2024 in Afghanistan

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]

• January – Afghan cricket team in India in 2023–24^[14]
• 25 December 2023 – 2 January 2024: Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2023–24^[15]