2013 in Afghanistan

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The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Afghanistan.

Events

January

• January 6 - Suicide bombers kill four in an attack in Spin Boldak.
• January 16 - The Afghan National Directorate of Security headquarters in Kabul are attacked by a team of suicide bombers, leaving a security guard dead and 17 others injured.
• January 26 - A suicide bombing at a market in Kunduz kills at least ten people and wounds up to twenty others.
• January 27 - At least twenty members of the Afghan National Police have been killed in bomb attacks over the past day with eight police officers killed in the latest attack in Kandahar.

February

• February 10 - American general Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. takes over command of NATO forces in Afghanistan, replacing John R. Allen.
• February 13 - Afghan officials say that a NATO airstrike in the Kunar Province kills 10 civilians and injures more including 3 children.
• February 24 - War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
  • Two guards and an Afghan police officer are killed in coordinated suicide bombing attacks in Jalalabad and Logar Province in eastern Afghanistan, while a third such attack on the National Directorate of Security in Kabul is foiled.
  • President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai orders the United States to leave Wardak province amid allegations of torture associated with US special forces.
• February 27 - Taliban insurgents kill 17 Afghan government-affiliated militia personnel in an overnight attack in Andar District of eastern Ghazni Province.

March

• March 9 - At least 19 people are killed by two suicide bombings in Kabul, and in Khost Province, as Chuck Hagel, the United States Secretary of Defense, visits the city.
• March 10 - President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai alleges that the U.S. armed forces are collaborating in some way with the Afghan Taliban in an effort to ensure that some troops remain after the scheduled 2014 pullout.
• March 11 - Two US and three Afghan soldiers are killed in Wardak Province in the latest insider attack against coalition forces. In a separate incident, two Afghan civilians are shot dead by American soldiers after failing to stop at a checkpoint near Kabul.
• March 11 - Five U.S. service members are killed after a helicopter crash during a rainstorm in Daman district of Kandahar Province.
• March 13 - A suicide bomber kills 10 spectators, including the district police chief, during a local gaming event in Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan.
• March 25 - The United States agrees to hand over Bagram Jail, its main detention facility in Afghanistan, to the country's government.
• March 25 - United States Secretary of State John Kerry meets with the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai to talk about the two countries' strained relations.
• March 26 - War in Afghanistan (2001-present)
  • Australia announces that it will be closing its base in Tarinkot in Urozgan Province, with the majority of troops returning home by the end of this year.
  • A suicide attack on a police station in Jalalabad, kills five police officers while seven attackers die.
  • One British soldier is killed and nine are wounded by Taliban insurgents in an attack on a patrol base with a truck bomb and small arms fire in Helmand Province, Nad Ali District.
• March 26 - The Arab League summit begins in Qatar, Doha, with the Syria conflict and possible talks between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban among the key issues.
• March 31 - President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai meets with Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, to discuss plans for the Taliban to open an office in Doha in order to help solve the conflict in Afghanistan.