Topic summary
Fall of Herat
Taliban
Afghanistan Abdul-Qayum Rauhani(Taliban commander)
Abdul-Karim Jihadyar(Taliban commander)
Abdul-Aziz Ansari(Taliban commander)
(Former Governor of Herat)
Abdul Sabur Qaneh
(Governor of Herat)
Abdul Rahman Rahman
(Deputy interior minister of Herat)
Kamran Alizai
(Herat Provincial Council Chairman)
Hasib Sediqi
(NDS Chief for Herat)
Khyal Nabi Ahmadzai
(207th Corps Commander)
Colonel Abdul Hamid †
(Commander of 1st regiment)
Colonel Mohammad Nasir Alizai
(Commander of a Commando unit)
Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF)
- 207th Corps
- 1st Regiment
- Commando Corps
Public uprising forces
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 Fall of Herat was a battle and subsequent capture of Herat by Taliban fighters. The attack on the city started around 28 July 2021, and ended in Taliban victory by 13 August of the same year. Several of the surrounding districts fell to the Taliban from June to mid-July, leaving only the city and two other districts in government hands by 10 July. The border crossings in Herat Province were captured by the Taliban on 9 July, raising prices of goods inside the city. Ismail Khan, former governor and warlord, led a public uprising force to assist the Afghan National Security Forces in defending the city.
After fighting started in the city around the end of July, the Taliban launched a significant attack on 30 July, shutting down the Herat International Airport and temporarily taking the road leading to the airport. A few days later, some Heratis chanted "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) in support of the government forces. The Taliban insurgents launched another significant attack on the city on 12 August, taking the city by night after a two-week siege. Fall of the city forced Ismail Khan and other top government officials to retreat to the provincial airport and the army corps headquarters outside the city. The next day Ismail Khan and other senior security officials including a deputy for the interior ministry, an army corps commander and an intelligence director, along with thousands of government forces, surrendered to the Taliban.