army unit they were accompanying comes under fire near Marjah in Helmand Province. 2016-06-5
A Taliban suicide bomb attack on a Turkish government vehicle in Kabul kills at least one person. 2015-02-26
A U.S. major general Harold J. Greene is killed, and a German brigadier general and several American troops are among the 15 wounded, in an attack by an Afghan soldier gunman - who was killed by Afghan soldiers - at Kabul's Marshal Fahim National Defense University. 2014-08-5
A suicide bombing at a funeral in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar kills at least 25 people. 2012-09-4
Two suicide bombings near a NATO base kill at least 12 people and wound 50 others in the Sayed Abad district of Afghanistan's Wardak province. 2012-09-1