The Salang Pass is the primary mountain pass connecting northern Afghanistan with Parwan Province,with onward connections to Kabul Province,southern Afghanistan,and to the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Located on the border of Parwan Province and Baghlan Province,it is just to the East of the Kushan Pass,and both of them were of great importance in early times as they provided the most direct connections between the Kabul region with northern Afghanistan or Tokharistan. The Salang River originates nearby and flows south.
Charikar,officially renamed to Imam Abu Hanifa or Imam Azam,is the main town of the Koh Daman Valley and the capital of Parwan Province in northern Afghanistan. It has a population of around 171,200,which is majority Tajik populated. The town was officially renamed in December 2022 by the Taliban to honor the Sunni Muslim theologian and jurist Abu Hanifa,who is also sometimes called Imam Azam and was the founder of the Hanafi school of Islamic law.
The Taliban insurgency was an insurgency that began after the group's fall from power during the 2001 War in Afghanistan. The Taliban forces fought against the Afghan government,led by President Hamid Karzai,and later by President Ashraf Ghani,and against a US-led coalition of forces that has included all members of NATO;the 2021 Taliban offensive resulted in the collapse of the government of Ashraf Ghani. The private sector in Pakistan extends financial aid to the Taliban,contributing to their financial sustenance.
Asadullah Khalid is a politician in Afghanistan. He served as head of the National Directorate of Security (NDS),which is the domestic intelligence agency of Afghanistan. Before his appointment as the head of the NDS in September 2012,Khalid served as the Minister of Tribal and Border Affairs. Between 2005 and 2008,he was the Governor of Kandahar Province and prior to that as Governor of Ghazni Province (2002-2005). From 2018 until 2021 he was the Minister of Defense. Khalid is said to be affiliated with the Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan and has been noted as one of many loyalists of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Operation Mountain Fury was a NATO-led operation begun on September 16,2006 as a follow-up operation to Operation Medusa,to clear Taliban insurgents from the eastern provinces of Afghanistan. Another focus of the operation was to enable reconstruction projects such as schools,health-care facilities,and courthouses to take place in the targeted provinces.
The following lists events that happened during 2004 in Afghanistan.
Abdul Wahid Baba Jan,an ethnic Tajik from Parwan Province is a former senior security official of the Afghanistan government. He was a general of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan,but after the Soviet invasion he joined Ahmad Shah Masoud's forces and fought against the Soviet invasion. After the retreat of the Russian forces,he continued the war against Dr. Najibullah's government. Following the collapse of Najib's government,he entered Kabul with Ahmad Shah Masoud's forces and served in various departments of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under the leadership of Ustad Burhanuddin Rabbani.
General Mohammad Ayub Salangi born in Parwan is the former Police Chief of Kabul and the current Deputy Minister for Security in the Ministry of Interior.
The following lists events from 2014 in Afghanistan.
The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Afghanistan.
The 2015 Kabul Parliament attack occurred on June 22,2015,when members of the Taliban detonated a car bomb outside the National Assembly in Kabul then attacked the building with assault rifles and RPGs. Two civilians and seven Taliban died in the attack.
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Afghanistan.
Events in the year 2017 in Afghanistan.
Events in the year 2018 in Afghanistan.
The Battle of Farah began on 14 May 2018,when Taliban fighters launched an assault on the city of Farah,located in western Afghanistan.
The Islamic State–Taliban conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between the Islamic State and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The conflict escalated when militants who were affiliated with Islamic State –Khorasan Province killed Abdul Ghani,a senior Taliban commander in Logar province on 2 February 2015. Since then,the Taliban and IS-KP have engaged in clashes over the control of territory,mostly in eastern Afghanistan,but clashes have also occurred between the Taliban and IS-KP cells which are located in the north-west and south-west.
Events in the year 2020 in Afghanistan.
The Enlightenment Movement is a grassroots civil disobedience movement of Hazaras created in 2016 in Afghanistan in response to the Afghan government's change in routing plans for proposed international electricity networking,which was perceived as continuing historical anti-Hazara discrimination. The group organised major protests in Afghanistan and internationally during 2016 and 2017,protesting against discrimination. The group's youthful leadership challenged traditional Hazara leaders for representativity of the community.
The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing armed conflict between the National Resistance Front and allied groups which fight under the banner of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on one side,and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on the other side. On 17 August 2021,former first vice president of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh declared himself the "caretaker" president of Afghanistan and announced the resistance. On 26 August,a brief ceasefire was declared. On 1 September,talks broke down and fighting resumed as the Taliban attacked resistance positions.
