Timeline of Afghan history
- Afghan interim vice-president Nehmatullah Shahrani survived an assassination attempt when a remote controlled roadside bomb exploded next to his convoy in Kunduz province.
- In Paktika province, Afghanistan, two U.S. soldiers were killed and two were wounded along with six Afghan National Army troops in a clash with rebels near the Pakistani border.
- U.S. forces killed a rebel during an exchange of fire in the Deh Chopan district of Uruzgan province, Afghanistan.
- In Zabul province, Afghanistan, a U.S. air attack killed six rebels after rebels shot a rocket at a U.S. UH-60 Black Hawk.
- Two U.S. soldiers (Robert Goodwin and Tony Olaes) were wounded when a homemade bomb destroyed their Humvee in the Shinkay district of Zabul province. The soldiers were flown to Germany for treatment.
- Three rockets were fired at the U.S. base in Paktika, Afghanistan, landing within 100 yards of the compound.
- A roadside bomb attack on a U.S. convoy in Jalalabad, Afghanistan caused no injuries.
- U.S. soldier, Wesley Wells, age 21, died when his security patrol was ambushed by rebels in Khost province, Afghanistan.
- A rocket fired on but missed a helicopter carrying Afghan interim president Hamid Karzai as it prepared for landing in Gardez, where Karzai planned to open a school. The helicopter returned to Kabul without touching down in Gardez. Police later captured three suspects who confessed to firing the rockets.
- In Herat, Afghanistan, two men in a four-wheel-drive vehicle shot and killed a militiaman loyal to his ousted predecessor, Ismail Khan.
- In Herat, Afghanistan, hundreds of demonstrators, protesting the previous day's dismisal of Ismail Khan, ransacked and set fires at United Nations offices. At least seven people died and dozens more wounded. Later in the day, Khan appeared on television and called for his supporters to exercise restraint. Interim president Hamid Karzai chose Mohammed Khair Khuwa to replace Kahn.
- In Kabul, Afghanistan, 363 Pakistanis jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban were released from the Pul-e-Charki jail and allowed to go home.
- An estimated 40 rebels attacked U.S.-led coalition soldiers, prompting two AH-64 Apache helicopters to open fire on the fighters, killing 22.
- Rebel gunmen ambushed a U.S.-coalition patrol near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
- In Herat, Afghanistan, dozens of supporters of Ismail Khan gathered outside his home after he was replaced as provincial governor, and began chanting slogans against the United States and Afghan president Hamid Karzai. Shots were fired by U.S. and Afghan security forces after their convoy was pelted with stones. Two people were killed, four injured and four arrested.
- In northern Afghanistan, ten humanitarian workers were injured in an attack by demonstrators.
- A jeep packed with explosives detonated at a roadside in the Jaikhoja area of Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing one person and seriously injuring two others in a passing taxi.
- A U.S. patrol in the Khost province, Afghanistan was fired on by rebels travelling in a pickup truck, and a U.S. helicopter fired back, destroying the truck and killing one rebel.
- At a security checkpoint in Helmand province, Afghanistan, three rebels were killed, and five wounded in a clash.
- The Asian Development Bank granted US$750,000 to help Afghanistan improve its gas supply. The money was slated to draw a plan to establish an independent regulator for gas supply and help it come up with laws and regulations.
- Rebels fired up to four rockets over a U.S.-led civil-military base in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, killing one Afghan National Army soldier and injuring another four.
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