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2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes. The international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes were a series of armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The conflict also separately includes the BLA, and Pakistani Taliban.
The Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan, commonly known as the United States–Taliban deal or the Doha Accord, [1] was a peace agreement signed by the United States and the Taliban on 29 February 2020 in Doha, Qatar, to bring an end to the 2001–2021 war in Afghanistan. [2][3] Negotiated for the US by Zalmay Khalilzad for the Trump ...
March 2024 – On 18 March 2024 Pakistan launched pre-dawn airstrikes targeting TTP hideouts in Afghanistan's Khost and Paktika province. [ 104 ] [ 105 ] [ 106 ] The strikes were in retaliation to an earlier militant attack by TTP that resulted in death of seven Pakistani soldiers and six TTP militants.
The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war.In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban signed the United States–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar, [7] which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments, provided ...
On 16 April 2022, the Pakistani military conducted predawn airstrikes on multiple targets in Afghanistan 's Khost and Kunar provinces. [2] Afghan officials said the attacks killed at least 47 civilians and injured 23 others. [5][2][6][7] Initial reports described the attacks as either rocket strikes or aerial strikes carried out by a number of ...
September 22 – Iran summons the acting head of Afghanistan's embassy after saying that a visiting Afghan official disrespected the country's national anthem by not standing during a performance of the anthem, days after a similar incident occurred in Pakistan. The Afghan delegate apologizes, claiming that this was because the public ...
Paktia (Pashto پکتيا – Paktyā) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktia Province is divided into 15 districts and has a population of roughly 623,000, [3] which is mostly a tribal society living in rural areas. Pashtuns make up the majority of ...
Names. This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan[94]in order to distinguish it from the country's various other wars,[95]notably the ongoing Afghan conflictof which it was a part,[96]and the Soviet–Afghan War.