History Hop Tags - Kabul

1842-01-06

4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India

1879-10-12

British troops occupy Kabul, Afghanistan

1929-10-08

Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi

1965-01-01

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.

1979-02-14

In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.

1979-12-26

Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.

1980-09-25

The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.

1989-01-30

The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

1996-09-27

In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.

1996-12-27

Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul.

2001-11-12

2001 Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.

2001-11-14

War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.

2012-03-16

Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan

2012-09-08

6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan

2013-03-09

19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan

2013-06-03

20 people, including 10 children, are killed by a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan

2013-08-11

22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Pakistan

2014-01-17

21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan

2017-05-31

Explosion in diplomatic area of Kabul kills 9, wounds dozens

2018-04-30

25 killed, including 7 journalists, in Kabul suicide bombing

1960-9-02

Thomas Schweich, Leben und Sterben für Kabul - Wie Deutschland am Hindukusch die Freiheit verteidigt

1962-12-05

Nils Horner, Sveriges Radios Asienkorrespondent skjuten i Kabul

2014-03-11

Nils Horner, Sveriges Radios Asienkorrespondent skjuten i Kabul

2015-02-26

Thomas Schweich, Leben und Sterben für Kabul - Wie Deutschland am Hindukusch die Freiheit verteidigt