Taliban attacks since last year
July 24, 2017: At least 35 people killed and 40 wounded after car bomb strikes bus carrying government employees in western Kabul.
June 22, 2017: Twenty-nine people are killed when a powerful car bomb strikes a bank in Afghanistan’s Lashkar Gah city as government employees were queuing to withdraw salaries. At least 50 wounded.
June 18, 2017: Dozens of people are killed including five policemen, when as many as five suicide bombers attacked a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan.
June 15, 2017: A suicide bomber kills at least three people and wounded five more in an attack at a mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
June 06, 2017: A suspected bomb outside a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat killed at least seven people and wounded 15.
May 31, 2017: At least 80 people are killed and hundreds wounded when a massive truck bomb rips through Kabul’s diplomatic quarter.
May 3, 2017: A powerful blast targeting a foreign forces convoy near the US embassy and Nato headquarters kills at least eight people and wounds 28 during morning rush hour.
March 8, 2017: Gunmen disguised as doctors storm Afghanistan’s largest military hospital in a six-hour attack. The official death toll is 50 but security sources and survivors say it exceeded 100. March 1, 2017:
Sixteen people are killed in simultaneous Taliban suicide assaults on two security compounds.
February 7, 2017: A suicide bomb rips through a crowd of Supreme Court employees, killing at least 20 and wounding 41. January 10, 2017: Twin blasts near the Afghan parliament kill 38 people and wound 86.
November 21, 2016: A suicide blast targeting Shiites kills at least 27 people and wounds 64 at a Kabul mosque in another sectarian attack.
September 5: A double attack near the defence ministry leaves 41 dead and more than a hundred injured.
July 23, 2016: Twin explosions rip through crowds of Hazaras in Kabul, killing at least 85 people.
June 30, 2016: A double suicide attack by Taliban against police recruits leaves 30 dead.
June 20: Fourteen Nepalese security guards employed by Western embassies killed on outskirts of Kabu.
May 25: Ten people are killed in a suicide attack targeting a minibus carrying court employees in Kabul suburb.
April 19, 2016: A truck bomb followed by a shoot-out leaves 64 people dead and more than 340 injured in central Kabul.
February 27: A suicide bomber blows himself up outside the defence ministry, killing 12 in an attack.
February 1: Twenty police officers are killed and 29 people injured in a suicide attack on a police base in Kabul.
January 20: A suicide bomber rams his car into a minibus belonging to television channel Tolo, killing seven of its employees.