Kabul province, Afghanistan: events and estimated deaths in August 2025
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UCDP recorded 3 events of organized violence in Kabul province, Afghanistan in August 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 0. The low estimate is 0 and the high estimate is 5. The count for July 2025 was 3 events.
The count for August 2024 was 9 events. The change from August 2024 to August 2025 is down 67 percent. Among the 17 months with a report for Kabul province, Afghanistan, August 2025 has the 8th highest count of events. Kabul province, Afghanistan holds 18 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Afghanistan in August 2025. In August 2024, the share was 47 percent.
The report of the country for this month: Afghanistan, August 2025.
Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.
An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date
UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .
This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.
The pages give counts and their sources. They give no travel, security or safety advice. A count of events is not a measure of danger.
Events
The table lists each event of the month. The CSV file of Afghanistan has each event.
| Date | Place | Sides, as UCDP writes them | Type of violence | Estimated deaths | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2025 | Kabul district, Kabul province | Government of Afghanistan; AFF | State-based | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 27 Aug 2025 | Kabul district, Kabul province | Government of Afghanistan; AFF | State-based | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 29 Aug 2025 | Kabul district, Kabul province | Government of Afghanistan; AFF | State-based | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Actors, as UCDP names them
Names as UCDP writes them.
| Name, as UCDP writes it | Events | Estimated deaths in these events |
|---|---|---|
| AFF | 3 | 0 |
| Government of Afghanistan | 3 | 0 |
An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.
All months
| Month | Events | Estimated deaths | Dataset |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 3P | 2P | Candidate Events |
| August 2026 | 3P | 1P | Candidate Events |
| June 2026 | 1P | 0P | Candidate Events |
| March 2026 | 2P | 273P | Candidate Events |
| January 2026 | 1P | 8P | Candidate Events |
| October 2025 | 4 | 11 | GED |
| August 2025 | 3 | 0 | GED |
| July 2025 | 3 | 1 | GED |
| June 2025 | 1 | 2 | GED |
| March 2025 | 4 | 0 | GED |
| February 2025 | 2 | 4 | GED |
| January 2025 | 1 | 0 | GED |
| December 2024 | 5 | 9 | GED |
| November 2024 | 5 | 2 | GED |
| October 2024 | 5 | 1 | GED |
| September 2024 | 6 | 9 | GED |
| August 2024 | 9 | 2 | GED |
P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.
Cite this page
ConflictStats. Kabul province, Afghanistan: events and estimated deaths in August 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/afghanistan/kabul-province/month/2025-08/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .
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