2024 in Afghanistan
Afghanistan-related events during the year 2024
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Events in the year 2024 in Afghanistan.
Incumbents
Photo | Post | Name | Dates | |||
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Supreme Leader | Hibatullah Akhundzada | 15 August 2021 – present (2021-08-15 – present) | ||||
Acting Prime Minister | Hasan Akhund | 7 September 2021 – present (2021-09-07 – present) | ||||
Chief Justice | Abdul Hakim Haqqani | 15 August 2021 – present (2021-08-15 – present) | ||||
| Deputy Leader |
| 15 August 2021 – present (2021-08-15 – present) | |||
| Acting Deputy Prime Minister |
| 7 September 2021 – present (2021-09-07 – present) |
Events
Ongoing
Afghan conflict; Islamic State–Taliban conflict; Republican insurgency in Afghanistan
January
- January 4 – A spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry of the Taliban announces the arrest of an undetermined number of women for wearing "bad hijab", in the first known crackdown on dress code since their return to power in August 2021.[1]
- January 20 – A chartered Dassault Falcon 10 aircraft flying from Thailand to Russia crashes in Kuf Ab District, Badakhshan Province, killing two of the six people on board.[2][3]
- January 29 – Ten collisions occur on the main highway linking Kabul and Nangarhar Province, killing 17 people and wounding ten more. Separately, fifteen people are killed during four collisions in Laghman Province, near the end of the same highway.[4]
February
- February 19 – A landslide in Nuristan Province buries the village of Nakre in the Tatin Valley and leaves at least 25 people dead.[5]
- February 20 – March 13 – At least 60 people are killed and 23 others are injured due to flooding and adverse weather conditions involving snow and rain nationwide.[6]
March
- March 17 – A bus traveling from Herat to Kabul collides with a motorcycle before slamming into an oil tanker along the Kandahar–Herat Highway in Grishk District, Helmand Province, killing 21 people and injuring 28.[7]
- March 18 – Five women and three children are killed during two Pakistani airstrikes in Khost and Paktika provinces following accusations that attacks in Pakistan were masterminded in Afghanistan, which the Taliban deny. In response, the Taliban opens fire on Pakistani troops at the border.[8]
- March 21 – A suicide bombing inside a bank in Kandahar kills 21 people and injures 50 others. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.[9]
- March 31 – Nine children are killed after a landmine they discovered explodes while playing with it in Giro District, Ghazni Province.[10]
April
- April 12-14 – At least 33 people are killed and 27 others are injured in flash floods caused by heavy rain in 20 provinces nationwide including in Kabul.[11]
- April 17 – The Taliban orders the suspension of the television channels Noor TV and Barya TV for allegedly failing to “consider national and Islamic values”.[12]
- April 20 – One person is killed and three others are injured in a car bombing at a predominantly Hazara neighborhood in Kabul.[13]
- April 29 – Six people are killed after a gunman opens fire inside a Shiite mosque in Guzara District, Herat Province.[14]
May
- May 8 – A motorcycle bombing kills three Taliban security personnel in Faizabad, Badakhshan Province. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.[15]
- May 10 – Between 150 to 300 people are killed during flash floods in Baghlan Province.[16]
- May 15 – A military Mi-17 helicopter crashes in Ghor Province, killing one person.[17]
- May 17:
- Six people, including three Spanish nationals, are killed and seven others are injured in a gun attack in Bamiyan.[18] The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.[19]
- At least 84 people are killed during flash floods in Ghor and Faryab Provinces.[20]
- May 21 – Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban takeover in 2021.[21]
- May 25 – At least 15 people are killed in flash floods in Badakhshan and Baghlan Provinces.[22]
Sports
- January – Afghan cricket team in India in 2023–24[23]
- 25 December 2023 – 2 January 2024: Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2023–24[24]
References
- ^ "Taliban arrest women for 'bad hijab' in the first dress code crackdown since their return to power". AP News. 2024-01-04. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
- ^ "Russian flight carrying six disappears over Afghanistan, crash reported". Reuters. 21 January 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "A Russian private jet carrying 6 people is believed to have crashed in Afghanistan, officials say". Associated Press. 21 January 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "33 people have been killed in separate traffic crashes in eastern Afghanistan". AP News. 2024-01-28. Retrieved 2024-01-29.
- ^ "Afghanistan landslide leaves 25 dead". DW. 2024-02-19. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "In Afghanistan, more than 60 people killed by weeks of heavy rain and snow". Le Monde. 2024-03-13. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "At least 21 dead after bus collides with tanker in southern Afghanistan". Al Jazeera. March 17, 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "Taliban Says Several Killed In Pakistani Strikes Inside Afghanistan". RFE/RL. March 18, 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
- ^ "Afghanistan: IS claims responsibility for suicide bomb at Kandahar bank". BBC. March 22, 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
- ^ "An old land mine found by children near an Afghanistan village explodes, killing 9". Associated Press. April 1, 2024. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
- ^ "Dozens killed in Afghanistan as heavy rains set off flash floods". Al Jazeera. April 14, 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-14.
- ^ "The Taliban suspend two TV stations in Afghanistan for neglecting Islamic and national values". Associated Press. April 17, 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "A sticky bomb explodes in Kabul, killing 1 and wounding 3 in a mostly Shiite Hazara neighbourhood". Associated Press. April 21, 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
- ^ "Gunman kills at least six in attack on mosque in Afghanistan's Herat". Al Jazeera. April 30, 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-30.
- ^ "Blast in north Afghanistan kills three Taliban security personnel". Reuters. May 8, 2024.
- ^ "More than 150 killed in Afghanistan flash floods, government says". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ "An Afghan military helicopter crash in western Afghanistan kills at least 1 person, the Taliban say". Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
- ^ "3 Spaniards were among 6 people killed when gunmen opened fire in central Afghanistan, officials say". Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-05-18.
- ^ "The Islamic State claims attack in Afghanistan that killed 3 Spanish citizens and 3 Afghans". Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-05-20.
- ^ "Heavy rains set off flash floods in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 84 people". Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ^ "Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Afghanistan nearly 3 years after the Taliban captured Kabul". Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-05-22.
- ^ "Renewed flash floods due to unusually heavy seasonal rains kill at least 15 people in Afghanistan". Associated Press. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
- ^ "BCCI announces fixtures for International Home Season 2023-24". www.bcci.tv. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
- ^ "AfghanAtalan to Tour UAE for a three-match T20I Series late this month". cricket.af. Retrieved 2023-12-12.
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