Events from the year 2008 in Afghanistan. President: Hamid Karzai First Vice President: Ahmad Zia Massoud Second Vice President: Karim Khalili Chief Justice:...

Afghanistan Blizzard was a fierce blizzard that struck Afghanistan on 10 January 2008. Temperatures fell to a low of −30 °C (−22 °F), with up to 180 centimetres...

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered...

The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021. Launched as a direct response to the September 11 attacks, the war began...

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet Union-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989...

opium in Afghanistan than is used for coca cultivation in Latin America. The country has been the world's leading illicit drug producer since 2001. In 2007...

During the War in Afghanistan, according to the Costs of War Project the war killed 176,000 people in Afghanistan: 46,319 civilians, 69,095 military and...

2003 in Afghanistan. A list of notable incidents in Afghanistan during 2003 President: Hamid Karzai Vice President: Hedayat Amin Arsala Vice President:...

Women's rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted by the Taliban. In 2023, the United Nations termed Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country...

up the Afghan people. The former Afghan National Anthem and the Afghan Constitution (before 2021) each mention fourteen of them. The term "Afghan" is synonymous...

British deaths in Afghanistan in 2006, 42 in 2007 and 51 in 2008. The number of British troops wounded in Afghanistan had doubled in a year: 432 servicemen...

Prostitution is illegal in Afghanistan, with punishments ranging from 5 to 15 years of imprisonment. The country is deeply religious and one of the most...

The Afghan conflict (Pashto: دافغانستان جنګونه; Persian: درگیری افغانستان) is a term that refers to the series of events that have kept Afghanistan in a...

The population of Afghanistan is around 43.4 million as of 2024. The nation is composed of a multi-ethnic and multilingual society, reflecting its location...

presence in Afghanistan greatly bolstered the Northern Alliance, which had been locked in a losing fight with the Taliban during the Afghan Civil War...

economy of Afghanistan is listed as the 124th largest in the world in terms of nominal gross domestic product (GDP), and 102nd largest in the world in terms...

Assistance Force (ISAF) operations, alongside Afghan National Army forces, continued against the Taliban through 2008. On April 27, President Karzai escaped...

invasion of Afghanistan following the September 11 attacks from October 7, 2001, to August 31, 2021, as a part of the war on terror. Participants in the initial...

have historically comprised a small community in Afghanistan. The total number of Christians in Afghanistan is currently estimated to be between 15,000...

The following lists events that happened during 2001 in Afghanistan. De facto head of state: Mohammed Omar (until 13 November) President: Burhanuddin Rabbani...

Communications in Afghanistan is under the control of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT). It has rapidly expanded after the...

Canada's role in the Afghanistan War began in late 2001. Canada sent its first element of soldiers secretly in October 2001 from Joint Task Force 2, and...

Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. In February 2020, the Trump administration...

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, later known as the Republic of Afghanistan, was the Afghan state between 1978 and 1992. It was bordered by Pakistan...

Afghanistan has three railway lines in the north of the country. The first is between Mazar-i-Sharif and the border town of Hairatan in Balkh province...

Events in the year 2024 in Afghanistan. Afghan conflict; Islamic State–Taliban conflict; Republican insurgency in Afghanistan January 4 – A spokesman for...

The history of Afghanistan, preceding the establishment of the Emirate of Afghanistan in 1823 is shared with that of neighbouring Iran, Central Asia and...

Emirate of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي امارت, Da Afġānistān Islāmī Amārāt), also referred to as the First Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, was a...

The following lists events that happened during 2002 in Afghanistan. President: Hamid Karzai Vice President: Hedayat Amin Arsala Vice President: Mohammed...

Afghanistan competed at the 2008 Asian Beach Games held in Bali, Indonesia from October 18, 2008, to October 26, 2008. Afghanistan finished with 1 gold...