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Baghlan is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. As of 2020,the province has a population of about 1,014,634.
Uruzgan,also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan,is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. Uruzgan is located in the center of the country. The population is 436,079,and the province is mostly a tribal society. Tarinkot serves as the capital of the province.
Arghandab is a district in the central part of Kandahar Province,Afghanistan. It borders Panjwai and Khakrez districts to the west,Shah Wali Kot District to the north and east and Kandahar District to the east and south.
Deh Rawood is a district in Uruzgan Province,southern Afghanistan,and the name of the town that serves as district seat. Deh Rawood lies along the Helmand River. The tribes in the district are Pashtun,dominated by the Noorzai and Populzai sub-tribes.
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 following lists events that happened during 2004 in Afghanistan.
Khairkot District,also known as Katawaz (کټواز) or Zarghun Shar District,is a district of Paktika Province,Afghanistan. The district is within the heartland of the Sulaimankhel tribe of Ghilji Pashtuns. The district capital is Khairkot town.
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict from 2001 to 2021. It began when an international military coalition led by the United States launched an invasion of Afghanistan,toppling the Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate and establishing the internationally recognized Islamic Republic three years later. The conflict ultimately ended with the 2021 Taliban offensive,which overthrew the Islamic Republic,and re-established the Islamic Emirate. It was the longest war in the military history of the United States,surpassing the length of the Vietnam War (1955–1975) by approximately 6 months.
The following lists events from 2014 in Afghanistan.
The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Afghanistan.
The town of Sangin,in Helmand Province,Afghanistan,was captured by the Taliban on 23 March 2017. For two months,the Taliban had launched fresh attacks in trying to recapture the town.
The Ghazni offensive began on 10 August 2018,when Taliban fighters launched an assault on the city of Ghazni,Afghanistan's sixth largest city and one which has been culturally and strategically important for much of the country's history. The attack resulted in the deaths of hundreds of insurgents,soldiers,police,and civilians. The city also sustained large-scale property damage. The battle,occurring only weeks before Afghanistan's 2018 parliamentary election,was the largest since a three-day truce in June had raised hopes of peace talks.
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.
In May 2020,a series of insurgent attacks took place in Afghanistan,starting when the Taliban killed 20 Afghan soldiers and wounded 29 others in Zari,Balkh and Grishk,Helmand on 1 and 3 May,respectively. On 12 May,a hospital's maternity ward in Kabul and a funeral in Kuz Kunar (Khewa),Nangarhar were attacked,resulting in the deaths of 56 people and injuries of 148 others,including newborn babies,mothers,nurses,and mourners. ISIL–KP claimed responsibility for the funeral bombing,but no insurgent group claimed responsibility for the hospital shooting.
On 17 October 2017,insurgents attacked Gardez,Paktia Province and Ghazni Province in Afghanistan.
Abdul Salam Hanafi is an Afghan Uzbek political and Deobandi-Islamic religious leader who is a senior leader of the Taliban,an acting second deputy prime minister,alongside Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Kabir,of Afghanistan since 2021,and was a central member of the negotiation team in the Qatar office. He has also served as deputy minister of education in the Taliban government from 1996-2001. After the Taliban government collapse in 2001,following the United States invasion of Afghanistan,Hanafi was appointed by the Taliban leadership as a top general to oversee the Taliban’s military activities in Jowzjan Province,Northern Afghanistan from May 2007 until sometime in 2008.
Amir Khan Muttaqi is an Afghan Taliban politician serving as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan since 7 September 2021. He was also a member of the negotiation team in the Qatar office.
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.
Mohammad Hasan Akhund is an Afghan mullah,politician and Taliban leader who is currently the acting prime minister of Afghanistan.
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