Here is a look at key dates since the Taliban returned to power four years ago, as United States and NATO forces withdrew from the country:
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2021
Aug. 15: The Taliban march into Kabul, returning to power after two decades as internationally backed President Ashraf Ghani flees the country.
Aug. 26: Islamic State group suicide bombers and gunmen in an attack on the crowds trying to be evacuated at Kabul’s airport.
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2022
March 23: On the day high schools are opening, the Taliban abruptly above the sixth grade to attend school.
May 7: The Taliban Virtue and Vice Ministry says women in public must wear all-encompassing robes and cover their faces It advises them to stay home unless they have important work outside the house.
Nov. 10: A comes into force. The Taliban say they imposed the ban because women allegedly disobeyed gender segregation rules or didn’t cover themselves properly.
Nov. 20: The , including alleged adulterers, in the first public flogging since their return to rule.
Dec. 8: The Taliban execute a convicted killer before hundreds of spectators, the since the takeover.
Dec. 21: The .
Dec. 24: The Taliban bar Afghan women from working with .
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2023
July 4: The Taliban down for offering allegedly like eyebrow shaping. The decision affects as many as 60,000 female entrepreneurs.
Sept. 13: The Taliban with fanfare. Months later, the Taliban their new ambassador to Beijing.
Oct. 4: Pakistan announces on foreigners living in the country illegally, including millions of Afghans.
Oct. 7: A in western Herat province kills thousands. follow, bringing further devastation to the area.
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2024
Jan. 4: The Taliban for wearing “bad hijab,” the first official dress code crackdown since they returned to power.
May 17: in Bamiyan, killing six people, including three Spanish vacationers. It’s a blow to the to woo tourists. IS claims the attack.
June 4: The leader of the United Arab Emirates facing a U.S. bounty over his involvement in deadly assaults. It highlights the growing divide on how to deal with the Taliban.
July 30: The Taliban say they staffed by diplomats from the former Western-backed government.
Aug. 13: The Taliban celebrate the of their return to power at that was once the center of Washington’s war to unseat the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks.
Aug. 21: The UAE accepts the credentials of the Taliban’s ambassador to the Gulf Arab state.
Aug. 22: Authorities in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue.
Sept. 13: IS militants area of central Afghanistan, gunning them down as they returned from visiting shrines in Iraq.
Sept. 16: The Taliban in Afghanistan, one of two countries in which the spread of the has never been stopped.
Oct. 15: Taliban run-media of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws. That same month, the southern province of Helmand from showing images of living beings.
Nov. 10: The Taliban confirm they will . The head of the country’s national environment agency says to deal with extreme weather.
Dec. 4: There is after reports that the Taliban’s leader has ordered private and public institutions to suspend medical courses for women.
Dec. 11: kills the refugee minister. , the paternal uncle of acting interior minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, is held the following day.
Dec. 24: Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan. Afghan officials say the , mostly women and children.
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2025
Jan. 22: in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism charges. The Americans later.
Jan. 24: The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor for two top Taliban officials for the .
Feb. 24: of two elderly British nationals, Peter and Barbie Reynolds.
March 5: A suspect in appears in a U.S. court following his capture in Pakistan.
March 23: on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister.
June 5: U.S. President Donald Trump from 12 countries, including Afghanistan.
July 4: Russia to officially recognize the Taliban government.
