President Ashraf Ghani is expected to offer a three-phase peace roadmap, which includes a ceasefire and agreement, during a proposed meeting in Turkey. 2021-04-4
A Taliban attack on an Afghan military base in Sangin District, Helmand Province, kills at least 10 Afghan soldiers and injures 4 others. 2019-12-28
Taliban insurgents ambush an Afghan National Army checkpoint, killing 15 members of the security forces. 2019-12-24
Twin suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan, kill at least 25 people, including prominent Agence France-Presse photographer Shah Marai and three Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty journalists who were covering the first bombing. ISIL's Afghan branch claims responsibility. 2018-04-30
A suicide attack on a foreign military convoy in Kandahar kills at least eleven nearby children and wounds sixteen including five Romanian soldiers. 2018-04-30
A suicide bomber kills at least five people and injures ten more near government offices in Kabul. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack. 2017-04-12
A blast occurs at a mosque in a small village in the Nangarhar Province, killing four people and injuring nearly 40 more. 2016-06-10
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
General Stanley A. McChrystal, recently sacked from his post in Afghanistan by the United States for speaking to "Rolling Stone", is given a lecturing post at a major university in the United States. 2010-08-16