Topic summary
Ghazni offensive
Afghanistan
United States
Taliban(President of Afghanistan)
Mohammad Sharif Yaftali
(ANA chief of staff)
Brig. Gen. Dadan Lawang
(203rd Corps)
Gen. John Nicholson
(Commander of Resolute Support Mission)
Hibatullah Akhundzada(Supreme Commander)
Several contingents
- Foreign insurgents (Pakistanis, Chechens and Arabs acc. to Afghan gov.)
3 Army Special Operations teams (ODA's)
140–200 killed (in the whole Ghazni province)- 2 helicopters shot down
9 injured- 7 U.S. military armoured vehicles destroyed
Major operations
- Mountain Viper
- Asbury Park
- 2006 Taliban offensive
- Perth
- Chora
- Firebase Anaconda
- Shewan
- Balamorghab
- Sabzak
- Derapet
- Doan
- Kunduz (2015)
- Omari
- Tarinkot
- Kunduz (2016)
- Boz Qandahari
- Darzab (2017)
- Farah
- Darzab (2018)
- Kunar (2019–2020)
- Ghazni
- 2021 Taliban offensive
Airstrikes
- Sayyd Alma Kalay
- Uruzgan wedding
- Hyderabad
- Gora Prai
- Haska Meyna/Deh Bala
- Azizabad
- Wech Baghtu
- Granai
- Kunduz (2009)
- Uruzgan helicopter
- Sangin (2010)
- Mano Gai
- Baraki Barak
- Kapisa
- Kunar
- Kunduz hospital
- Sangin (2017)
- Nangarhar
- Kunduz madrassa
Major insurgent attacks
2002
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
- Jalalabad
- Kabul hotel
- Kabul Parliament
- Khost
- Kabul police
- Kabul Airport
- Kabul NATO
- Ghazni
- Kandahar
- Kabul Spanish embassy
- Bagram
2016
- Jalalabad
- Kabul NDS
- Kunduz-Takhar highway
- Kabul Canadian embassy
- Wardak
- Kabul Hazara protest
- Kabul University
- Kabul Defense Ministry
- Mazar-i-Sharif
- Bagram
2017
- Bombings (Jan)
- Kabul hospital
- Camp Shaheen
- Kabul (May)
- Herat (Jun)
- June Lashkargah
- Herat (Aug)
- Gardez & Ghazni
- Kabul & Ghor
- Kabul Shi'ite
2018
- Kabul hotel
- Jalalabad (Save the Children)
- Kabul ambulance
- Kabul (Mar)
- Kabul (22 Apr)
- Kabul (30 Apr)
- Jalalabad (Jul)
- Baghlan
- Kabul (Sep)
- Jalalabad (Sep)
2019
- Maidan Shar
- Camp Shorabak
- Kabul mosque
- Kabul Defense Ministry
- Ghazni
- Kabul office
- Farah
- Kabul police
- Kabul wedding
- Kabul (Sep)
- Charikar & Kabul
- Qalat
- Jalalabad
- Haska Meyna
- Bagram
2020
2021
Massacres
Other
The Ghazni offensive began on 10 August 2018, when Taliban fighters launched an assault on the city of Ghazni, Afghanistan's sixth largest city and one which has been culturally and strategically important for much of the country's history. The attack resulted in the deaths of hundreds of insurgents, soldiers, police, and civilians. The city also sustained large-scale property damage. The battle, occurring only weeks before Afghanistan's 2018 parliamentary election, was the largest since a three-day truce in June had raised hopes of peace talks.
The battle was part of a larger coordinated offensive by the Taliban which allowed the Taliban to capture several government bases and districts and killed hundreds of Afghan soldiers and police.