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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 ...
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is a UN Special Political Mission tasked with assisting the people of Afghanistan. UNAMA was established on 28 March 2002 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1401. Reviewed annually, this mandate has been altered over time to reflect the needs of the country and was extended ...
United States Central Command (United States Armed Forces) On 29 August 2021, an unmanned drone attack by the United States killed 10 civilians in Kabul, Afghanistan, including 7 children. The U.S. initially said that the vehicle targeted in the strike had visited an Islamic State safe house and that there had been several secondary explosions ...
August 26, 2024 at 6:20 AM. President Biden mourned the three-year anniversary of the attack at the Kabul airport, in which 13 U.S. service members were killed. He named the 13 service members in ...
Battle of Qala-i-Jangi. 25 November 2001. 1 December 2001. Qala-i-Jangi District. Battle: It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the war in Afghanistan. Battle of Takur Ghar. 4 March 2002. 5 March 2002. The peak of Takur Ghar.
The Kabul police stated they were investigating the attack. [5] Islamic State claimed responsibility on September 3, 2024, a day after the bombing, claiming they killed and wounded at least 45 people, but the claim is unconfirmed. [6]
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.
2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul. The 2009 UN guest house attack happened in the early hours of October 28, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan. 3 Taliban attackers stormed a guest house used by the United Nations, killing five UN staff, two Afghan security personnel and an Afghan civilian.