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Clashes break out on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with Pakistan launching airstrikes on several locations in Afghanistan, including the capital of Kabul, targeting Taliban government forces directly, in what Pakistani defense minister Khawaja Asif describes as "open war".
2026-02-27

The Islamic State claims responsibility for yesterday's suicide bombing outside a Taliban building in Kabul, Afghanistan, which killed six people.
2024-09-3

Eight suicide bombers attack two police stations in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing five people and injuring 16. ISIL claim one attack and the Taliban claim the other.
2018-05-9

The Taliban, in a statement claiming responsibility for yesterday's rocket attacks into Kabul, Afghanistan, says the intended target was U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who was in the capital to help defuse a crisis within the unity government. Kerry had departed less than an hour earlier. No casualties have been reported.
2016-04-10

A suicide bombing by the Taliban near the headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force in the Afghan capital of Kabul kills at least six people.
2012-09-8

Taliban gunmen shoot a woman accused of adultery to death while men watching the execution cheer, in a village near Kabul, Afghanistan.
2012-07-8

NATO-backed Afghan security forces end a 12-hour siege carried out by Taliban insurgents on the Spozhmai Hotel outside Kabul, killing all five insurgents.
2012-06-22

Taliban insurgents attack the United States embassy, NATO headquarters and police buildings in the Afghan capital Kabul.
2011-09-13

A Taliban attack on a British Council centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, results in the death of at least eight people.
2011-08-19

13 Afghan soldiers were killed in two separate suicide attacks launched by Taliban in the capital city of Afghanistan.
2010-12-20