2024 in Afghanistan

Events in the year 2024 in Afghanistan.

Ongoing
Afghan conflict; Islamic State–Taliban conflict; Republican insurgency in Afghanistan

January

 * January 4 – A spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry of the Taliban announces the arrest of an undetermined number of women for wearing "bad hijab", in the first known crackdown on dress code since their return to power in August 2021.
 * January 20 – A chartered Dassault Falcon 10 aircraft flying from Thailand to Russia crashes in Kuf Ab District, Badakhshan Province, killing two of the six people on board.
 * January 29 – Ten collisions occur on the main highway linking Kabul and Nangarhar Province, killing 17 people and wounding ten more. Separately, fifteen people are killed during four collisions in Laghman Province, near the end of the same highway.

February

 * February 19 – A landslide in Nuristan Province buries the village of Nakre in the Tatin Valley and leaves at least 25 people dead.
 * February 20 – March 13 – At least 60 people are killed and 23 others are injured due to flooding and adverse weather conditions involving snow and rain nationwide.

March

 * March 17 – A bus traveling from Herat to Kabul collides with a motorcycle before slamming into an oil tanker along the Kandahar–Herat Highway in Grishk District, Helmand Province, killing 21 people and injuring 28.
 * March 18 – Five women and three children are killed during two Pakistani airstrikes in Khost and Paktika provinces following accusations that attacks in Pakistan were masterminded in Afghanistan, which the Taliban deny. In response, the Taliban opens fire on Pakistani troops at the border.
 * March 21 – A suicide bombing inside a bank in Kandahar kills 21 people and injures 50 others. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
 * March 31 – Nine children are killed after a landmine they discovered explodes while playing with it in Giro District, Ghazni Province.

April

 * April 12-14 – At least 33 people are killed and 27 others are injured in flash floods caused by heavy rain in 20 provinces nationwide including in Kabul.
 * April 17 – The Taliban orders the suspension of the television channels Noor TV and Barya TV for allegedly failing to “consider national and Islamic values”.
 * April 20 – One person is killed and three others are injured in a car bombing at a predominantly Hazara neighborhood in Kabul.
 * April 29 – Six people are killed after a gunman opens fire inside a Shiite mosque in Guzara District, Herat Province.

May

 * May 8 – A motorcycle bombing kills three Taliban security personnel in Faizabad, Badakhshan Province. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
 * May 10 – Between 150 to 300 people are killed during flash floods in Baghlan Province.
 * May 15 – A military Mi-17 helicopter crashes in Ghor Province, killing one person.
 * May 17:
 * Six people, including three Spanish nationals, are killed and seven others are injured in a gun attack in Bamiyan. The Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack.
 * At least 84 people are killed during flash floods in Ghor and Faryab Provinces.
 * May 21 – Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban takeover in 2021.
 * May 25 – At least 15 people are killed in flash floods in Badakhshan and Baghlan Provinces.

June

 * June 1 – At least 20 people are killed after a boat sinks at a river crossing in Momand Dara District, Nangarhar Province.

July

 * July 15 – At least 40 people are killed following a storm in Nangarhar Province.
 * July 15 – A bus traveling on the Kabul-Balkh highway overturns in Baghlan Province, killing 17 people and injuring 34 others.

Sports

 * January – Afghan cricket team in India in 2023–24
 * 25 December 2023 – 2 January 2024: Afghan cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2023–24