📅 16 Juli 2021
The conference on regional connectivity brought together leaders and officials from Central and South Asia, including Afghanistan and Pakistan. SCO representatives endorsed connectivity as a route...
📅 29 September 2014
Ashraf Ghani was inaugurated president after a disputed election and a U.S.-brokered agreement with rival Abdullah Abdullah. Abdullah became chief executive in a newly created power-sharing...
📅 28 December 2014
NATO formally completed ISAF after a three-year transition that transferred the security lead to Afghan forces. The end of ISAF did not end foreign military involvement or the war: a smaller NATO...
📅 1 Januari 2015
Resolute Support began as a non-combat NATO mission to train, advise and assist Afghan security institutions. Its launch marked a change in the form of foreign involvement, not a full military...
📅 28 Februari 2018
At the Kabul Process conference, President Ghani offered to recognize the Taliban as a political group and proposed peace talks without preconditions. The Afghan government sought an Afghan-led...
📅 14 April 2021
President Joe Biden announced that U.S. forces would leave Afghanistan by 11 September 2021, later completing the withdrawal in August. The decision followed the 2020 U.S.-Taliban agreement and was...
📅 15 Augustus 2021
The Taliban entered Kabul after a rapid nationwide offensive and the collapse of the U.S.-backed Islamic Republic. President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The speed of collapse exposed the dependence...
📅 8 September 2019
President Donald Trump canceled planned Camp David meetings with Taliban leaders and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani after a Kabul bombing. The cancellation interrupted U.S.-Taliban talks that had...
