2014 in Afghanistan

The following lists events from 2014 in Afghanistan.

Events

January

• January 6 - A suicide car bomber detonates at a police checkpoint in Ghazni Province, killing 3 police officers.
• January 8 - A book released by former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticizes President Barack Obama for his handling of the War in Afghanistan.
• January 9 - The government of Afghanistan announces the release of 72 Taliban fighters from jails, despite American objections that they pose a security threat.
• January 11 - A four-year-old Afghan boy is killed by U.S. troops.
• January 17 - Twenty-one people are killed in a suicide bombing attack on a Kabul restaurant.
• January 26 - A suicide bomber attacks an army bus in Kabul, killing two soldiers and two civilians.

February

• February 10 - A car bomb detonates in Kabul, killing two contractors working with ISAF.
• February 13 - War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
  • Corporal Cameron Baird becomes the 100th Australian to be awarded a Victoria Cross, which was received for actions taken in combat in Uruzgan Province on June 22, 2013 which led to his death.
  • Afghanistan releases 65 prisoners from the Parwan Detention Facility despite concerns by the United States that the men were responsible for attacks on NATO and Afghan forces.
• February 24 - Senior Taliban commander Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani is killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

March

• March 1 - A welcome home parade in Darwin marks the official end of Australia's active involvement in the Afghanistan War.
• March 6 - A NATO airstrike mistakenly hits a Afghan military outpost in Logar Province killing 5 Afghan soldiers.
• March 11 - Gunmen in Kabul kill Swedish Radio foreign correspondent Nils Horner.
• March 12 - Three Taliban insurgents are killed by a team of Afghan police and private commandos after attacking a former National Directorate of Security headquarters in Kandahar. The Taliban claims they killed four commandos and five policemen, which police deny.
• March 18 - A suicide rickshaw bomber detonates in a marketplace in Maymana, killing 15 people.
• March 20 - War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
  • Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least 9 people, including 4 foreigners.
  • Suicide bombers attack a police station in the city of Jalalabad resulting in at least 11 deaths and 22 people being injured.

April

• April 2 - A suicide bomber wearing a military uniform strikes a voter registration office in Kabul, killing 6 police officers.
• April 4 - Two members of the Associated Press are shot by an Afghan wearing a police uniform in Khost. One of them, Pulitzer Prize winner and photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus, is killed. The other is seriously injured.
• April 24 - A policeman shoots dead three American medical staff in Kabul. The policeman is reported to have shot himself after the attack.
• April 26 - Five British ISAF personnel are killed in a military helicopter crash in Kandahar province.
• April 26 - The death toll from recent flooding in northern Afghanistan rises to 123.
• April 26 - Afghan Presidential elections are set to go to a second round between former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani after no candidate won an absolute majority in first round.

September

• September 8 - A suicide bomb attack kills the police chief of southern Kandahar Province.