Name | Date | Location | Deaths, Wounded and Captures | Notes |
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Battle of Qala-i-Jangi | November 25-December 1, 2001 | Qala-i-Jangi, Balkh Province | 500+ | |
Dasht-i-Leili massacre of Taliban prisoners by Junbish-i Milli | December 2001 | Dasht-i-Leili desert | 250–3000 | Taliban prisoners were allegedly shot and/or suffocated to death in metal shipping containers. [69] [70] [71] [72] |
2002 Kabul bombing | December 5, 2002 | Kabul | 26 killed and 167 wounded | The Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's group have all been suspected. [73] [74] [75] [76] |
2004 Deh Rawood bombing | January 31, 2004 | Deh Rawood, Deh Rawood District, Uruzgan province | 8 | A Remote-controlled bomb destroyed a vehicle, killing Mayor Khalif Sadaht and seven of his relatives. Five people were wounded. [77] [78] |
2004 Kunduz attack | June 9, 2004 | Kunduz, Kunduz Province | 11 [79] [80] [81] | Eleven Chinese aid workers from Jiangxi province were killed in their compound by a score of armed men in Kunduz, and another 4-5 were wounded [82] [83] [84] [85] |
2006 Tarinkot bombing | January 5, 2006 | Tarinkot, Uruzgan province | 11 | A suicide bomber carried out an attack in the city of Tirin Kot, in southern Uruzgan province, a few hundred yards away from where US ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann was meeting with local leaders. The explosion killed at least 10 civilians and wounded approximately 50 others. The US Ambassador was unhurt in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack and said the bomb was intended to kill “high-ranking Americans.” [86] |
Attempted assassination of Dick Cheney | February 27, 2007 | Bagram | 23 | A suicide bombing at the outer gate of the Bagram Airfield left at least 23 people dead and injured 20 others. |
2007 Helmand Province airstrikes | June 22, 2007 | Helmand Province | 45 | At least 45 Afghan civilians were killed in NATO-led airstrikes |
2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack | January 14, 2008 | Kabul | 6 to 7 people killed and 6 wounded | Taliban claimed responsibility. [87] |
2008 Kandahar bombing | February 17, 2008 | Kandahar | 100 killed and 100 wounded | Crowd of people who were watching a dog-fighting competition were attacked. [88] |
Sarposa prison attack of 2008 | June 13, 2008 | Kandahar | 15 policemen killed from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan side. 10 killed from Taliban side. | Reportedly, attack was carried out by Taliban insurgents. [89] |
Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike | July 6, 2008 | Haska Meyna, Haska Meyna District, Nangarhar Province | 47 | |
2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul | July 7, 2008 | Kabul | 58 killed and 141 wounded | Taliban and Haqqani network are the alleged perpetrators. [90] [91] [92] |
February 2009 raids on Kabul | February 11, 2009 | Kabul | 21 killed and 57 wounded | Series of strikes by the Taliban against Afghan government targets. [93] [94] |
2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing | August 15, 2009 | Kabul | 7 killed and 91 wounded | Attack was carried out by a Taliban suicide bomber. [95] |
2009 Kandahar bombing | August 25, 2009 | Kandahar | 43 killed and 65+ wounded | The Taliban were thought to be responsible. [96] [97] The target was apparently the headquarters of a Japanese construction company. [98] |
2009 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul Haqqani network | October 8, 2009 | Kabul | 17 killed and 83 wounded | The Taliban were the alleged perpetrators. [99] [100] |
2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul | October 28, 2009 | Kabul | 11 killed | Five UN staff, two Afghan security personnel and an Afghan civilians were killed. [101] |
2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing | August 15, 2009 | Kabul | 7 killed and 91 wounded | Attack was carried out by a Taliban suicide bomber. [102] |
2009 Kandahar bombing | August 25, 2009 | Kandahar | 43 killed and 65+ wounded | The Taliban were thought to be responsible. [103] [104] The target was apparently the headquarters of a Japanese construction company. [105] |
2009 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul Haqqani network | October 8, 2009 | Kabul | 17 killed and 83 wounded | The Taliban were the alleged perpetrators. [106] [107] |
January 2010 Kabul attack | January 18, 2010 | Kabul | 12 killed and 71 wounded | Taliban gunmen were the reported perpetrators. [108] |
Uruzgan helicopter attack | February 21, 2010 | Uruzgan | 27-33 | Killing of Afghan civilians, including over 20 men, four women and one child, by United States Army with another 12 civilians wounded |
February 2010 Kabul attack | February 28, 2010 | Kabul | 18 killed and 36 wounded | Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba is reported as perpetrator. [109] [110] |
Maywand District killings | January-May 2010 | Kandahar province | 3 killed | A group of U.S. Army soldiers are the reported perpetrators. [111] [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] [117] |
May 2010 Kabul bombing | May 18, 2010 | Kabul | 18 killed and 52 wounded | Taliban are the reported perpetrators. [118] [119] [120] [121] |
Nadahan wedding bombing | June 9, 2010 | Nagahan, Arghandab District, Kandahar Province | 40 | at least 40 civilians were killed in a suicide bomb attack at a wedding in the Arghandab District of southern Kandahar Province |
2010 Badakhshan massacre by the Taliban | August 6, 2010 | Badakhshan | 10 killed | Victims were 6 Americans, 2 Afghans, 1 Briton and 1 German. [122] [123] [124] [125] [126] [127] [128] |
Kabul Bank shooting by the Taliban | February 19, 2011 | Jalalabad | 40 killed and 73+ wounded | Aljazeera reported that at least seven suicide bombers stormed a branch of the Kabul Bank. [129] [130] |
2011 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack | June 28, 2011 | Kabul | 21 killed | Taliban were reported as perpetrator. [131] [132] [133] |
September 2011 Kabul attack | September 13, 2011 | Kabul | 7 killed and 15 wounded | Taliban were the reported perpetrator. [134] [135] [136] [137] [138] |
2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings | December 6, 2011 | Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif | 80+ killed and 160+ wounded | Suicide bombing in Kabul and Mazar-i-Sharif is reported as the cause for fatalities. [139] [140] [141] |
Kandahar massacre | March 11, 2012 | Kandahar province | 16 killed and 6 wounded | Robert Bales is the reported perpetrator. [142] [143] |
April 2012 Afghanistan attacks | April 15-16, 2012 | Kabul | 47 killed and 44 wounded | Afghan Taliban and Haqqani Network are reported as perpetrators. [144] [145] [146] [147] |
11 June 2013 Kabul bombing | June 11, 2012 | Kabul | 17 killed and 39 wounded | Taliban took responsibility for the attack. [148] [149] [150] [151] |
2013 Afghan presidential palace attack | June 25, 2012 | Kabul | 11 killed | Taliban were the reported perpetrators. [152] |
Forward Operating Base Delhi Massacre by the Taliban | August 10, 2012 | Helmand Province | 3 killed and 1 wounded | Chai Boy of Afghan District Police Chief Sarwar Jan was the reported perpetrator. [153] [154] [155] |
January 2014 Kabul restaurant attack | January 17, 2014 | Kabul | 22 killed | Taliban were reported as perpetrator. [156] [157] [158] |
2014 Kabul Serena Hotel shooting | March 20, 2014 | Kabul | 9 killed and 2 wounded | Taliban were reported as perpetrator. [159] [160] [161] [162] |
2014 Paktika car bombing | July 15, 2014 | Paktika | 89 killed and 42 wounded | Haqqani network were the reported perpetrator. [163] [164] |
2014 Yahyakhel suicide bombing | November 23, 2014 | Yahya Khel District, Paktika Province | 61 killed | It was a suicide bombing. [165] [166] |
December 2014 Kabul bombings | December 11, 2014 | Kabul | 12 killed and 7 injured | Taliban gunmen were the reported perpetrators. [167] [168] |
2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack | March 13, 2015 | Shāre Naw, Kabul | 14 killed and 6 wounded | The Taliban were thought to be responsible. [169] [170] [171] [172] [173] |
2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing | April 18, 2015 | Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province | 33 killed and 100 wounded | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province were the reported perpetrator. [174] [175] [176] |
2015 Kabul Parliament attack | June 22, 2015 | Kabul | 9 killed and 40 wounded | Terrorist attack against Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai. [177] [178] |
7 August 2015 Kabul attacks | August 7, 2015 | Kabul | 50+ killed and 500+ wounded | Taliban were reported as perpetrator. [179] [180] [181] [182] |
10 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing | August 10, 2015 | Kabul | 5 killed and 16 wounded | The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. [183] [184] |
22 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing | August 22, 2015 | Kabul | 10 killed and 60 wounded | Part of Taliban insurgency. [185] [186] |
2015 Zabul beheading by Islamic State | November 9, 2015 | Zabul Province | 7 killed | Islamic State is the reported perpetrator. [187] [188] |
2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul | April 19, 2016 | Kabul | 9 killed and 7 wounded | The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. [189] [190] [191] |
April 2016 Kabul attack | April 19, 2016 | Kabul | 69 killed and 367 wounded | Taliban are the reported perpetrators. [192] [193] [194] |
Kabul attack on Canadian Embassy guards | June 20, 2016 | Kabul | 16 killed and 9 wounded | Attack claimed to be conducted by the Taliban or the Islamic State in Khorasan Province. [195] [196] |
July 2016 Kabul bombing | July 23, 2016 | Kabul | 97+ killed and 260 wounded | Islamic State - Khorasan Province are the reported perpetrator. [197] [198] [199] [200] |
American University of Afghanistan attack | August 24, 2016 | Kabul | 20 killed and 53+ wounded | Taliban were the reported perpetrator. [201] [202] |
September 2016 Kabul attacks | September 5-6, 2016 | Kabul | 42 to 58 killed and 109 wounded | Taliban were the reported perpetrator. [203] [204] [205] |
January 2017 Afghanistan bombings | January 10, 2017 | Kabul, Kandahar, and in Lashkargah | 68+ to 98+ killed and 94+ wounded | Taliban (claimed the first and the third bombing, denied responsibility of the second bombing) Haqqani network (suspected of the second bombing). [206] [207] [208] |
March 2017 Kabul attack | March 8, 2017 | Daoud Khan Military Hospital, Kabul | 49 - 100+ killed and 63+ wounded | The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed to have carried out the attack, but officials suspected the Haqqani network instead. [209] [210] [211] " [212] |
2017 Camp Shaheen attack | April 21, 2017 | Mazar-e-Sharif | All killed (Taliban and Haqqani network side), and 140–256 killed and 160+ wounded (Afghan soldiers side) | This was an attack on Afghan National Army by at least ten Taliban fighters. [213] [214] [215] [216] |
May 2017 Kabul attack | May 31, 2017 | Kabul | 90–150+ killed and 413+ wounded | Fatalities and casualties were caused by Truck bomb. [217] [218] [219] [220] |
20 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks | October 20, 2017 | Kabul | 60+ | Suicide bombing [221] [222] |
28 December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing | December 28, 2017 | Kabul | 50 killed and 80 wounded | Attack was reported as Anti-Shi'ism. [223] [224] The attack killed 50 people and injured over 80. [225] |
2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack | January 20, 2018 | Kabul | 46 killed and 14 wounded | Taliban were the reported perpetrator. [226] [227] [228] [229] |
Kabul ambulance bombing | January 27, 2018 | Kabul | 103 killed and 235 wounded | Taliban were the reported perpetrators. [230] [231] [232] |
March 2018 Kabul suicide bombing | March 21, 2018 | Kabul | 34 killed and 65 wounded | Attack was reported as Anti-Shi'ism. [233] [234] [235] [236] |
22 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombing | April 22, 2018 | Kabul | 69 killed and 120 wounded | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province were the reported perpetrator. [237] [238] [239] |
30 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombings | April 30, 2018 | Kabul | 29 killed and 50 wounded | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province were the reported perpetrators. [240] [241] [242] [243] |
August 2018 Gardez mosque attack | August 3, 2018 | Gardez, Paktika Province | 48 (including two perpetrators) | Two militants dressed in burqa entered a Shiite mosque in the town of Gardez in the province of Paktia and opened fire. Both attackers later blew themselves up. |
September 2018 Kabul attacks | September 6, 2018 | Kabul | 26 | 91 wounded |
2019 Kabul mosque bombing | July 1, 2019 | Kabul | 3 | 20 wounded |
1 July 2019 Kabul attack | July 1, 2019 | Kabul | 45 | 105 wounded |
2019 Ghazni bombing by the Taliban | July 7, 2019 | Ghazni | 15 | 180 wounded |
28 July 2019 Kabul suicide bombing | July 28, 2019 | Kabul | 20+ killed and 50 wounded | Four gunmen stormed the building and laid siege for hours before killed. [244] [245] |
7 August 2019 Kabul bombing | August 7, 2019 | Kabul | 14 killed and 145 wounded | A suicide car bomb exploded at a security checkpoint outside a police station. [246] [247] [248] |
17 August 2019 Kabul bombing | August 17, 2019 | Kabul | 92 killed and 142 wounded | Suicide bombing occurred in a wedding hall. [249] [250] [251] [252] |
2 and 5 September 2019 Kabul bombings | September 2 and 5, 2019 | Kabul | 28 killed and 159+ wounded | Victims were Afghans and foreign nationals. [253] |
17 September 2019 Afghanistan bombings | September 17, 2019 | Charikar, Kabul | 50 killed and 80 wounded | Attacks were carried out with two different suicide bombers in sperate locations. |
2019 Qalat bombing | September 19, 2019 | Qalati Ghilji | 40 killed and 140+ wounded | Suicide car bombing outside a hospital in Qalati Ghilji is the reported cause. [254] [255] [256] |
6 March 2020 Kabul shooting | March 6, 2020 | Kabul | 32 killed and 82 wounded | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province is the reported perpetrator. [257] [258] |
Kabul gurdwara attack | March 25, 2020 | Kabul | 25 killed and 8+ wounded | Abu Khalid al-Hindi is reported as peretrator. [259] [260] [261] [262] |
2020 Kabul University attack | November 2, 2020 | Kabul | 35 killed and 50 wounded | The attack was carried out by ISIS-K. [263] |
Murders of Enikass Radio workers by Islamic State | March 2, 2021 | Jalalabad | 3 women killed. | [264] |
2021 Kabul school bombing | May 8, 2021 | Dashte Barchi | 90 killed and 240 wounded | The attack was carried out by ISIS-K. [265] [266] [267] [268] [269] [270] [271] |
2021 Kabul hospital attack | November 2, 2021 | Kabul | 30+ killed and 50+ wounded | The attack was carried out by ISIS-K. [272] |