Events in the year 2022 in Afghanistan. According to the

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, by 2022, 97% of Afghans could fall under the

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, which would plunge the country into a major

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. After the Fall of Kabul, in which the Islamist

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drove out the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

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after its 20-year rule, the Taliban promised to set up a new constitution for

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. The constitution is intended to be adopted in 2022. The

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continue their

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, carrying out many bombings. Afghanistan is also badly affected by earthquakes and

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Incumbents

Events

Ongoing

Afghan conflict The Afghan conflict ( ps, دافغانستان جنګونه; fa, جنگ های افغانستان) refers to the series of events that have kept Afghanistan in a near-continuous state of armed conflict since the 1970s. Early instability follo ...

Islamic State–Taliban conflict The Islamic State–Taliban conflict is an ongoing armed conflict between the Islamic State and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The conflict escalated when militants who were affiliated with Islamic State – Khorasan Province killed Abdul Ghani, a ...

Republican insurgency in Afghanistan The republican insurgency in Afghanistan is an ongoing armed conflict between the National Resistance Front and allied groups which fight under the banner of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on one side, and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanis ...

Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes A series of occasional armed skirmishes and firefights have occurred along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border between the Afghan Armed Forces and the Pakistan Armed Forces since 1949. The latest round of hostilities between the two countries be ...

** Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri * COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan

January

* 1 January –

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sends 500,000 doses of

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to Afghanistan as a part of a humanitarian aid program. * 9 January – Faizullah Jalal, a

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Kabul University Kabul University (KU; prs, دانشگاه کابل, translit= Dāneshgāh-e-Kābul; ps, د کابل پوهنتون, translit=Da Kābul Pohantūn) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd ...

and a critic of the Taliban, is arrested by the new Government of Afghanistan. * 16 January – Last of the

2021–2022 Afghan protests Protests in Afghanistan against the Taliban started on 17 August 2021 following the Fall of Kabul to the Taliban. These protests are held by Islamic democrats and feminists. Both groups are against the treatment of women by the Taliban governmen ...

* 17 January – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Badghis Province, killing at least 26 people. * 22 January – Herat bus bombing

February

* 2 February - Taliban reopens public universities across the country. * 5 February –

–

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militants based in Afghanistan cross into

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and attack a

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checkpoint on the

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, killing five Pakistani soldiers. * 15 February – Death of Haider * 24 February – Eight workers for a

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polio vaccination program are murdered in four different locations in northern Afghanistan.

March

* 4 March –

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a bomb in a

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Paktia Province Paktia (Pashto/Dari: – ''Paktyā'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktia Province is divided into 15 districts and has a population of roughly ...

, killing three people and injuring at least 24.

April

* 9 April – 2022 Afghanistan-Pakistan clashes * 16 April – 2022 Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan * 19 April – April 2022 Kabul school bombing * 21 April –

2022 Mazar-i-Sharif mosque bombing On 21 April 2022, a powerful bomb rocked the Shia Seh Dokan mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province, Afghanistan killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 87 others. The Islamic State – Khorasan Province claimed responsibility via Tel ...

* 22 April –

2022 Kunduz mosque bombing On 22 April 2022, the Sufi Mawlawi Sekandar Mosque in Kunduz, Afghanistan was bombed, leaving 33 people dead and 43 others injured. Background Afghanistan was ruled from 1996 to 2001 as a Sharia state under the rule of hard-line Deobandi ...

* 28 April –

28 April 2022 Mazar-i-Sharif bombings On 28 April 2022, at least 11 people were killed and 13 others injured by a double bombing in Mazar-i-Sharif in Balkh Province, Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغ� ...

* 29 April –

April 2022 Kabul mosque bombing On 29 April 2022, a bombing occurred at a Sunni mosque in western Kabul, Afghanistan during the early afternoon of 29 April 2022, killing at least 10 people. Background The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks occurring in April 202 ...

May

* 1 May – Afghanistan's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada made a public appearance on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. * 5 May – A series of floods kill 22 people. * 25 May: **

May 2022 Kabul mosque bombing On 25 May 2022, at least 5 people were killed when the Hazrat Zakaria Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, was bombed. At least 17 others were injured. The cause of the bombing was an improvised explosive device that had been hidden inside the mosque p ...

2022 Mazar-i-Sharif minivan bombings On 25 May 2022, three explosions hit a group of minivans in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province. 9 people were killed and 15 others wounded. Taliban authorities said that the terrorists responsible had placed IEDs inside the veh ...

June

* 22 June – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes

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, killing at least 1,163 people and injuring over 3,000. Over 25 villages were razed to the ground. The

Barmal District Barmal District ( ps, برمل ولسوالۍ, prs, ولسوالی برمل) is a district of Paktika Province, Afghanistan. It shares a border with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, Pakistan. The Angur Ada is the official border checkpoint a ...

was worst affected, with nearly half of the fatalities occurring there. 238 others were also killed in the

Gayan District Gayan District ( ps, ګيان ولسوالۍ, prs, ولسوالی گیان) is a district of Paktika Province, Afghanistan. The estimated population in 2019 was 46,977 people. The district is within the heartland of the Zadran tribe of Pashtuns. ...

, where over 70% of the district's houses collapsed. The

Spera District Spera District is situated in the most southwestern part of Khost Province, Afghanistan. It borders with Paktia Province to the south and west, Shamal District to the north. The district is within the heartland of the Zadran tribe of Pashtuns. To ...

, closest to the earthquake's epicentre, experienced 40 fatalities, and the destruction of 500 homes. It is deadliest earthquake in Afghanistan since

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. * 29 June – Afghanistan Ulema gathering

July

* 31 July - Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri

August

* 5 August -

5 August 2022 Kabul bombing On 5 August 2022, Islamic State – Khorasan Province bombed, a Muharram mourning procession in western Kabul, Afghanistan. The attack killed at least 8 people and injured 18 others. See also * List of terrorist attacks in Kabul * Terrorist i ...

* 17 August -

August 2022 Kabul mosque bombing On 17 August 2022, the Abu Bakr al Sadiq Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan was bombed. Many were reported killed in the explosion. Residents nearby also heard gunshots after the explosion occurred. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, altho ...

September

* 2 September - 2022 Herat mosque bombing * 5 September **

Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul On 5 September 2022, a suicide bombing occurred outside the Embassy of Russia, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Attack The attack was carried out at around 10:50 a.m., when a crowd of people were gathering to apply for visas to travel to Russia. Kabul p ...

** September 2022 Afghanistan earthquake * 23 September -

September 2022 Kabul mosque bombing On 23 September 2022 a car bomb exploded outside a mosque in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood of Kabul, Afghanistan. The explosion happened as worshippers were leaving the building after finishing Friday prayers. Police said that seven people h ...

* 30 September -

September 2022 Kabul school bombing On September 30, 2022, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Kaaj education center in Dashte Barchi, a Hazara neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 52 people according to the Associated Press. The majority of the victims were y ...

November

* 10 November - Ministry of Virtue and Vice issues ban on women from entering parks and gyms throughout the country. * 30 November -

2022 Aybak bombing On November 30, 2022, a bombing of a madrasa in Aybak, Samangan Province, Afghanistan killed 17 people and injured 26 others. The majority of those killed were children. No group claimed responsibility. References See also * Terrorist inc ...

December

* 6 December -

December 2022 Mazar-i-Sharif bombing On 6 December 2022 a bomb blast killed at least 7 and injured 6 people in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. The explosion was reportedly caused by a mine planted on the side of the road. See also * List of massacres in Afghanistan The following ...

* 12 December -

2022 Kabul hotel attack On 12 December 2022, insurgents attacked a hotel popular with foreigners in Kabul, Afghanistan. At least 3 civilians were killed. 18 others, including foreigners, are reported to be among those injured. Islamic State – Khorasan Province claime ...

* 18 December - At least 20 people are killed when a

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overturns,

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s and catches fire in the

Salang Tunnel The Salang Tunnel ( prs, تونل سالنگ ''Tūnel-e Sālang'', ps, د سالنگ تونل ''Da Sālang Tūnel'') is a tunnel in Afghanistan, located at the Salang Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains, between the Parwan and Baghlan provinces, ...

. * 20 December - Taliban bans Afghan women from attending universities cause of islamic shariyyah. Which gives them lots of opportunities.

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