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Category:Taliban attacks. Category. : Taliban attacks. Attacks by the Taliban, a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement and military organization in Afghanistan; currently the de facto authorities in the country after years of waging war (an insurgency, or jihad). Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
At least 470. Perpetrators. Islamic State – Khorasan Province Taliban. There were many terrorist attacks in Afghanistan in 2021. These attacks left at least 350 people dead and at least another 200 injured. The Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021 resulted in terrorist attacks increasing 42% in 2021 in Afghanistan compared to 2020.
March 8: March 2017 Kabul attack. May 31: May 2017 Kabul attack. June 3: Three bombings at the funeral of a protester who died the day before killed at least 20 people. [7] June 15: A suicide bombing at a mosque killed four people. [8][9] July 24: A Taliban suicide bombing kills at least 35 people.
2021 Taliban offensive. 150,000–200,000 combat-oriented troops, including an unknown number of junior and ghost soldiers. [68] The 2021 Taliban offensive was a military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and allied militants that led to the fall of the Kabul -based Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year War in ...
Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...
A suicide bombing took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 August 2021, at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC), [11] during the evacuation from Afghanistan. [1][6][12][13] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [3][14][4] the first American ...
[citation needed] Taliban attacks continued at the same rate as they did in 2011, around 28,000 in 2013. [259] A German Bundeswehr soldier, part of ISAF's Regional Command North at Camp Marmal, 2011. Tensions between Pakistan and the US were heightened in late September 2011 after several Pakistan Frontier Corps soldiers were killed and wounded.
October 2020 Afghanistan attacks. The October 2020 Afghanistan attacks were multiple attacks launched by insurgents including the Taliban and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province in October 2020. The attacks left at least 243 people dead and 339 injured. 10 perpetrators were also killed in these attacks.