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Events from the year '''2012 in [[Afghanistan]]'''
Events from the year '''2012 in [[Afghanistan]]'''


==January==
==Events==
===January===
* President [[Hamid Karzai]] said police will arrest members of a family accused of torturing and illegally detaining their son’s teenage wife [[Sahar Gul]] for the past six months while trying to force her into a life of crime, and that whoever used violence against the 15-year-old in northeastern [[Baghlan Province]] must be punished.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-president-orders-arrest-of-family-accused-of-torturing-sons-15-year-old-wife/2012/01/01/gIQAMmbNUP_story.html|title=Afghan president orders arrest of family accused of torturing son’s 15-year-old wife|newspaper=[[Associated Press]] via [[Washington Post]]|date=January 1, 2012|accessdate=January 1, 2012|deadurl=yes}} {{Dead link|date=August 2012|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref>
* January 1 - President [[Hamid Karzai]] said police will arrest members of a family accused of torturing and illegally detaining their son’s teenage wife [[Sahar Gul]] for the past six months while trying to force her into a life of crime, and that whoever used violence against the 15-year-old in northeastern [[Baghlan Province]] must be punished.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-president-orders-arrest-of-family-accused-of-torturing-sons-15-year-old-wife/2012/01/01/gIQAMmbNUP_story.html|title=Afghan president orders arrest of family accused of torturing son’s 15-year-old wife|newspaper=[[Associated Press]] via [[Washington Post]]|date=January 1, 2012|accessdate=January 1, 2012|deadurl=yes}} {{Dead link|date=August 2012|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref>
* January 3 - '''[[War in Afghanistan (2001-present)]]'''
** A suicide bomber kills four civilians and a police officer in Kandahar.
** At least twelve people are killed in three bombing attacks in southern Afghanistan.
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*January 20 - [[Taliban]] fighters in Afghanistan were enraged by a video which shows [[USMC|U.S. marines]] urinating on three corpses, believed to be insurgents, and some said they did not understand their leadership's relatively measured response to the tape; meanwhile U.S. General [[John R. Allen]], who commands [[ISAF|international troops in Afghanistan]], accused the Taliban's one-eyed leader, [[Mullah Muhammad Omar]], of having "lost all control" of his frontline fighters after several suicide bombings in the restive south killed almost 20 people, mostly civilians.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/us-afghanistan-pakistan-taliban-idUSTRE80J0D320120120|title=Marine tape reaction sets Taliban fighters against commanders|newspaper=[[Reuters]]|date=January 20, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref>
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* January 21 - [[France|French]] Defence Minister [[Gerard Longuet]] said the four French soldiers killed and 16 wounded at the Gwan military unit in [[Kapisa Province]], eastern Afghanistan, were shot by [[Taliban]] "infiltrated for a long time" in the ranks of the [[Afghan National Army|Afghan army]]; the killings prompted France to suspend work with Afghan counterparts and consider an earlier timeline for withdrawal.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h4pKtUzp3bEEwfsIL_Hl9ImZeTsw?docId=CNG.b02498835d57a2cde70252bf1fb47b37.a21|title='Taliban infiltrator' killed French soldiers|newspaper=[[Agence France Presse]]|date=January 21, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref> Subsequently, French President [[Nicolas Sarkozy]], accompanied by [[Hamid Karzai]], announced that French forces would withdraw from Afghanistan a year ahead of schedule, in 2013, and that France would urge other [[NATO]] countries to do the same.<ref>Cody, Edward and Karen DeYoung, "France to accelerate Afghan withdrawal", ''Washington Post'' p. A1, January 28, 2012.</ref> Meanwhile, the U.S. [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] identified six [[USMC|Marines]] who were killed in Afghanistan when their helicopter crashed; the [[Taliban]] claimed credit but there was no report of enemy activity in the area.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/21/world/asia/afghanistan-marine-deaths/index.html|title=Marines killed in crash identified|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=January 21, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref>
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* January 21 - America's special envoy to the region [[Marc Grossman]] talked peace and reconciliation with [[Hamid Karzai]] in [[Kabul]], though the Afghan president made it clear that Afghans should be in the driver's seat; Grossman will meet again with Karzai in discussions aimed at achieving a peaceful resolution to conflict with [[Taliban]] insurgents.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/21/world/asia/afghanistan-grossman-talks/index.html?hpt=hp_t2|title=U.S. envoy Grossman in Afghanistan to discuss peace, Taliban |newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=January 21, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref> Hours before the meeting, Karzai said he personally held peace talks recently with the insurgent faction [[Hizb-i-Islami]], appearing to assert his own role in a U.S.-led bid for negotiations to end the country's decade-long war.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h6oEJHuroNlnouqUMg3DmMUJhxyA?docId=33da5aca3942409a972306720c5fc39c|title=Karzai says he's met with Afghan insurgent faction|last=Johnson|first=Kay|newspaper=[[Associated Press]]|date=January 21, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref>
* January 31 - An Afghan woman was killed by her husband and mother-in-law 3 months after giving birth to her third daughter after not producing a son.


===February===
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* [[Taliban]] fighters in Afghanistan were enraged by a video which shows [[USMC|U.S. marines]] urinating on three corpses, believed to be insurgents, and some said they did not understand their leadership's relatively measured response to the tape; meanwhile U.S. General [[John R. Allen]], who commands [[ISAF|international troops in Afghanistan]], accused the Taliban's one-eyed leader, [[Mullah Muhammad Omar]], of having "lost all control" of his frontline fighters after several suicide bombings in the restive south killed almost 20 people, mostly civilians.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/us-afghanistan-pakistan-taliban-idUSTRE80J0D320120120|title=Marine tape reaction sets Taliban fighters against commanders|newspaper=[[Reuters]]|date=January 20, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref>
{{Incomplete section|date=December 2014}}
* February 1 - '''[[War in Afghanistan (2001-present)]]'''
** ''[[The London Times]]'' reports that a secret NATO report claims that the [[Taliban]], backed by [[Pakistan]], is set to regain control over Afghanistan after international forces withdraw from the country.
** Pakistan Air Force jets bomb militant positions in the Orakzai and Kurram Agency areas near the border with Afghanistan with claims that 31 alleged insurgents were killed.
* February 4 - The [[United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan]] estimates that civilian deaths in the war in Afghanistan rose to a record level in 2011 of 3021 with insurgents responsible for most of the deaths.
* February 10 - The United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tells the Marine Corps to re-investigate and take appropriate action against snipers who posed with a logo resembling that of the Nazi Schutzstaffel in Afghanistan.
* February 21 - US General John R. Allen, the head of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan commissions an inquiry into allegations that Qurans were burnt at an American Air Force base as Afghans protest.
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* February 22 - '''[[2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests]]'''
** Hundreds of Afghans hold violent protests against the alleged burning of Qurans at the Bagram Airbase north of Kabul.
** The United States Embassy in Kabul goes into lockdown as a result of the protests.


===March===
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* [[France|French]] Defence Minister [[Gerard Longuet]] said the four French soldiers killed and 16 wounded at the Gwan military unit in [[Kapisa Province]], eastern Afghanistan, were shot by [[Taliban]] "infiltrated for a long time" in the ranks of the [[Afghan National Army|Afghan army]]; the killings prompted France to suspend work with Afghan counterparts and consider an earlier timeline for withdrawal.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h4pKtUzp3bEEwfsIL_Hl9ImZeTsw?docId=CNG.b02498835d57a2cde70252bf1fb47b37.a21|title='Taliban infiltrator' killed French soldiers|newspaper=[[Agence France Presse]]|date=January 21, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref> Subsequently, French President [[Nicolas Sarkozy]], accompanied by [[Hamid Karzai]], announced that French forces would withdraw from Afghanistan a year ahead of schedule, in 2013, and that France would urge other [[NATO]] countries to do the same.<ref>Cody, Edward and Karen DeYoung, "France to accelerate Afghan withdrawal", ''Washington Post'' p. A1, January 28, 2012.</ref> Meanwhile, the U.S. [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] identified six [[USMC|Marines]] who were killed in Afghanistan when their helicopter crashed; the [[Taliban]] claimed credit but there was no report of enemy activity in the area.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/21/world/asia/afghanistan-marine-deaths/index.html|title=Marines killed in crash identified|newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=January 21, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref>
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* March 4 - The burning of [[Quran]]s at a [[NATO]] base in Afghanistan advanced the Pakistani-controlled [[Taliban]]'s cause and any repeat of similar "negligence" by Western forces would be disastrous, according to the Afghan army chief of staff; "The enemy (Taliban) will enlarge it and make use of it in such a way to instigate everybody," General [[Sher Mohammad Karimi]] said in an interview.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/04/us-afghanistan-army-korans-idUSTRE82304320120304|title=Afghan army chief warns against another NATO blunder|newspaper=[[Reuters]]|last=Ferris-Rotman|first=Aime|accessdate=3/4/2012|date=3/4/2012}}</ref>
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* March 11 -An American soldier left his base and went from house to house in Alokozai and Barakzai in [[Kandahar Province]], killing 17 people in their homes, Afghan officials told [[CNN]]; the dead include nine children and three women, plus five wounded, leading [[Hamid Karzai]] to say "The murdering of innocent people intentionally by an American soldier is an act of terror that is unforgivable." ISAF commander Gen. [[John R. Allen]] said the "deeply appalling incident in no way represents the values of ISAF and coalition troops or the abiding respect we feel for the Afghan people."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/11/world/asia/afghanistan-us-service-member/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=U.S. soldier kills 16 Afghan civilians, Karzai says|newspaper=[[CNN]]|last=Sidner|first=Sara|accessdate=3/11/2012|date=3/11/2012}}</ref>
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* March - Afghans "have run out of patience" with foreign troops, the country's MPs have warned, after a US soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians. The strongly-worded resolution came as US officials issued an alert, fearing reprisals after the Kandahar rampage. Nine children were among those killed. Afghan President [[Hamid Karzai]] said the act was "unforgivable" and Taliban militants have vowed revenge. The soldier is being questioned. Nato has promised to deliver justice. The killings could further fuel calls for a more rapid withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. They come amid already high anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan following the burning of [[Quran]] at a Nato base in Kabul last month. US officials have repeatedly apologised for that incident.


===April===
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* America's special envoy to the region [[Marc Grossman]] talked peace and reconciliation with [[Hamid Karzai]] in [[Kabul]], though the Afghan president made it clear that Afghans should be in the driver's seat; Grossman will meet again with Karzai in discussions aimed at achieving a peaceful resolution to conflict with [[Taliban]] insurgents.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/21/world/asia/afghanistan-grossman-talks/index.html?hpt=hp_t2|title=U.S. envoy Grossman in Afghanistan to discuss peace, Taliban |newspaper=[[CNN]]|date=January 21, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref> Hours before the meeting, Karzai said he personally held peace talks recently with the insurgent faction [[Hizb-i-Islami]], appearing to assert his own role in a U.S.-led bid for negotiations to end the country's decade-long war.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h6oEJHuroNlnouqUMg3DmMUJhxyA?docId=33da5aca3942409a972306720c5fc39c|title=Karzai says he's met with Afghan insurgent faction|last=Johnson|first=Kay|newspaper=[[Associated Press]]|date=January 21, 2012|accessdate=January 21, 2012}}</ref>
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* April - A [[suicide bomber]] kills at least 12 people and injures many more in Afghanistan's [[Faryab province]].
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* 11 April - Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised the possibility to hold presidential elections in 2013, instead of 2014 as scheduled.<ref name="Telegraph20120420">{{cite news|title=Hamid Karzai considering early Afghan presidential elections in 2013|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9199856/Hamid-Karzai-considering-early-Afghan-presidential-elections-in-2013.html|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=|author=Ben Farmer|date=12 April 2012|location=London}}</ref> He issued the concern that having the complete security handover and a presidential election take place in one and the same year could be a problem. Karzai said, "This is a question that I've had and I've raised it in my inner circle. I've not had a final decision yet, but it will not be soon."<ref name="Telegraph20120420" />
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* 15 April - [[April 2012 Afghanistan attacks]]


==February==
===May===
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* 13 May - [[Moulavi Arsala Rahmani]], a key member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council is assassinated;<ref name="Peace negotiator, NATO troops killed in Afghanistan">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/13/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html|date=14 May 2012 | work=CNN | title=Peace negotiator, NATO troops killed in Afghanistan}}</ref> responsibility is claimed by the [[Mullah Dadullah Front]].<ref name="norland">Norland, Rod, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/world/asia/in-afghanistan-new-insurgent-group-emerges.html In Afghanistan, New Group Begins Campaign of Terror]", ''[[The New York Times]]'', 19 May 2012.</ref>
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* [[2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests]]


==March==
===June===
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* 2 June - SAS and US Delta force conduct joint operation which successfully rescues 5 foreign aid workers from a gang of insurgents in Shahr-e-Bozorg district near the Afghan - Tajikistan border.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153620/SAS-swoop-Afghan-insurgents-breathtaking-rescue-British-aid-worker-kidnapped-month.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Ian | last=Garland | date=2 June 2012}}</ref> SAS and Delta Force arrived by helicopter and took part in "long march" to a cave where the 5 aid workerswere being held in a maze of caves. The two teams then engaged insurgents in a firefight and overpowered the heavily armed kidnappers, and the hostages were rescued in the cave assaulted by the SAS. 11 insurgents were killed in the assault and there were no SAS fatalities or injuries.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/how-the-sas-freed-hostages-from-taliban-caves-20120603-1zq1s.html | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | title=How the SAS freed hostages from Taliban caves}}</ref>
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* The burning of [[Quran]]s at a [[NATO]] base in Afghanistan advanced the Pakistani-controlled [[Taliban]]'s cause and any repeat of similar "negligence" by Western forces would be disastrous, according to the Afghan army chief of staff; "The enemy (Taliban) will enlarge it and make use of it in such a way to instigate everybody," General [[Sher Mohammad Karimi]] said in an interview.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/04/us-afghanistan-army-korans-idUSTRE82304320120304|title=Afghan army chief warns against another NATO blunder|newspaper=[[Reuters]]|last=Ferris-Rotman|first=Aime|accessdate=3/4/2012|date=3/4/2012}}</ref>
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* An American soldier left his base and went from house to house in Alokozai and Barakzai in [[Kandahar Province]], killing 17 people in their homes, Afghan officials told [[CNN]]; the dead include nine children and three women, plus five wounded, leading [[Hamid Karzai]] to say "The murdering of innocent people intentionally by an American soldier is an act of terror that is unforgivable." ISAF commander Gen. [[John R. Allen]] said the "deeply appalling incident in no way represents the values of ISAF and coalition troops or the abiding respect we feel for the Afghan people."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/11/world/asia/afghanistan-us-service-member/index.html?hpt=hp_t1|title=U.S. soldier kills 16 Afghan civilians, Karzai says|newspaper=[[CNN]]|last=Sidner|first=Sara|accessdate=3/11/2012|date=3/11/2012}}</ref>
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*Afghans "have run out of patience" with foreign troops, the country's MPs have warned, after a US soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians. The strongly-worded resolution came as US officials issued an alert, fearing reprisals after the Kandahar rampage. Nine children were among those killed. Afghan President [[Hamid Karzai]] said the act was "unforgivable" and Taliban militants have vowed revenge. The soldier is being questioned. Nato has promised to deliver justice. The killings could further fuel calls for a more rapid withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. They come amid already high anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan following the burning of [[Quran]] at a Nato base in Kabul last month. US officials have repeatedly apologised for that incident.


==April==
===July===
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* 30 July - A bomb placed inside a mosque exploded in Tarinkot city, the provincial capital for Uruzgan province, during the morning prayer. The mullah of the mosque and the provincial judge, was killed and four other people present there were injured.<ref>{{cite news|title=Judge killed in Kandahar mosque explosion|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article3703202.ece|accessdate=3 August 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=30 July 2012|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
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* A [[suicide bomber]] kills at least 12 people and injures many more in Afghanistan's [[Faryab province.]]
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* 11 April: Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised the possibility to hold presidential elections in 2013, instead of 2014 as scheduled.<ref name="Telegraph20120420">{{cite news|title=Hamid Karzai considering early Afghan presidential elections in 2013|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9199856/Hamid-Karzai-considering-early-Afghan-presidential-elections-in-2013.html|publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=|author=Ben Farmer|date=12 April 2012|location=London}}</ref> He issued the concern that having the complete security handover and a presidential election take place in one and the same year could be a problem. Karzai said, "This is a question that I've had and I've raised it in my inner circle. I've not had a final decision yet, but it will not be soon."<ref name="Telegraph20120420" />
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* 15 April: [[April 2012 Afghanistan attacks]]


==May==
===August===
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* 10 August - [[Forward Operating Base Delhi Massacre]] in [[Garmsir]] village, [[Helmand Province]], [[Afghanistan]]
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* 13 May: [[Moulavi Arsala Rahmani]], a key member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council is assassinated;<ref name="Peace negotiator, NATO troops killed in Afghanistan">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/13/world/asia/afghanistan-violence/index.html|date=14 May 2012 | work=CNN | title=Peace negotiator, NATO troops killed in Afghanistan}}</ref> responsibility is claimed by the [[Mullah Dadullah Front]].<ref name="norland">Norland, Rod, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/world/asia/in-afghanistan-new-insurgent-group-emerges.html In Afghanistan, New Group Begins Campaign of Terror]", ''[[The New York Times]]'', 19 May 2012.</ref>
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* 28 August - Operation Helmand Viper has occurred in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan


==June==
===September===
* 18 September - Operations with Afghan troops were restricting following a number of [[Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan#"Green-on-blue" attacks hampering handover|attacks by rogue Afghan troops or police]], or insurgents dressed as such.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19632779 |title=Nato curbs Afghan joint patrols over 'insider' attacks |publisher=BBC |date=18 September 2012 |accessdate=25 January 2014}}</ref>
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* 2 June: SAS and US Delta force conduct joint operation which successfully rescues 5 foreign aid workers from a gang of insurgents in Shahr-e-Bozorg district near the Afghan - Tajikistan border.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153620/SAS-swoop-Afghan-insurgents-breathtaking-rescue-British-aid-worker-kidnapped-month.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Ian | last=Garland | date=2 June 2012}}</ref> SAS and Delta Force arrived by helicopter and took part in "long march" to a cave where the 5 aid workerswere being held in a maze of caves. The two teams then engaged insurgents in a firefight and overpowered the heavily armed kidnappers, and the hostages were rescued in the cave assaulted by the SAS. 11 insurgents were killed in the assault and there were no SAS fatalities or injuries.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/how-the-sas-freed-hostages-from-taliban-caves-20120603-1zq1s.html | work=The Sydney Morning Herald | title=How the SAS freed hostages from Taliban caves}}</ref>


==July==
===October===
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* October 1 - A suicide attack killed 3 NATO soldiers, 4 Afghan policemen and 7 civilians. The blast also wounded 37 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/01/us-afghanistan-blast-idUSBRE89007Q20121001|title=At least 14 killed in suicide attack on NATO patrol in Afghanistan|work=Reuters|accessdate=23 November 2014}}</ref>
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*On 30 July 2012, a bomb placed inside a mosque exploded in Tarinkot city, the provincial capital for Uruzgan province, during the morning prayer. The mullah of the mosque and the provincial judge, was killed and four other people present there were injured.<ref>{{cite news|title=Judge killed in Kandahar mosque explosion|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article3703202.ece|accessdate=3 August 2012|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=30 July 2012|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
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* October 13 - A suicide bomber killed 2 US intelligence officers and 4 afghan officials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rt.com/usa/us-intelligence-killed-afghanistan-659/|title=Two US intelligence officers killed in Afghan suicide bombing|publisher=|accessdate=23 November 2014}}</ref>


==August==
===November===
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* November 23 - A suicide bomber killed 3 civilians and wounded 90 people including NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/23/afghanistan-wardak-province-suicide-bombing_n_2176568.html|title=Afghanistan: Wardak Province Suicide Bombing Injures At Least 40, Officials Say|work=The Huffington Post|accessdate=23 November 2014}}</ref>
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* 10 August: [[Forward Operating Base Delhi Massacre]] in [[Garmsir]] village, [[Helmand Province]], [[Afghanistan]]
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* 28 August: Operation Helmand Viper has occurred in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan


==September==
===December===
*Operations with Afghan troops were restricting following a number of [[Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan#"Green-on-blue" attacks hampering handover|attacks by rogue Afghan troops or police]], or insurgents dressed as such.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19632779 |title=Nato curbs Afghan joint patrols over 'insider' attacks |publisher=BBC |date=18 September 2012 |accessdate=25 January 2014}}</ref>
* December 2 - A Taliban attack on a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan killed 3 Afghan soldiers and wounded a number of NATO soldiers. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/02/taliban-attack-nato-airbase-afghanistan|title=Taliban attack Nato airbase in Afghanistan|author=Emma Graham-Harrison|work=the Guardian|accessdate=23 November 2014}}</ref>

==October==
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*On October 1 a suicide attack killed 3 NATO soldiers, 4 afghan policemen and 7 civilians. The blast also wounded 37 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/01/us-afghanistan-blast-idUSBRE89007Q20121001|title=At least 14 killed in suicide attack on NATO patrol in Afghanistan|work=Reuters|accessdate=23 November 2014}}</ref>
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*On October 13 a suicide bomber killed 2 US intelligence officers and 4 afghan officials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rt.com/usa/us-intelligence-killed-afghanistan-659/|title=Two US intelligence officers killed in Afghan suicide bombing|publisher=|accessdate=23 November 2014}}</ref>

==November==
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*On November 23 a suicide bomber killed 3 civilians and wounded 90 people including NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/23/afghanistan-wardak-province-suicide-bombing_n_2176568.html|title=Afghanistan: Wardak Province Suicide Bombing Injures At Least 40, Officials Say|work=The Huffington Post|accessdate=23 November 2014}}</ref>

==December==
*On December 2 a Taliban attack on a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan killed 3 Afghan soldiers and wounded a number of NATO soldiers. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/02/taliban-attack-nato-airbase-afghanistan|title=Taliban attack Nato airbase in Afghanistan|author=Emma Graham-Harrison|work=the Guardian|accessdate=23 November 2014}}</ref>


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Events from the year 2012 in Afghanistan

Events

January

  • January 1 - President Hamid Karzai said police will arrest members of a family accused of torturing and illegally detaining their son’s teenage wife Sahar Gul for the past six months while trying to force her into a life of crime, and that whoever used violence against the 15-year-old in northeastern Baghlan Province must be punished.[1]
  • January 3 - War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
    • A suicide bomber kills four civilians and a police officer in Kandahar.
    • At least twelve people are killed in three bombing attacks in southern Afghanistan.
  • January 20 - Taliban fighters in Afghanistan were enraged by a video which shows U.S. marines urinating on three corpses, believed to be insurgents, and some said they did not understand their leadership's relatively measured response to the tape; meanwhile U.S. General John R. Allen, who commands international troops in Afghanistan, accused the Taliban's one-eyed leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, of having "lost all control" of his frontline fighters after several suicide bombings in the restive south killed almost 20 people, mostly civilians.[2]
  • January 21 - French Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said the four French soldiers killed and 16 wounded at the Gwan military unit in Kapisa Province, eastern Afghanistan, were shot by Taliban "infiltrated for a long time" in the ranks of the Afghan army; the killings prompted France to suspend work with Afghan counterparts and consider an earlier timeline for withdrawal.[3] Subsequently, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, accompanied by Hamid Karzai, announced that French forces would withdraw from Afghanistan a year ahead of schedule, in 2013, and that France would urge other NATO countries to do the same.[4] Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Defense identified six Marines who were killed in Afghanistan when their helicopter crashed; the Taliban claimed credit but there was no report of enemy activity in the area.[5]
  • January 21 - America's special envoy to the region Marc Grossman talked peace and reconciliation with Hamid Karzai in Kabul, though the Afghan president made it clear that Afghans should be in the driver's seat; Grossman will meet again with Karzai in discussions aimed at achieving a peaceful resolution to conflict with Taliban insurgents.[6] Hours before the meeting, Karzai said he personally held peace talks recently with the insurgent faction Hizb-i-Islami, appearing to assert his own role in a U.S.-led bid for negotiations to end the country's decade-long war.[7]
  • January 31 - An Afghan woman was killed by her husband and mother-in-law 3 months after giving birth to her third daughter after not producing a son.

February

  • February 1 - War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
    • The London Times reports that a secret NATO report claims that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is set to regain control over Afghanistan after international forces withdraw from the country.
    • Pakistan Air Force jets bomb militant positions in the Orakzai and Kurram Agency areas near the border with Afghanistan with claims that 31 alleged insurgents were killed.
  • February 4 - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan estimates that civilian deaths in the war in Afghanistan rose to a record level in 2011 of 3021 with insurgents responsible for most of the deaths.
  • February 10 - The United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta tells the Marine Corps to re-investigate and take appropriate action against snipers who posed with a logo resembling that of the Nazi Schutzstaffel in Afghanistan.
  • February 21 - US General John R. Allen, the head of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan commissions an inquiry into allegations that Qurans were burnt at an American Air Force base as Afghans protest.
  • February 22 - 2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests
    • Hundreds of Afghans hold violent protests against the alleged burning of Qurans at the Bagram Airbase north of Kabul.
    • The United States Embassy in Kabul goes into lockdown as a result of the protests.

March

  • March 4 - The burning of Qurans at a NATO base in Afghanistan advanced the Pakistani-controlled Taliban's cause and any repeat of similar "negligence" by Western forces would be disastrous, according to the Afghan army chief of staff; "The enemy (Taliban) will enlarge it and make use of it in such a way to instigate everybody," General Sher Mohammad Karimi said in an interview.[8]
  • March 11 -An American soldier left his base and went from house to house in Alokozai and Barakzai in Kandahar Province, killing 17 people in their homes, Afghan officials told CNN; the dead include nine children and three women, plus five wounded, leading Hamid Karzai to say "The murdering of innocent people intentionally by an American soldier is an act of terror that is unforgivable." ISAF commander Gen. John R. Allen said the "deeply appalling incident in no way represents the values of ISAF and coalition troops or the abiding respect we feel for the Afghan people."[9]
  • March - Afghans "have run out of patience" with foreign troops, the country's MPs have warned, after a US soldier killed 16 Afghan civilians. The strongly-worded resolution came as US officials issued an alert, fearing reprisals after the Kandahar rampage. Nine children were among those killed. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the act was "unforgivable" and Taliban militants have vowed revenge. The soldier is being questioned. Nato has promised to deliver justice. The killings could further fuel calls for a more rapid withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. They come amid already high anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan following the burning of Quran at a Nato base in Kabul last month. US officials have repeatedly apologised for that incident.

April

  • April - A suicide bomber kills at least 12 people and injures many more in Afghanistan's Faryab province.
  • 11 April - Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised the possibility to hold presidential elections in 2013, instead of 2014 as scheduled.[10] He issued the concern that having the complete security handover and a presidential election take place in one and the same year could be a problem. Karzai said, "This is a question that I've had and I've raised it in my inner circle. I've not had a final decision yet, but it will not be soon."[10]
  • 15 April - April 2012 Afghanistan attacks

May

June

  • 2 June - SAS and US Delta force conduct joint operation which successfully rescues 5 foreign aid workers from a gang of insurgents in Shahr-e-Bozorg district near the Afghan - Tajikistan border.[13] SAS and Delta Force arrived by helicopter and took part in "long march" to a cave where the 5 aid workerswere being held in a maze of caves. The two teams then engaged insurgents in a firefight and overpowered the heavily armed kidnappers, and the hostages were rescued in the cave assaulted by the SAS. 11 insurgents were killed in the assault and there were no SAS fatalities or injuries.[14]

July

  • 30 July - A bomb placed inside a mosque exploded in Tarinkot city, the provincial capital for Uruzgan province, during the morning prayer. The mullah of the mosque and the provincial judge, was killed and four other people present there were injured.[15]

August

September

October

  • October 1 - A suicide attack killed 3 NATO soldiers, 4 Afghan policemen and 7 civilians. The blast also wounded 37 people.[17]
  • October 13 - A suicide bomber killed 2 US intelligence officers and 4 afghan officials.[18]

November

  • November 23 - A suicide bomber killed 3 civilians and wounded 90 people including NATO soldiers in eastern Afghanistan.[19]

December

  • December 2 - A Taliban attack on a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan killed 3 Afghan soldiers and wounded a number of NATO soldiers. [20]

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  19. ^ "Afghanistan: Wardak Province Suicide Bombing Injures At Least 40, Officials Say". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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