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May 10 – Between 150 to 300 people are killed during flash floods in Baghlan Province. [16] May 15 – A military Mi-17 helicopter crashes in Ghor Province, killing one person. [17] May 17: Six people, including three Spanish nationals, are killed and seven others are injured in a gun attack in Bamiyan. [18]
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 ...
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 ...
Aug. 26, 2021 — Islamic State group suicide bombers and gunmen kill over 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops in an attack on the crowds trying to be evacuated at Kabul’s airport. March 23, 2022 ...
The 2024 Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes were a series of armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between Taliban ruled Afghanistan, its allied terrorists and Pakistan, at many locations along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, including North Waziristan, South Waziristan, Wana, Dera Ismail Khan, Shangla, Khost, and Paktika. [5]
In July 2021, the US Intelligence Community estimated that the government of Afghanistan could collapse between six and 12 months after the departure of American troops. [36] Intelligence agencies later reduced the estimation to one month. [37] However, the government collapsed within days, much more rapidly than many anticipated. [37]
2016. 2020. 2024. Afghanistan competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, its first Olympics since the return of Taliban rule in 2021 and the self-imposed exile of many of the country's leading athletes, especially women. It also marked the nation's sixteenth appearance in these games since 1936.
The year 2021 in Afghanistan was marked by a major offensive from the Taliban beginning in May and the Taliban ... This page was last edited on 15 August 2024, ...