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The 2008 Kandahar bombing of February 17, 2008 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was an attack targeting a crowd of people watching a dog-fighting competition. With more than 100 killed, it was the deadliest attack on Afghan soil since 2001. [1]
In a statement on the attack, the United Nations reports that "An investigation by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has found that some 90 civilians, including 60 children, were among those killed during military operations in the strife-torn nation's western Herat province last week." The investigation found ...
The Afghan PMC chief of security for the base and a Jordanian military officer from the Jordanian spy agency Dairat al-Mukhabarat al-Ammah were also killed in the attack. On May 28, 2010, the 1,000th American fatality in Afghanistan was a Marine from Camp Pendleton killed by a roadside bomb while on a foot patrol in Helmand province. [19] [14]
20 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks: October 20, 2017: Kabul: 60+ Suicide bombing [223] [224] 28 December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing: December 28, 2017: Kabul: 50 killed and 80 wounded Attack was reported as Anti-Shi'ism. [225] [226] The attack killed 50 people and injured over 80. [227] 2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack: January 20 ...
November 26: 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan occurs in which 28 Pakistani soldiers are killed at the Durand Line, although it's disputed which side instigated the event. December 9: Mohammed Ishmael, Ghaziabad district (Kunar province) police chief is killed in a suicide bombing of a mosque carried out by a 12-year-old Pakistani boy.
Joint Task Force-Crisis Response personnel carrying the remains of fellow service members killed in the airport attack, 27 August 2021. In April 2024, CNN reported on newly disclosed video footage from a Marine's GoPro camera. This footage revealed extensive gunfire following the explosion, that CNN reported was contrary to Pentagon accounts of ...
Lance Corporal James Fullarton, aged 24, Fusilier Simon Annis, aged 22, and Fusilier Louis Carter, aged 18, all of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers were killed in Afghanistan on Sunday 16 August 2009. The three men were taking part in a foot patrol near Sangin in Helmand province when Lance Corporal James Fullarton, who was the ...
Less than two weeks before the raid on April 13, 2017, and less than a mile away from the location of the raid, the US military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb, a GBU-43/B MOAB on an ISIL-KP tunnel network once used by the Mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War in the 80s and Osama bin Laden during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 ...