2004

March 21, 2004 - Afghan Aviation Minister, Mirwais Sadig, has been assassinated in the western city of Herat.

Mr. Sadiq is the son of the powerful warlord and governor of Herat Ismail Khan. More then 100 people have been killed in the clashes after the death of Mr. Sadiq.

March 6, 2004 - Armed men on a motorcycle killed Mohammed Isha, director of the Afghan Red Crescent in the southern province of Zabul, on Saturday

Feb 21 - Helicopter shot down by small gun fire ; pilot killed many injured

Feb 14 - A US soldier has been killed and at least nine wounded in a landmine explosion near the city of Ghazni about 150km (94-miles) south-west of Kabul

Feb 11 - Afghan intelligence officer killed
Mohammed Isa, deputy intelligence chief was shot dead  in Khost. The attacker blew himself up after being chased by Mr. Isa's bodygaurds.

Feb 7 - 20 killed in Afghan factional fight
KABUL, Feb 7: At least 20 people have been killed and 40 injured in three days of factional fighting between local militia commanders in northern Afghanistan, the Bakhtar news agency reported on Saturday.

Feb 3 - Eight die 'in Afghan car bombing'
Eight people have been killed in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan's southern Oruzgan province, state media say.

Jan 30 - Kabul visit off after bombs
A Welsh expert who was due to fly out to Afghanistan to train police officers has had his trip cancelled because of safety fears.

Jan 29 - US troops killed in Afghan blast
Seven United States soldiers have been killed and one is missing after an explosion at a weapons cache where they were working in Afghanistan.

Three others were injured in the blast in the southern province of Ghazni on Thursday, and they have been taken to Bagram air base near the capital Kabul.

Jan 28 - UK soldier dies in Afghan bombing
A British soldier has been killed in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in the city's second suicide bomb in two days.
The blast injured four other UK soldiers, two of them seriously, and an Afghan interpreter.

Jan 11 - Afghan clashes claim nine lives
Nine people have been killed in two fresh outbreaks of violence in Afghanistan's troubled south.

In neighbouring Helmand Province four suspected Taleban were killed as they planted a mine on a road regularly used by military patrols, officials said.

Jan 7 - Annan issues Afghanistan warning
Kofi Annan said in a report to the Security Council that continued violence could jeopardise national elections scheduled for June this year. He was speaking after two explosions in the southern city of Kandahar killed at least 15 people, most of them children.

More than 400 people, including militants, have been killed in unrest in the past six months.

Jan 7 - 12 Hazaras slaughtered with Knife in Baghram district of Helmand province

Reuters reports that Hazaras were killed by gunfire when their vehicle was ambushed. However, Hazara sources tells Hazara.net that the victims throats were cut with knife in the same way they were slaughtered in the city of Mazar Sharif in 1998. Recall around 15,000 Hazara men, women and children were slaughtered in Mazar Sharif.

Jan 6 - At least 13 dead, 8 of them school children plus 60 wounded in bomb blast in Kandahar

2003

Dec 28 - Six dead in Kabul car explosion
A huge bomb blast has killed at least six people - including four police officers and a security official - near the airport in the Afghan capital.

Dec 25 - Bomb blast hits UN Kabul compound
A bomb explosion has destroyed the wall of a United Nations compound in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Dec 22 - Rocket strike on Kabul amid talks
Two rockets hit a residential area in the north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, late on Sunday.

Dec 6  Bomb blast in Kandahar injures 18, 2 of them critical

Nov 18 - UN pulls back in east Afghanistan
The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, is withdrawing its workers from southern and eastern Afghanistan.
The announcement follows the killing of a 29-year-old French UNHCR employee, Bettina Goislard, in the eastern town of Ghazni on Sunday.

Nov 11 - Car bomb outside UN office in Kandahar
A car bomb has exploded outside a United Nations office in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.

Nov 7 - Indian man killed in Afghanistan
The man, an employee of a private Indian firm which was working on a Afghan mobile phone project, was killed in Kabul's Taimani district.

Oct 29 - Opium 'threatens' Afghan future
Production rose by six percent on last year, to around 3,600 metric tonnes, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime found.

Oct 21 - Nato in Afghan security warning
The commander of Nato-led peacekeepers in Afghanistan has warned that security in Kabul may be at risk if stability is not brought to the country's provinces.

Oct 2 - Canadian troops die in Kabul blast
Two Canadian soldiers have been killed, 3 others wounded in an explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul

June 7 - Peacekeepers killed in Kabul blast
Car bomb has killed four German peacekeepers and injured dozens of other people in an apparent suicide attack on a bus in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

June 6 - High alert after Afghan battle  (49 dead)
Afghan soldiers remain on high alert in the south of the country following Wednesday's clash with Taleban fighters that left 49 people dead.

March 9 - Kabul force investigates blast
The international peacekeeping force in Kabul has launched an investigation after a bomb attack on one of its patrols killed an interpreter and lightly injured a Dutch soldier.  

2002 (partial)

Sept 5 - Carnage in central Kabul
Just hours before the assassination attempt on President Karzai, a powerful car bomb went off in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 15 people, including a number of police officers.

Sept 5 - Karzai survives attempt on his life
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has survived an assassination attempt in the southern city of Kandahar by a suspected member of the Taleban.

Sept 1 - Four die in Afghan mine blasts
At least four Afghan mine clearers have been killed by two blasts close to the Bagram air base in Afghanistan.

July 23 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai asks for US bodyguards
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked for American bodyguards to help reinforce his security.

July 6 - Afghan Vice President, Haji Qadir, assassinated
Assassins have ambushed and shot dead Haji Abdul Qadir, an Afghan vice-president, in the latest attack on a member of the new central government.

April 8 - Afghan Defense minister, Mohammad Fahim, escapes blast
Four civilians were killed and more than 50 others injured when a bomb exploded as Mr Fahim's convoy visited the eastern city of Jalalabad.