Attack on Kabul maternity ward kills patients and staff

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...

After a Lashkar Gah bombing, relatives of victims and residents began a sit-in. The People’s Peace Movement grew into a march through government- and Taliban-held areas, demanding an end to the war.

The government and Taliban observed a three-day Eid ceasefire from 15 to 17 June. Fighters and civilians met publicly. The pause reflected public demand for peace but did not end the war.

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...

The United States and Taliban signed an agreement setting out a U.S. troop withdrawal timetable and Taliban commitments concerning al-Qaeda and intra-Afghan negotiations. Afghanistan’s elected...

Negotiators representing the Afghan government and the Taliban opened direct talks in Doha. The negotiations followed the U.S.-Taliban agreement and a difficult prisoner exchange, but did not...

UNAMA and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission recorded 3,035 civilian deaths and 5,785 injuries in 2020. Anti-government elements caused the majority of casualties, while...

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...

U.S. troops departed Bagram, the central hub of U.S. military operations, and the base was handed to Afghan security forces. The departure symbolized the shrinking foreign military footprint as...

UNAMA’s midyear update documented 5,183 civilian casualties in the first half of 2021, including 1,659 killed and 3,524 injured, a 47 percent increase from the same period in 2020. Casualties rose...