2015 in Afghanistan

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2015
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Afghanistan
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See also: Other events of 2015
List of years in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Afghanistan.

Incumbents[edit]

Events[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

  • February 25 – At least 187 people are killed in avalanches in northeastern Afghanistan [5]
  • February 26 – A Taliban suicide bomb attack on a Turkish government vehicle in Kabul kills at least one person.[6]

March[edit]

  • March 24 - During a visit to the US by Ghani and Abdullah, the US President announced that the US forces will remain at a level of about 9800 troops through 2015 and will not be drawn down to 5000 as had been originally planned.
  • March 25 – The Afghan National Army kills twenty-nine insurgents and injures twenty-one others in a series of operations in Daikundi, Ghazni, and Parwan provinces.[7]

April[edit]

  • April 18 - A major suicide bomb attack in Jalalabad killed more than 30 people and injured over 100 persons. A spokesman for the ISIL said it carried out the attack.[8]

May[edit]

  • Late May - Secret talks were held in the Chinese city of Urumqi between Afghanistan's peace envoy and representatives of the Taliban.[9] The meeting was reportedly facilitated by Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI.[10]

June[edit]

  • 2015 Kabul Parliament attack - the Taliban use a car bomb and assault rifles and RPGs to attack the parliament, killing a woman and injuring 30 civilians.

July[edit]

References[edit]