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An economic crisis brewed in the country when the United States decided to freeze Da Afghanistan Bank's, the central bank of Afghanistan, assets of $9.5bn. [45] This increased selling pressure on its currency, Afghan afghani , and it extended a significant drop in value. [ 46 ]
July 19: 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan begins. August 16: Nangar Khel massacre - Eight civilians including a pregnant women and a baby died when Polish soldiers shelled the village of Nangar Khel. Seven soldiers have been charged with war crimes. November 6: 2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing kills 75, including six Afghan MPs.
Pakistani Taliban released a video showing the capture of border post in Bajaur District on 30 December, the post was already vacated and Pakistani forces claimed that the troops were already transferred from that post to newer more fortified posts along the border. [61] On 31 December 2024, reports claimed that Pakistani military had entered ...
The Taliban march into Kabul as internationally backed President Ashraf Ghani flees the country. Aug. 26, 2021 — Islamic State group suicide bombers and gunmen kill over 170 Afghans and 13 U.S ...
This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan [95] in order to distinguish it from Afghanistan's various other wars, [96] notably the ongoing Afghan conflict of which it was a part, [97] and the Soviet–Afghan War.
According to Afghan media conflict erupted in the Sarkano district of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, corresponding to the Bajaur and Mohmand districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.As per reports, an Afghan border security force official was killed, and two others critically injured after a Pakistani mortar struck a bunker during the clashes, a ...
Bush and wife visited Afghanistan to inaugurate the renovated Embassy of the United States in Kabul. 2007: 13 May: Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes: Skirmishes began with Pakistan. [27] 2010: U.S. President Barack Obama sent additional 33,000 U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan, with the total international troops reaching 150,000. 2011
The Biden administration is giving immigration judges and asylum officers more access to classified information to help them determine which migrants might have ties to terrorism or pose a threat ...