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65.499</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date</th><td class="infobox-data">11 March 2012; 12 years ago (2012-03-11) 03:00 <a href="/wiki/Time_in_Afghanistan" title="Time in Afghanistan">AFT</a> (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B04:30" title="UTC+04:30">UTC+04:30</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Attack type</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Triple <a href="/wiki/Home_invasion" title="Home invasion">home invasion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spree_killing" class="mw-redirect" title="Spree killing">spree killing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mass_murder" title="Mass murder">mass murder</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Weapons</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/M4_carbine" title="M4 carbine">M4 carbine</a> with <a href="/wiki/M203" class="mw-redirect" title="M203">M203</a> grenade launcher and an <a href="/wiki/M9_pistol" class="mw-redirect" title="M9 pistol">M9 pistol</a>. Some victims were found stabbed in addition to being shot.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Deaths</th><td class="infobox-data">16</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Injured</th><td class="infobox-data">6</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Victims</th><td class="infobox-data">Afghan civilians</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Perpetrator</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bales" title="Robert Bales">Robert Bales</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The Kandahar massacre, also called the Panjwai massacre,<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Mass_murder" title="Mass murder">mass murder</a> that occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Staff_Sergeant" class="mw-redirect" title="Staff Sergeant">Staff Sergeant</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bales" title="Robert Bales">Robert Bales</a> murdered 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the <a href="/wiki/Panjwayi_District" title="Panjwayi District">Panjwayi District</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_Province" title="Kandahar Province">Kandahar Province</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. Nine of his victims were children, and 11 of the dead were from the same family. Some of the corpses were partially burned. Bales was taken into custody later that morning when he told authorities, "I did it". The U.S. and <a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">International Security Assistance Force</a> (ISAF) authorities apologized for the deaths. Afghan authorities condemned the act, describing it as "intentional murder". The <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Afghanistan">National Assembly of Afghanistan</a> passed a resolution demanding a <a href="/wiki/Public_trial" title="Public trial">public trial</a> in Afghanistan. Still, then-<a href="/wiki/U.S._Secretary_of_Defense" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Secretary of Defense">U.S. Secretary of Defense</a> <a href="/wiki/Leon_Panetta" title="Leon Panetta">Leon Panetta</a> said the soldier would be tried under <a href="/wiki/U.S._military_law" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. military law">U.S. military law</a>. Bales pleaded guilty on 5 June 2013 to 16 counts of <a href="/wiki/Premeditated_murder" class="mw-redirect" title="Premeditated murder">premeditated murder</a> in exchange for the prosecution not seeking a death sentence. At the time of the plea, he said he did not know why he committed the murders. On 23 August 2013, Bales was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.<a href="#cite_note-Healy-2">[2]</a> United States authorities concluded that the killings were the act of a single individual. On 15 March 2012, an Afghan parliamentary probe team consisting of several members of the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Afghanistan">National Assembly of Afghanistan</a> had speculated that up to 20 U.S. soldiers were involved in the killings. The team later said they could not confirm claims that multiple soldiers participated in the massacre. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Surge"_in_southern_Afghanistan">"Surge" in southern Afghanistan</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: "Surge" in southern Afghanistan">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Patrolling_the_Panjwayi_district_near_Kandahar_-b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Patrolling_the_Panjwayi_district_near_Kandahar_-b.jpg/220px-Patrolling_the_Panjwayi_district_near_Kandahar_-b.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Patrolling_the_Panjwayi_district_near_Kandahar_-b.jpg/330px-Patrolling_the_Panjwayi_district_near_Kandahar_-b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Patrolling_the_Panjwayi_district_near_Kandahar_-b.jpg/440px-Patrolling_the_Panjwayi_district_near_Kandahar_-b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1700" data-file-height="1133" /></a><figcaption>U.S. soldiers patrolling the Panjwayi district near Kandahar in 2004</figcaption></figure> Panjwai is the birthplace of the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> movement and has traditionally been a stronghold of the Taliban.<a href="#cite_note-csm-3">[3]</a> It has been an area of heavy fighting and was the focus of a <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)#2010:_American–British_offensive_and_Afghan_peace_initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">military surge</a> in 2010,<a href="#cite_note-NYT-4">[4]</a> which brought a more than two-fold increase in airstrikes,<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> night raids into Afghan homes,<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> insurgent casualties,<a href="#cite_note-schmitt-7">[7]</a> and a six-fold increase in special forces operations throughout Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-miller-8">[8]</a> Fighting in Panjwai and adjacent <a href="/wiki/Zhari_District" title="Zhari District">Zhari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arghandab_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Arghandab District">Arghandab</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kandahar_District" title="Kandahar District">Kandahar</a> districts was particularly intense. The conflict between the civilian population and U.S. forces was exacerbated<a href="#cite_note-home-9">[9]</a> by the wholesale destruction of <a href="/wiki/Khosrow_Sofla" title="Khosrow Sofla">some villages</a> by U.S. forces,<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> mass arrests,<a href="#cite_note-porter-11">[11]</a> <a href="/wiki/Maywand_District_murders" title="Maywand District murders">murder</a> of civilians by rogue units,<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> and high casualties from <a href="/wiki/Improvised_explosive_device" title="Improvised explosive device">improvised explosive devices</a> (IEDs).<a href="#cite_note-norland-13">[13]</a> One of the families targeted in the Kandahar massacre returned to the area in 2011 after being displaced by the surge. Fearing the Taliban but encouraged by the U.S. government, the Army, and the Afghan government, they settled near the U.S. military base because they thought it would be a safe place to live.<a href="#cite_note-home-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Approximately three weeks before the incidents, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Afghanistan–United States relations">Afghan–U.S. relations</a> were strained by an incident where <a href="/wiki/2012_Afghanistan_Quran_burning_protests" title="2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests">copies of the Quran were burnt</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Bagram_Air_Base" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagram Air Base">Bagram Air Base</a>. A couple of months before the shootings, U.S. Marines were <a href="/wiki/Video_of_U.S._Marines_urinating_on_Taliban_fighters" title="Video of U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban fighters">videorecorded urinating</a> on dead Taliban fighters. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Allegations_of_issues_at_Fort_Lewis">Allegations of issues at Fort Lewis</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Allegations of issues at Fort Lewis">edit</a>]</div> The shooter, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bales" title="Robert Bales">Robert Bales</a>, was based at <a href="/wiki/Joint_Base_Lewis-McChord" class="mw-redirect" title="Joint Base Lewis-McChord">Joint Base Lewis-McChord</a> (JBLM). The primary medical treatment facility at the base, <a href="/wiki/Madigan_Army_Medical_Center" title="Madigan Army Medical Center">Madigan Army Medical Center</a>, has come under investigation for downgrading diagnoses of soldiers with <a href="/wiki/PTSD" class="mw-redirect" title="PTSD">PTSD</a> to lesser ailments. Military support groups around the base have alleged that base commanders did not give returning troops sufficient time to recover before sending them on further deployments and that the base's medical unit was understaffed and overwhelmed by the numbers of returning veterans with deployment-related physical and psychological trauma.<a href="#cite_note-clues-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-finn-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Soldiers from the base have been linked to other atrocities and crimes. The 2010 <a href="/wiki/Maywand_District_murders" title="Maywand District murders">Maywand District murders</a> involved JBLM-based soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-clues-15">[15]</a> Also in 2010, a recently discharged <a href="/wiki/AWOL" class="mw-redirect" title="AWOL">AWOL</a> soldier from JBLM shot a police officer in <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a>.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> In April 2011, a JBLM soldier killed his wife and 5-year-old son before killing himself.<a href="#cite_note-finn-16">[16]</a> In January 2012, a JBLM soldier murdered a <a href="/wiki/Mount_Rainier_National_Park" title="Mount Rainier National Park">Mount Rainier National Park</a> ranger.<a href="#cite_note-clues-15">[15]</a> In two separate incidents, unrelated JBLM soldiers have been charged with <a href="/wiki/Waterboarding" title="Waterboarding">waterboarding</a> their children.<a href="#cite_note-finn-16">[16]</a> Jorge Gonzalez, executive director of a veterans resource center near Fort Lewis, said that the Kandahar killings offer more proof that the base was dysfunctional: "This was not a rogue soldier. JBLM is a rogue base, with a severe leadership problem", he said in a statement.<a href="#cite_note-katu-19">[19]</a> Base officials responded, saying that the crimes committed by its soldiers were isolated events which do not "reflect on the work and dedication of all service members."<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> <a href="/wiki/Robert_H._Scales" title="Robert H. Scales">Robert H. Scales</a>, a retired U.S. Army major general and former commandant of the Army War College, suggested that the major factor in the shootings was the overuse of infantry personnel in the last ten years for close combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="8_March_roadside_bombing">8 March roadside bombing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 8 March roadside bombing">edit</a>]</div> Residents of Mokhoyan, a village about 500 metres east of Camp Belamby, stated that a bomb had exploded in their vicinity on 8 March, destroying an armored vehicle and wounding several U.S. soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-retaliation-22">[22]</a> They recounted that U.S. soldiers afterwards lined many of the male villagers against a wall, threatening to "get revenge for this incident by killing at least 20 of your people", and threatening that "you and your children will pay for this".<a href="#cite_note-retaliation-22">[22]</a> One Mokhoyan resident told The Associated Press "It looked like they were going to shoot us, and I was very afraid."<a href="#cite_note-retaliation-22">[22]</a> U.S. officials from <a href="/wiki/The_Pentagon" title="The Pentagon">The Pentagon</a> declared that they had "no evidence" that villagers had been lined up against a wall and threatened in Mokhoyan.<a href="#cite_note-nbcpent-23">[23]</a> U.S. officials refused to confirm or deny that U.S. soldiers were wounded outside the village on 8 March.<a href="#cite_note-retaliation-22">[22]</a> Bales' lawyer, <a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Browne" title="John Henry Browne">John Henry Browne</a>, later stated that his client was upset because a fellow soldier had lost a leg in an explosion on 9 March.<a href="#cite_note-retaliation-22">[22]</a> It is unclear whether the bombing cited by Browne was the same as the one described by the villagers.<a href="#cite_note-retaliation-22">[22]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Incident">Incident</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Incident">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Killings">Killings</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Killings">edit</a>]</div> <table style="float:right; margin:1em; width:25em; border:1px solid #a0a0a0; padding:10px; background:#f5f5f5; text-align:left; font-size:small;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center; font-size:medium;"> <td>Casualties<a href="#cite_note-names-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Killed <ul><li>Mohamed Dawood (son of Abdullah)</li> <li>Khudaydad (son of Mohamed Juma)</li> <li>Nazar Mohamed</li> <li>Payendo</li> <li>Robeena</li> <li>Shatarina (daughter of Sultan Mohamed)</li> <li>Zahra (daughter of Abdul Hamid)</li> <li>Nazia (daughter of Dost Mohamed)</li> <li>Masooma (daughter of Mohamed Wazir)</li> <li>Farida (daughter of Mohamed Wazir)</li> <li>Palwasha (daughter of Mohamed Wazir)</li> <li>Nabia (daughter of Mohamed Wazir)</li> <li>Esmatullah, age 16 (son of Mohamed Wazir)</li> <li>Faizullah, age 9 (son of Mohamed Wazir)</li> <li>Essa Mohamed (son of Mohamed Hussain)</li> <li>Akhtar Mohamed (son of Murrad Ali)</li></ul> Wounded <ul><li>Haji Mohamed Naim (son of Haji Sakhawat)</li> <li>Mohamed Sediq (son of Mohamed Naim)</li> <li>Parween</li> <li>Rafiullah</li> <li>Zardana</li> <li>Zulheja</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> According to official reports, Bales left combat outpost Camp Belamby at 3:00 a.m. local time wearing <a href="/wiki/Night_vision_goggles" class="mw-redirect" title="Night vision goggles">night vision goggles</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nj-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> Bales was wearing traditional Afghan clothing over his <a href="/wiki/Army_Combat_Uniform" title="Army Combat Uniform">ACU</a>.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-video-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-USAToday-32">[32]</a> He wore no body armor.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> According to government officials with knowledge of the investigation, the killings were carried out in two phases, with Bales returning to base in between. An Afghan guard reported a soldier returning to base at 1:30 am, and another guard reported a soldier leaving at 2:30 am.<a href="#cite_note-ap-2phase-34">[34]</a> Bales is believed to have first gone to Alkozai, about <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>1⁄2 mile (0.80 km) north of Camp Belambay, then to Najiban (called <a href="/wiki/Balandi" title="Balandi">Balandi</a> in earlier reports), located <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027" />1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) south of the base.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> Four people were killed and six wounded in Alkozai, and twelve people were killed in Najiban. U.S. sentries at the base heard gunshots in Alkozai but did not take action besides attempting to view Alkozai from their post inside the base.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> Until 22 March, U.S. authorities recognized sixteen people killed, including nine children, four men, and three women.<a href="#cite_note-USAToday-32">[32]</a> On 22 March that number was revised to seventeen,<a href="#cite_note-usatoday2-37">[37]</a> but later reduced back to sixteen.<a href="#cite_note-dropped-38">[38]</a> It was initially reported that five others were injured, and that number was eventually increased to six.<a href="#cite_note-USAToday-32">[32]</a> Four members of the same family were killed in Alkozai.<a href="#cite_note-BBC-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-Globe-40">[40]</a> According to a 16-year-old boy who was shot in the leg, Bales woke up his family members before shooting them.<a href="#cite_note-yahooafp-41">[41]</a> Another witness said she saw the man drag a woman out of her house and repeatedly hit her head against a wall.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> The first victim in Najiban appears to have been Mohammad Dawood. According to Dawood's brother, Bales shot Dawood in the head but spared Dawood's wife and six children after the wife screamed at him.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Eleven members of Abdul Samad's family were killed in a house in Najiban village, including his wife, four girls between the ages of two and six, four boys between eight and twelve, and two other relatives.<a href="#cite_note-home-9">[9]</a> According to a witness, "he dragged the boys by their hair and shot them in the mouth".<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> At least three of the child victims were killed by a single shot to the head of each.<a href="#cite_note-BBC-39">[39]</a> Their bodies were then set on fire. Another civilian, Mohammad Dawoud, age 55, was then killed in another village house.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> Witnesses reported that Bales was wearing a headlamp and/or a spotlight attached to his weapon.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> Bales burned some of the victims' bodies. Witnesses said the eleven corpses from one family were shot in the head, stabbed, gathered into one room, and set on fire.<a href="#cite_note-home-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-USAToday-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> A pile of ashes was found on the floor of one victims' house; at least one child's body was found partially charred.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> A reporter for <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> inspected the children's bodies taken to a nearby American military base and reported seeing burns on some of the legs and heads.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-4">[4]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surrender_and_confession">Surrender and confession</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Surrender and confession">edit</a>]</div> Following the events at Alkozai and Balandi, Bales handed himself over into <a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">ISAF</a> custody.<a href="#cite_note-BBC-39">[39]</a> Afghan forces spotted him leaving his outpost before the killings and U.S. commanders on base assembled their troops for a head count when it was discovered that a soldier was missing. A patrol was dispatched to find the missing soldier but did not find him before he returned to base after the killings. He was reportedly taken into custody without incident. No military operations were being conducted in the area at the time of the shootings.<a href="#cite_note-CNN-50">[50]</a> The surveillance video from the base reportedly shows "the soldier walking up to his base covered in a traditional Afghan shawl. The soldier removes the shawl and lays his weapon on the ground, then raises his arms in surrender."<a href="#cite_note-video-29">[29]</a> The video has not been released to the public. U.S. investigators suspect Bales may have departed the base before midnight, committed the murders in Alkozai, then returned to the base around 1:30 a.m. Bales may have then departed the base at 2:30 a.m. and committed the murders in Najiban. Apparently, the second departure caused the alert and the commencement of the patrol to locate the missing soldier.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> According to U.S. defense officials, upon his return to the base, Bales said: "I did it" and then told individuals what happened.<a href="#cite_note-ididit-52">[52]</a> Later he retained a lawyer and refused to speak further with investigators.<a href="#cite_note-ididit-52">[52]</a> The U.S. flew Bales out of Afghanistan to <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a> on 14 March 2012,<a href="#cite_note-defense-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-cnnflown-54">[54]</a> then to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Disciplinary_Barracks" title="United States Disciplinary Barracks">United States Disciplinary Barracks</a> at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Leavenworth" title="Fort Leavenworth">Fort Leavenworth</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a> on 16 March.<a href="#cite_note-yahoo1-55">[55]</a> A Pentagon spokesman said the move was made because of a "legal recommendation".<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Number_of_assailants">Number of assailants</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Number of assailants">edit</a>]</div> According to U.S. authorities, a single soldier – Staff Sergeant <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bales" title="Robert Bales">Robert Bales</a> – conducted the attack.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-4">[4]</a> The U.S. military showed Afghan authorities the footage from the surveillance video at the base as proof that there was only one perpetrator of the shootings.<a href="#cite_note-video-29">[29]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a>, some neighbors and relatives of the dead saw a group of U.S. soldiers arrive at their village at about 2 a.m., enter homes and open fire.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-57">[57]</a> "They were all drunk and shooting all over the place," said neighbor Agha Lala.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-57">[57]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>, one of the attack's survivors and "at least five other villagers" described seeing several soldiers, while some other Afghan residents described seeing only one gunman.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-4">[4]</a> Some elected officials said that they believed the attack was planned, claiming that one soldier could not have carried out such an act without help.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-nj-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> On 15 March 2012, an Afghan parliamentary probe team made up of several members of the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Afghanistan">National Assembly of Afghanistan</a> announced that up to 20 American soldiers were involved in the killings,<a href="#cite_note-PAN-59">[59]</a> with support from two helicopters.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> They had spent two days in the province on-site, interviewing the survivors and collecting evidence. One of the probe team members, Hamizai Lali, said: "We closely examined the site of the incident, talked to the families who lost their beloved ones, the injured people and tribal elders... The villages are one and a half kilometer from the U.S. military base. We are convinced that one soldier cannot kill so many people in two villages within one hour... [the victims] have been killed by the two groups."<a href="#cite_note-PAN-59">[59]</a> Lali asked the Afghan government, the United Nations, and the international community to ensure the perpetrators were punished in Afghanistan. While visiting one of the affected villages, Hamid Karzai pointed to one of the villagers and said: "In his family, in four rooms people were killed – children and women were killed – and then they were all brought together in one room and then set on fire. That, one man cannot do."<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> However, the team later said they could not confirm that multiple soldiers took part in the killings.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Financial_payments_to_victims'_families">Financial payments to victims' families</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Financial payments to victims' families">edit</a>]</div> On 25 March 2012, at the office of the governor of Kandahar province, the United States gave the equivalent of <a href="/wiki/US$" class="mw-redirect" title="US$">US$</a>860,000 to the victims' families, allocated as $50,000 for each person killed and $10,000 for each person injured. The official who disbursed payments to the families said the money was not compensation but the U.S. government's offering to help the victims and their families.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> A member of the Kandahar provincial council described the payments as assistance, but not as the kind of legal compensation that would absolve the accused.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Robert_Bales">Robert Bales</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Robert Bales">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bales" title="Robert Bales">Robert Bales</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_Bales.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Robert_Bales.jpg/220px-Robert_Bales.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Robert_Bales.jpg/330px-Robert_Bales.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Robert_Bales.jpg/440px-Robert_Bales.jpg 2x" data-file-width="656" data-file-height="490" /></a><figcaption>Staff Sgt. <a href="/wiki/Robert_Bales" title="Robert Bales">Robert Bales</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Irwin_National_Training_Center" title="Fort Irwin National Training Center">Fort Irwin National Training Center</a> in August 2011.</figcaption></figure> The Army concluded that Robert Bales, a 38-year-old <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Staff_sergeant" title="Staff sergeant">staff sergeant</a> stationed at Camp Belambay, was the only person responsible for the shootings.<a href="#cite_note-defense-53">[53]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" title="United States Secretary of Defense">Defense Secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/Leon_Panetta" title="Leon Panetta">Leon Panetta</a>, immediately after being captured, Bales acknowledged the killings and "told individuals what happened".<a href="#cite_note-ididit-52">[52]</a> He then asked for an attorney and refused to speak with investigators about his motivations.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-lawyer-66">[66]</a> According to officials, Bales may have been having <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">marital</a> problems,<a href="#cite_note-ididit-52">[52]</a> and the investigation of the shootings is looking into the possibility that an e-mail about marriage problems might have provoked Bales.<a href="#cite_note-lawyer-66">[66]</a> His wife wrote on her blog about her disappointment after he was passed over for a promotion to <a href="/wiki/Sergeant_First_Class" class="mw-redirect" title="Sergeant First Class">Sergeant First Class (E-7)</a>.<a href="#cite_note-blog-67">[67]</a> The family was also struggling with finances, and three days before the shootings Bales' wife put their home up for sale, as they had fallen behind with mortgage payments.<a href="#cite_note-mortgage-68">[68]</a> On 23 March 2012, the U.S. government charged Bales with 17 counts of murder, six counts of attempted murder, and six counts of assault.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> On 24 March 2012, American investigators said they believe Bales split the killings in the villages of Balandi and Alkozai into two attacks, returning to Camp Belamby after the first attack before slipping out again an hour later.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> No other U.S. military personnel were disciplined for having any role in the incident.<a href="#cite_note-Atlantic20120419-71">[71]</a> On 22 August 2013, Bales pleaded guilty at his General Court-martial, apologized for his killing spree, and described the massacre as an "act of cowardice." The plea spared Bales from the death penalty.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a><a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> On 23 August 2013, Bales was sentenced to life in prison without parole by the court.<a href="#cite_note-Healy-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a><a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> He was also demoted to Private (E-1), the lowest possible rank, dishonorably discharged, and ordered to forfeit all pay and allowances.<a href="#cite_note-seattletimes-78">[78]</a> A commanding general overseeing the court-martial has the option of reducing the sentence to life with the possibility of parole.<a href="#cite_note-APUSAToday20130823-79">[79]</a> Afghan villagers and the families of Bales' victims were upset by the decision, saying he deserved death.<a href="#cite_note-APUSAToday20130823-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-PostGaz-80">[80]</a> After several months of interviews in prison in 2015, Bales revealed in depth his recollection of his actions step by step the night of the murders and why he believed he acted the way he did to reporter Brendan Vaughan in an article published in GQ magazine on 21 October 2015.<a href="#cite_note-GQ20151021-81">[81]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reactions">Reactions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Reactions">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_talks_on_the_phone_with_Afghanistan_President_Hamid_Karzai_11_March_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Barack_Obama_talks_on_the_phone_with_Afghanistan_President_Hamid_Karzai_11_March_2012.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama_talks_on_the_phone_with_Afghanistan_President_Hamid_Karzai_11_March_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Barack_Obama_talks_on_the_phone_with_Afghanistan_President_Hamid_Karzai_11_March_2012.jpg/330px-Barack_Obama_talks_on_the_phone_with_Afghanistan_President_Hamid_Karzai_11_March_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Barack_Obama_talks_on_the_phone_with_Afghanistan_President_Hamid_Karzai_11_March_2012.jpg/440px-Barack_Obama_talks_on_the_phone_with_Afghanistan_President_Hamid_Karzai_11_March_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3879" data-file-height="2561" /></a><figcaption>United States President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> speaks by phone to Afghanistan President <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> following the killings.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reaction_from_family_members_and_Afghan_society">Reaction from family members and Afghan society</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Reaction from family members and Afghan society">edit</a>]</div> A woman who lost four family members in the incident said, "We don't know why this foreign soldier came and killed our innocent family members. Either he was drunk or he enjoyed killing civilians."<a href="#cite_note-NBC17-82">[82]</a> Abdul Samad, a 60-year-old farmer who lost eleven family members, eight of whom were children, spoke about the incident: "I don't know why they killed them. Our government told us to come back to the village, and then they let the Americans kill us."<a href="#cite_note-home-9">[9]</a> One grieving mother, holding a dead baby in her arms, said, "They killed a child, was this child the Taliban? Believe me, I haven't seen a two-year-old member of the Taliban yet."<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> "I don't want any compensation. I don't want money, I don't want a trip to Mecca, I don't want a house. I want nothing. But what I absolutely want is the punishment of the Americans. This is my demand, my demand, my demand and my demand," said one villager whose brother was killed.<a href="#cite_note-msnbcend-84">[84]</a> More than 300 Panjwai locals gathered around the military base to protest the killings.<a href="#cite_note-NYT_Panjwai-85">[85]</a> Some brought burned blankets to represent those killed.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-4">[4]</a> In one house, an elderly woman screamed: "May God kill the only son of Karzai, so he feels what we feel."<a href="#cite_note-yahooafp-41">[41]</a> On 13 March, hundreds of university students protested in Afghanistan's eastern city of <a href="/wiki/Jalalabad" title="Jalalabad">Jalalabad</a>,<a href="#cite_note-tel-86">[86]</a> shouting "Death to America – Death to Obama" and burning effigies of the U.S. president and a <a href="/wiki/Christian_cross" title="Christian cross">Christian cross</a>.<a href="#cite_note-tel-86">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> On 15 March about 2,000 people took part in another protest, in the southern province of Zabul.<a href="#cite_note-ourboy-88">[88]</a> After the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, some Afghans said this and other massacres increased support for the Taliban. Haji Muhammad Wazir, whose family was massacred by Bales, said he gave the Taliban financial and other support as a result.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reaction_from_Afghan_authorities">Reaction from Afghan authorities</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Reaction from Afghan authorities">edit</a>]</div> The President of Afghanistan, <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a>, called the incident "intentional murder" and stated, "this [was] an assassination, an intentional killing of innocent civilians and cannot be forgiven."<a href="#cite_note-BBC-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-Globe-40">[40]</a> He said the United States must now pull back its troops from village areas and allow Afghan security forces to take the lead to reduce civilian deaths.<a href="#cite_note-ourboy-88">[88]</a> On 16 March, Karzai said the U.S. was not fully cooperating with a probe into the killings.<a href="#cite_note-bbcbales-90">[90]</a> He also said the problem of civilian casualties at the hands of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> forces "has been going on for too long ... It is by all means the end of the rope here".<a href="#cite_note-msnbcend-84">[84]</a> A spokesperson for the <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Interior_Ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan Interior Ministry">Afghan Interior Ministry</a> condemned the act "in the strongest possible terms."<a href="#cite_note-Globe-40">[40]</a> Afghan politicians wanted Bales to face an Afghan court.<a href="#cite_note-bostonglobe1-91">[91]</a> The <a href="/wiki/House_of_the_People_(Afghanistan)" title="House of the People (Afghanistan)">National Assembly of Afghanistan</a> insisted that the U.S. soldier be put on <a href="/wiki/Public_trial" title="Public trial">public trial</a> in Afghanistan: "We seriously demand and expect that the government of the United States punish the culprits and try them in a public trial before the people of Afghanistan."<a href="#cite_note-parl-92">[92]</a> It also condemned the killings as "brutal and inhuman" and declared that "people are running out of patience over the ignorance of foreign forces."<a href="#cite_note-parl-92">[92]</a> Abdul Rahim Ayobi, a member of parliament from Kandahar, said the shooting "gives us the message that now the American soldiers are out of the control of their generals."<a href="#cite_note-usat-93">[93]</a> Kamal Safai, a member from <a href="/wiki/Kunduz_Province" title="Kunduz Province">Kunduz</a>, said that while it was the act of a single man, "the public reaction will blame the government of America, not the soldier."<a href="#cite_note-usat-93">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reaction_from_U.S._and_NATO">Reaction from U.S. and NATO</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Reaction from U.S. and NATO">edit</a>]</div> American and ISAF forces apologized and promised a full investigation, with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta stating that the soldier "will be brought to justice and be held accountable" and that the death penalty "could be a consideration."<a href="#cite_note-bostonglobe1-91">[91]</a> U.S. president <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> called the incident "absolutely tragic and heartbreaking" but noted that he was "proud generally" of what U.S. troops have accomplished in Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-Fox-94">[94]</a> Obama said the incident did not represent the "exceptional character" of the American military and the respect that the United States had for the people of Afghanistan.<a href="#cite_note-NYT-4">[4]</a> On 13 March, he said, "the United States takes this as seriously as if it were our own citizens and our own children who were murdered. We're heartbroken over the loss of innocent life. The killing of innocent civilians is outrageous and it's unacceptable."<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> In response to a reporter asking whether the killings could be likened to the 1968 <a href="/wiki/My_Lai_massacre" title="My Lai massacre">My Lai massacre</a> of civilians by U.S. forces in <a href="/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a>, Obama replied, "It's not comparable. It appeared you had a lone gunman who acted on his own."<a href="#cite_note-MyLai-question-96">[96]</a> General <a href="/wiki/John_R._Allen" title="John R. Allen">John R. Allen</a>, commander of the ISAF, issued an apology as well.<a href="#cite_note-ABC-97">[97]</a> <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Bradshaw_(British_Army_officer)" title="Adrian Bradshaw (British Army officer)">Adrian Bradshaw</a>, the deputy commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, apologized "I wish to convey my profound regrets and dismay... I cannot explain the motivation behind such callous acts, but they were in no way part of authorized ISAF military activity."<a href="#cite_note-USAToday-32">[32]</a> A "rapid and thorough" inquiry was promised.<a href="#cite_note-BBC-39">[39]</a> U.S. officials said the killings would not affect their strategies in the area.<a href="#cite_note-CNN-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Response_from_the_Taliban">Response from the Taliban</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Response from the Taliban">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> said in a statement on its website that "sick-minded American savages committed the blood-soaked and inhumane crime."<a href="#cite_note-usat-93">[93]</a> The insurgent group promised the families of the victims that it would take revenge "for every single martyr".<a href="#cite_note-usat-93">[93]</a> The Taliban also accused Afghan security officials of being complicit in the attack.<a href="#cite_note-BBC-39">[39]</a> The insurgent group called off peace talks in the wake of the deadly rampage.<a href="#cite_note-ourboy-88">[88]</a> On 13 March, the Taliban launched an attack on an Afghan government delegation visiting the site of the killings, killing one government soldier and injuring three.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kandahar_massacre&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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military operations in the war in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Operations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NATO_logistics_during_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="NATO logistics during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Logistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impact_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Impact of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">International Security Assistance Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan" title="Drone strikes in Pakistan">Drone strikes in Pakistan</a></li> <li>Withdrawal of U.S. troops <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2011%E2%80%932016)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)">2011–2016</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932006)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2001–2006)">2001–2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2007)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2007)">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2008)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2008)">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2009)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2009)">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2011)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2011)">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2012)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2012)">2012</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="Coalition casualties in Afghanistan">Coalition</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan" title="United States military casualties in the War in Afghanistan">United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan_since_2001" title="British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since 2001">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan">Canadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Armed_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="German Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan">German</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_Defence_Force_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="List of Australian Defence Force casualties in Afghanistan">Australian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Norwegian_Armed_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="List of Norwegian Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan">Norwegian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan" title="List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan">Aviation incidents</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Timeline of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Timeline</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2001_in_Afghanistan" title="2001 in Afghanistan">2001</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Kandahar_(2001)" title="Bombing of Kandahar (2001)">Bombing of Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Mazar-i-Sharif" title="Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif">Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kunduz" title="Siege of Kunduz">Siege of Kunduz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_uprising_in_Herat" title="2001 uprising in Herat">Herat uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2001)" title="Fall of Kabul (2001)">Fall of Kabul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarinkot" title="Battle of Tarinkot">Battle of Tarinkot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kandahar" title="Fall of Kandahar">Fall of Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Qala-i-Jangi" title="Battle of Qala-i-Jangi">Battle of Qala-i-Jangi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dasht-i-Leili_massacre" title="Dasht-i-Leili massacre">Dasht-i-Leili massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shawali_Kowt" title="Battle of Shawali Kowt">Battle of Shawali Kowt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sayyd_Alma_Kalay" title="Battle of Sayyd Alma Kalay">Battle of Sayyd Alma Kalay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora" title="Battle of Tora Bora">Battle of Tora Bora</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">2002 –2006</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2002_in_Afghanistan" title="2002 in Afghanistan">2002</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp">Guantanamo Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uruzgan_wedding_bombing" title="Uruzgan wedding bombing">Uruzgan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Kabul_bombing" title="2002 Kabul bombing">Kabul bombing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_in_Afghanistan" title="2003 in Afghanistan">2003</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2003_attack_on_the_Embassy_of_Pakistan_in_Kabul" title="2003 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul">Pakistan Embassy in Kabul attack</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_in_Afghanistan" title="2004 in Afghanistan">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_in_Afghanistan" title="2005 in Afghanistan">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_in_Afghanistan" title="2006 in Afghanistan">2006</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Taliban_offensive" title="2006 Taliban offensive">Taliban offensive</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2007_in_Afghanistan" title="2007 in Afghanistan">2007</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_Shinwar_shooting" title="2007 Shinwar shooting">Shinwar shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyderabad_airstrike" title="Hyderabad airstrike">Hyderabad airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nangar_Khel_incident" title="Nangar Khel incident">Nangar Khel incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Helmand_Province_airstrikes" title="2007 Helmand Province airstrikes">Helmand airstrikes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Baghlan_sugar_factory_bombing" title="2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing">Baghlan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_South_Korean_hostage_crisis_in_Afghanistan" title="2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan">South Korean hostage crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2008_in_Afghanistan" title="2008 in Afghanistan">2008</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haska_Meyna_wedding_party_airstrike" title="Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike">Haska Meyna airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azizabad_airstrike" title="Azizabad airstrike">Azizabad airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airstrike" title="Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike">Wech Bagtu airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_bombing_of_Indian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="2008 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul">Kabul Indian embassy bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_attack" title="2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack">Kabul S Hotel attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kidnapping_of_David_Rohde" title="Kidnapping of David Rohde">Kidnapping of David Rohde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarposa_prison_attack_of_2008" title="Sarposa prison attack of 2008">Sarposa attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Kandahar_bombing" title="2008 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spin_Boldak_bombing" title="Spin Boldak bombing">Spin Boldak bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2009_in_Afghanistan" title="2009 in Afghanistan">2009</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Granai_airstrike" title="Granai airstrike">Granai airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Kunduz_airstrike" title="2009 Kunduz airstrike">Kunduz airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_raid_on_Narang" title="Night raid on Narang">Narang raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2009_raids_on_Kabul" title="February 2009 raids on Kabul">February Kabul raids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_bombing_of_Indian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="2009 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul">Kabul Indian embassy bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Kandahar_bombing" title="2009 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_NATO_Afghanistan_headquarters_bombing" title="2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing">NATO HQ bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack" title="Camp Chapman attack">Camp Chapman attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sabzak" title="Battle of Sabzak">Battle of Sabzak</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2010_in_Afghanistan" title="2010 in Afghanistan">2010</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_2010_Kabul_attack" title="January 2010 Kabul attack">January Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Khataba" title="Raid on Khataba">Raid on Khataba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2010_Kabul_attack" title="February 2010 Kabul attack">February Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uruzgan_helicopter_attack" title="Uruzgan helicopter attack">Uruzgan attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Sangin_airstrike" title="2010 Sangin airstrike">Sangin airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maywand_District_murders" title="Maywand District murders">Maywand murders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarok_Kolache" title="Tarok Kolache">Tarok Kolache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadahan_wedding_bombing" title="Nadahan wedding bombing">Nadahan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2010_Kabul_bombing" title="May 2010 Kabul bombing">May Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Badakhshan_massacre" title="2010 Badakhshan massacre">Badakhshan massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Halmazag" title="Operation Halmazag">Operation Halmazag</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2011_in_Afghanistan" title="2011 in Afghanistan">2011</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mano_Gai_airstrike" title="Mano Gai airstrike">Mano Gai airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarposa_prison_tunneling_escape_of_2011" title="Sarposa prison tunneling escape of 2011">Sarposa prison escape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Killing of Osama bin Laden">Bin Laden raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Logar_province_bombing" title="2011 Logar province bombing">Logar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack" title="2011 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack">I-C Hotel Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Nimruz_province_bombing" title="2011 Nimruz province bombing">Nimruz bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Zabul_province_bombing" title="2011 Zabul province bombing">Zabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Afghanistan_Boeing_Chinook_shootdown" title="2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown">Chinook shootdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Helmand_Province_killing" title="2011 Helmand Province killing">Helmand killing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_NATO_attack_in_Pakistan" title="2011 NATO attack in Pakistan">Pakistani border attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Afghanistan_Ashura_bombings" title="2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings">Ashura bombings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2012_in_Afghanistan" title="2012 in Afghanistan">2012</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_order_of_battle,_2012" title="War in Afghanistan order of battle, 2012">Order of battle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_of_U.S._Marines_urinating_on_Taliban_fighters" title="Video of U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban fighters">Urination video</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Kapisa_airstrike" title="2012 Kapisa airstrike">Kapisa airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Afghanistan_Quran_burning_protests" title="2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests">Quran burning protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2012_Afghanistan_attacks" title="April 2012 Afghanistan attacks">April attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forward_Operating_Base_Delhi_massacre" title="Forward Operating Base Delhi massacre">Forward Operating Base Delhi massacre</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kandahar massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2012_raid_on_Camp_Bastion" title="September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion">September Camp Bastion raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shesh_Aba_raid" title="Shesh Aba raid">Shesh Aba raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._soldiers_posing_with_body_parts_of_dead_Afghans" title="U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of dead Afghans">Body pictures</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2013_in_Afghanistan" title="2013 in Afghanistan">2013</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Farah_attack" title="2013 Farah attack">Farah attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11_June_2013_Kabul_bombing" title="11 June 2013 Kabul bombing">June Kabul bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Afghan_presidential_palace_attack" title="2013 Afghan presidential palace attack">Presidential palace attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_attack_on_U.S._consulate_in_Herat" title="2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat">Herat U.S. consulate attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_bombing_of_Indian_consulate_in_Jalalabad" title="2013 bombing of Indian consulate in Jalalabad">Jalalabad Indian consulate bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2014_in_Afghanistan" title="2014 in Afghanistan">2014</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Kabul Serena Hotel attack">Kabul S Hotel attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_attack_on_Indian_consulate_in_Herat" title="2014 attack on Indian consulate in Herat">Herat Indian consulate attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2014 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Paktika_car_bombing" title="2014 Paktika car bombing">Paktika bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Yahyakhel_suicide_bombing" title="2014 Yahyakhel suicide bombing">Yahyakhel bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2014_Kabul_bombings" title="December 2014 Kabul bombings">December Kabul bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atiqullah_Raufi" title="Atiqullah Raufi">Atiqullah Raufi assassination</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2015_in_Afghanistan" title="2015 in Afghanistan">2015</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015_Park_Palace_guesthouse_attack" title="2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack">Park Palace attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kabul_Parliament_attack" title="2015 Kabul Parliament attack">Kabul Parliament attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Khost_suicide_bombing" title="2015 Khost suicide bombing">Khost bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing">April Jalalabad bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_August_2015_Kabul_attacks" title="7 August 2015 Kabul attacks">7 August Kabul attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10_August_2015_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="10 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing">10 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22_August_2015_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="22 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing">22 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghazni_prison_escape" title="Ghazni prison escape">Ghazni prison escape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2015)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2015)">Battle of Kunduz</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike" title="Kunduz hospital airstrike">Hospital airstrike</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kandahar_Airport_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Kandahar Airport bombing">Kandahar Airport bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Spanish_Embassy_attack_in_Kabul" title="2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul">Kabul Spanish Embassy attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2015 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2016_in_Afghanistan" title="2016 in Afghanistan">2016</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_offensive_(2016)" title="Nangarhar offensive (2016)">Nangarhar offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Omari" title="Operation Omari">Operation Omari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2016_Kabul_attack" title="April 2016 Kabul attack">April Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz-Takhar_highway_hostage_crisis" title="Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis">Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_attack_on_Canadian_Embassy_guards" title="Kabul attack on Canadian Embassy guards">Kabul Canadian Embassy convoy bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30_June_2016_Afghanistan_bombings" title="30 June 2016 Afghanistan bombings">30 June bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2016_Kabul_bombing" title="July 2016 Kabul bombing">July Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janikhel_offensive" title="Janikhel offensive">Janikhel offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_University_of_Afghanistan_attack" title="American University of Afghanistan attack">AUoA attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2016_Kabul_attacks" title="September 2016 Kabul attacks">September Kabul attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarinkot_(2016)" title="Battle of Tarinkot (2016)">Battle of Tarinkot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2016)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2016)">Battle of Kunduz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Boz_Qandahari" title="Battle of Boz Qandahari">Battle of Boz Qandahari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_bombing_of_the_German_consulate_in_Mazar-i-Sharif" title="2016 bombing of the German consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar-i-Sharif German consulate bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2016 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2017_in_Afghanistan" title="2017 in Afghanistan">2017</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_2017_Afghanistan_bombings" title="January 2017 Afghanistan bombings">January bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Sangin_airstrike" title="2017 Sangin airstrike">Sangin airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2017_Kabul_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="March 2017 Kabul attack">March Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Nangarhar_airstrike" title="2017 Nangarhar airstrike">Nangarhar airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Camp_Shaheen_attack" title="2017 Camp Shaheen attack">Camp Shaheen attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2017_Kabul_bombing" title="May 2017 Kabul bombing">May Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2017_Herat_mosque_bombing" title="June 2017 Herat mosque bombing">June Herat bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora_(2017)" title="Battle of Tora Bora (2017)">Battle of Bora Bora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2017_Lashkargah_bombing" title="June 2017 Lashkargah bombing">June Lashkargar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2017_Herat_mosque_attack" title="August 2017 Herat mosque attack">August Herat attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_October_2017_Afghanistan_attacks" title="17 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks">17 October attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_October_2017_Afghanistan_attacks" title="20 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks">20 October attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28_December_2017_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="28 December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing">28 December Kabul bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2018_in_Afghanistan" title="2018 in Afghanistan">2018</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack" title="2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack">I-C Hotel Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children_Jalalabad_attack" title="Save the Children Jalalabad attack">STC Jalalabad attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_ambulance_bombing" title="Kabul ambulance bombing">Kabul ambulance bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="March 2018 Kabul suicide bombing">March Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_madrassa_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Kunduz madrassa attack">Kunduz madrassa attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22_April_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="22 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombing">22 April Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30_April_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombings" title="30 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombings">30 April Kabul bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Farah" title="Battle of Farah">Battle of Farah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2018_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="July 2018 Jalalabad suicide bombing">July Jalalabad bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Darzab_(2018)" title="Battle of Darzab (2018)">Battle of Darzab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghazni_offensive" title="Ghazni offensive">Ghazni offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2018_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="September 2018 Jalalabad suicide bombing">September Jalalabad bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2019_in_Afghanistan" title="2019 in Afghanistan">2019</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maidan_Shar_attack" title="Maidan Shar attack">Maidan Shar attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Camp_Shorabak_attack" title="2019 Camp Shorabak attack">Camp Shorabak attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Kabul_mosque_bombing" title="2019 Kabul mosque bombing">2019 Kabul mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1_July_2019_Kabul_attack" title="1 July 2019 Kabul attack">1 July Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Ghazni_bombing" title="2019 Ghazni bombing">Ghazni bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28_July_2019_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="28 July 2019 Kabul suicide bombing">28 July Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2019_Farah_bombing" title="July 2019 Farah bombing">July Farah bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_August_2019_Kabul_bombing" title="7 August 2019 Kabul bombing">7 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_August_2019_Kabul_bombing" title="17 August 2019 Kabul bombing">17 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2_and_5_September_2019_Kabul_bombings" title="2 and 5 September 2019 Kabul bombings">2 & 5 September Kabul bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_September_2019_Afghanistan_bombings" title="17 September 2019 Afghanistan bombings">17 September bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Qalat_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Qalat bombing">Qalat bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="2019 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad suicide bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haska_Meyna_mosque_bombing" title="Haska Meyna mosque bombing">Haska Meyna mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Bagram_Airfield_attack" title="2019 Bagram Airfield attack">Bagram attack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2020_in_Afghanistan" title="2020 in Afghanistan">2020</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/6_March_2020_Kabul_shooting" title="6 March 2020 Kabul shooting">6 March Kabul shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_gurdwara_attack" title="Kabul gurdwara attack">Kabul gurdwara attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">May attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="June 2020 Afghanistan attacks">June attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="July 2020 Afghanistan attacks">July attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="August 2020 Afghanistan attacks">August attacks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jalalabad_prison_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Jalalabad prison attack">Jalalabad prison</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="September 2020 Afghanistan attacks">September attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="October 2020 Afghanistan attacks">October attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="November 2020 Afghanistan attacks">November attacks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Kabul_University_attack" title="2020 Kabul University attack">Kabul University attack</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="December 2020 Afghanistan attacks">December attacks</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2021_in_Afghanistan" title="2021 in Afghanistan">2021</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_2021_Afghanistan_attacks" title="List of 2021 Afghanistan attacks">Attacks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive" title="2021 Taliban offensive">Taliban offensive</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_school_bombing" title="2021 Kabul school bombing">Kabul school bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kandahar_(2021)" title="Battle of Kandahar (2021)">Battle of Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Herat" title="Fall of Herat">Fall of Herat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lashkargah" title="Battle of Lashkargah">Battle of Lashkargah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Zaranj" title="Capture of Zaranj">Capture of Zaranj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Fall of Kabul</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kunduz_mosque_bombing" title="2021 Kunduz mosque bombing">Kunduz mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kandahar_bombing" title="2021 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar bombing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_airlift" title="2021 Kabul airlift">2021 Kabul airlift</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Allies_Refuge" title="Operation Allies Refuge">Operation Allies Refuge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Pitting" title="Operation Pitting">Operation Pitting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Devi_Shakti" title="Operation Devi Shakti">Operation Devi Shakti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_airport_attack" title="2021 Kabul airport attack">Kabul airport attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2021_Kabul_drone_strike" title="August 2021 Kabul drone strike">August 29 drone strike</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Afghanistan_War_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Aftermath of the Afghanistan War (2001–2021)">Aftermath</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Recognition_of_the_Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan" title="Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan">Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_insurgency_in_Afghanistan" title="Republican insurgency in Afghanistan">Republican insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State%E2%80%93Taliban_conflict" title="Islamic State–Taliban conflict">Islamic State–Taliban conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_frozen_assets" title="Afghan frozen assets">Afghan frozen assets</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_in_Afghanistan" title="War crimes in Afghanistan">War crimes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_investigation_in_Afghanistan" title="International Criminal Court investigation in Afghanistan">ICC investigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Independent_Human_Rights_Commission" title="Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission">Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_unlawful_killings_inquiry" title="Afghan unlawful killings inquiry">UK Afghan Unlawful Killings inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brereton_Report" title="Brereton Report">Australian Brereton Inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_by_the_Taliban" class="mw-redirect" title="War crimes by the Taliban">War crimes by the Taliban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike" title="Kunduz hospital airstrike">Kunduz hospital airstrike</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kandahar massacre</a></li> <li>Torture <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bagram_torture_and_prisoner_abuse" title="Bagram torture and prisoner abuse">Bagram torture and prisoner abuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salt_Pit" title="Salt Pit">Salt Pit</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Peace process</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_peace_process" title="Afghan peace process">Afghan peace process</a></li> <li>Afghan peace groups <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tabassum_movement" title="Tabassum movement">Tabassum movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enlightenment_Movement_(Afghanistan)" title="Enlightenment Movement (Afghanistan)">Enlightenment Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uprising_for_Change_(Afghanistan)" title="Uprising for Change (Afghanistan)">Uprising for Change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Peace_Movement_(Afghanistan)" title="People's Peace Movement (Afghanistan)">People's Peace Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_Afghan_protests" title="2021–2022 Afghan protests">2021–2022 Afghan protests</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Reactions_and_aftermath_to_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reactions and aftermath to the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Reactions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan War documents leak">Afghan War documents leak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_public_opinion_on_the_war_in_Afghanistan" title="International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan">International public opinion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Opposition to the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Opposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protests_against_the_war_in_Afghanistan" title="Protests against the war in Afghanistan">Protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reactions_to_the_fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Reactions to the fall of Kabul (2021)">To the fall of Kabul</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Memorials</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iraq_and_Afghanistan_Memorial" title="Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial">London</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" 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style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Diplomatic posts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_Afghanistan,_Washington,_D.C." title="Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington, D.C.">Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington, D.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Afghanistan_to_the_United_States" title="List of ambassadors of Afghanistan to the United States">Ambassadors of Afghanistan to the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Kabul" title="Embassy of the United States, Kabul">Embassy of the United States, Kabul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_the_United_States_to_Afghanistan" title="List of ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan">Ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_Inspector_General_for_Afghanistan_Reconstruction" title="Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction">Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Permanent_Mission_of_Afghanistan_to_the_United_Nations" title="Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations">Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_South_and_Central_Asian_Affairs" title="Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs">Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Diplomacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Cyclone" title="Operation Cyclone">Operation Cyclone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_MIAS" title="Operation MIAS">Operation MIAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S.%E2%80%93Afghanistan_Strategic_Partnership_Agreement" title="U.S.–Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement">U.S.–Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Taliban_deal" title="United States–Taliban deal">U.S.–Taliban deal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six_plus_Three" title="Six plus Three">Six plus Three</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six_plus_Two_Group_on_Afghanistan" title="Six plus Two Group on Afghanistan">Six plus Two Group on Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally" title="Major non-NATO ally">Major non-NATO ally</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Timeline of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opposition_to_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Opposition to the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Opposition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2011%E2%80%932016)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)">2011–2016 withdrawal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_U.S._troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan" title="2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan">2020–2021 withdrawal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Fall of Kabul (2021)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Afghanistan" title="CIA activities in Afghanistan">CIA activities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Task_Force_Phoenix" title="Task Force Phoenix">Task Force Phoenix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_peace_process" title="Afghan peace process">Peace process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_in_Afghanistan" title="Reconstruction in Afghanistan">Reconstruction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_frozen_assets" title="Afghan frozen assets">Afghan frozen assets</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:center;">Incidents</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolph_Dubs" title="Adolph Dubs">Adolph Dubs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach" title="Operation Infinite Reach">Operation Infinite Reach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack" title="Camp Chapman attack">Camp Chapman attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_attack_on_the_United_States_embassy,_Kabul" title="2011 attack on the United States embassy, Kabul">2011 U.S. embassy attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_of_U.S._Marines_urinating_on_Taliban_fighters" title="Video of U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban fighters">Video of U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban fighters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Afghanistan_Quran_burning_protests" title="2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests">Quran burning protests</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kandahar massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insurgents%27_bodies_incident" title="Insurgents' bodies incident">Insurgents' bodies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_attack_on_U.S._consulate_in_Herat" title="2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat">2013 U.S. Herat consulate attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Ayman_al-Zawahiri" title="Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri">Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deportation_of_Afghan_immigrants_from_the_United_States" title="Deportation of Afghan immigrants from the United States">Deportation of Afghan immigrants</a></li> <li><a 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