2007 in Afghanistan - August

August

• August 4: Ten pro-Taliban militants and four Pakistan Army soldiers are killed in a clash in North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border. In another incident, a suicide car bomber kills six in Parachinar, North West Frontier Province in Pakistan.

• August 5: The President of the United States George W. Bush meets with the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai at Camp David to discuss the security of Afghanistan.

• August 7: The Taliban attacks Firebase Anaconda in Uruzgan province but is repulsed by a joint force of Afghan fighters and United States Army forces with 20 militants killed.

• August 7: Bangladesh security officials arrest 24 suspected militants at Shahjalal International Airport en route to Kabul, Afghanistan.

• August 9: The President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf pulls out of a meeting with the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai and tribal leaders in Kabul over fighting the Taliban. He is also resisting pressure to institute a state of emergency, insisting that the planned parliamentary election in October must proceed as scheduled.

• August 11:
  • The Taliban attacks Firebase Anaconda in Uruzgan province for the third time in a week suffering casualties. The Taliban also launches unsuccessful attacks in Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
  • The Taliban claims to have released two South Korean hostages but local and national officials cannot confirm the claims.

• August 12: A clash between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in Kandahar province results in nine militants dead with five police dying in a bomb.

• August 14: A Polish soldier is killed by Taliban near Gardez, Afghanistan. It is the first Polish casualty in the War in Afghanistan.

• August 14: The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Afghanistan on the first leg of a Central Asian tour before visiting the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting in Bishkek.

• August 15:
  • Three Germans are killed by a bomb attack near Kabul.
  • United States and Afghan forces start a new offensive in Tora Bora.

• August 16: Eight civilians including a pregnant women and a baby died when Polish soldiers shelled the village of Nangar Khel where a wedding celebration was taking place. Seven Polish soldiers have been charged with war crimes for allegedly opened fire in revenge.

• August 17 A dozen Taliban die in an attempted ambush of a joint patrol of Afghan police and Coalition troops in Helmand province.

• August 18:
  • A suicide bomber kills at least 15 people in the southern Kandahar province.
  • A female German aid worker is taken captive at gunpoint in Kabul.

• August 19: A German woman taken hostage yesterday in Kabul, Afghanistan is found during a police raid on a house. Multiple abductors arrested.

• August 22:
  • Two Canadian Army soldiers are killed and a Radio Canada journalist injured in an explosion.
  • A German engineer kidnapped by the Taliban pleads for help on Afghan television.

• August 24: Three British Army soldiers die in Afghanistan in a suspected friendly fire incident.

• August 24: At least four Pakistan Army soldiers die in a suicide bomber attack on a military convoy near Miranshah, the main city of North Waziristan near the Afghan border.

• August 28: At least 100 Taliban fighters and one Afghan National Army soldier were killed in several skirmishes in Shah Wali Kot district in Kandahar province.

• August 30: 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan: The Taliban releases the remaining South Korean hostages.

• August 30: Waziristan War: Scores of Pakistani soldiers have gone missing near the Afghanistan border, amid claims from pro-Taleban militants that they have kidnapped the troops.

• August 31:
  • At least two people are killed and ten others injured by a suicide bomb at the Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan.
  • At least ten civilians are killed and several more injured in Kunar Province as Taliban rockets aimed at a US military base hit a nearby village.
  • Nearly two dozen Afghan militants die in heavy fighting in Helmand province.