This is a list of major incidents in Afghanistan, primarily involving Canadian forces but also some other coalition personnel operating in southeastern Afghanistan. It includes incidents where they died, were injured, where they engaged insurgents or where they may have inadvertently injured or killed Afghan civilians.

October 14, 2006: Two Canadian soldiers are killed and three others wounded in an ambush on a highway west of Kandahar city.

October 7, 2006: Trooper Mark Andrew Wilson of the Royal Canadian Dragoons of CFB Petawawa dies when the Nyala jeep in which he was riding was engulfed in an explosion. The other soldiers in the vehicle were uninjured. The incident happened in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province. The death was the 40th for military personnel in Afghanistan since 2002. A diplomat also died in January 2006.

October 3, 2006: Two Canadian soldiers were killed and five injured by an insurgent attack in the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province. The dead were identified as Sgt. Craig Gillam and Cpl. Robert Mitchell. Both were with the Royal Canadian Dragoons, based in Petawawa, Ont.

September 3, 2006: Four soldiers are killed during heavy fighting with Taliban insurgents west of Kandahar, as part of Operation Medusa. The dead are Warrant Officer Frank Robert Mellish, Warrant Officer Richard Francis Nolan,  Sgt. Shane Stachnik and Pte. William Jonathan James Cushley. All four were based in CFB Petawawa in eastern Ontario.

August 22, 2006: Cpl. David Braun, based in CFB Shilo, is killed in a suicide attack near a Canadian compound in Kandahar City.

August 11, 2006: Cpl. Andrew Eykelenboom is killed when a suicide bomber slams an explosive-laden vehicle into the convoy he is travelling in, near the Spin Boldak district of the southern Kandahar province.

August 9, 2006: Master Cpl. Jeffrey Scott Walsh is shot and killed in Afghanistan in what appears to have been an accidental discharge of a rifle from a comrade-in-arms.

August 5, 2006: Master Cpl. Raymond Arndt dies in a vehicle crash about 35 kilometres southeast of Kandahar. Arndt, a 32-year-old Peers, Alta. reservist from the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, is killed when the G-Wagon he is travelling in as part of a resupply convoy collides head-on with a civilian truck.

August 3, 2006: Four Canadian soldiers with the Edmonton-based Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry are killed in a series of attacks in Kandahar province. Another 10 soldiers are wounded. Cpl. Christopher Reid, 34, of Truro, N.S., died when the vehicle in which he was travelling got hit by a roadside bomb. Pte. Kevin Dallaire, Sgt. Vaughn Ingram, Cpl. Bryce Jeffrey Keller died in a firefight with the Taliban, who hit them with a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades.

July 22, 2006: A suicide bomber hit a coalition convoy near Kandahar City. Two Canadian soldiers died: Cpl. Francisco Gomez, 44, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton, and Cpl. Jason Patrick Warren, 29, of the Black Watch, the Royal Highland Regiment of Canada, based in Montreal. Eight other Canadian soldiers were injured.

July 9, 2006: Cpl. Anthony Boneca, a reservist from Thunder Bay, Ont. died in a firefight with the Taliban near the village of Pashmul, which troops describe as a hotbed of insurgency.

July 8, 2006: Two Canadian soldiers are wounded, one seriously, in a firefight west of Kandahar City. There was speculation they may have been hurt by fire from Afghan National Army soldiers. On the same day, a U.S.-dropped 500-lb. bomb landed very near Canadian troops. Fortunately, the ground was soft and the bomb went deeper into the ground than usual, directing the bomb's force upward. One Canadian had to be hospitalized with concussive head injuries.

July 2, 2006: A U.S. Apache attack helicopter crashes near the Kandahar airbase, killing the pilot and injuring another crew member. The helicopter was dispatched  immediately after a rocket attack on the base.

June 30, 2006: Ten people, among them two Canadian soldiers, were injured after a rocket attack on the international coalition base in Kandahar. The base had been attacked before, but this is the first time there were casualties.

June 21, 2006: Two separate bombing incidents leave six Canadian soldiers wounded, two seriously.

June 15, 2006: 11,000 British, Canadian and U.S. troops begin Operation Mountain Thrust, to be conducted across four provinces in southern Afghanistan.

June 12, 2006: Two Canadian soldiers are in serious condition after being shot and wounded in a firefight with Taliban insurgents. The battle occurred in the Panjwai district southwest of Kandahar.

June 10, 2006: Canada formally opens Forward Operating Base Martello, near El Bak and about 200 km. north of Kandahar in Shah Wali Kot district.

June 2, 2006: On the same day Canadians narrowly missed injury by a suicide bomber north of Kandahar, a Taliban spokesman warned Canadian troops to leave Afghanistan.

May 29, 2006: A traffic accident in Kabul involving U.S. military vehicles left eight dead and sparked some of the most violent demonstrations in the country's capital since the overthrowal of the Taliban in 2001.

May 25, 2006: Five soldiers are wounded during a roadside bombing near Gumbad, about 75 km. north of Kandahar. An Afghan translator was also injured. Their LAV III armoured vehicle bore the brunt of the damage.

May 23, 2006: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai calls for an investigation after U.S. commanders call in air strikes during a gun battle with Taliban fighters in a Panjwai district village during the late hours of May 21 and the early hours of May 22. At least 16 civilians died. Canadian political leaders admitted such incidents made it more difficult to win the "hearts and minds" of the Afghan people.

May 17, 2006: Capt. Nichola Goddard dies in combat during fighting in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province about 24 km. west of Kandahar city. She is the first Canadian female soldier to ever die in combat.

April 22, 2006:  Four Canadian soldiers die when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in the Gumbad region of Afghanistan, about 75 kilometres north of Kandahar. The military has identified the men as Cpl. Matthew Dinning, Bombardier Myles Mansell, Lieut. William Turner and Cpl. Randy Payne.

April 19, 2006: Two Canadian soldiers suffer minor injuries in the volatile Sangin district when insurgents attacked a troop relief convoy with a roadside bomb.

April 16, 2006: Canadian combat engineers began carving into a remote, boulder-speckled mountain pasture, establishing a new forward outpost deep in Taliban country. The base is called Forward Operating Base Martello.

April 2, 2006: Two Canadians are injured when the gun turret on their vehicle, which had been pointed to the side, is struck by a passing vehicle. The injuries were described as non-life-threatening.

March 31, 2006 : Canadian troops begin offensives deep into Taliban territory. The operation is described as Phase 2 of Operation Sola Qowel -- the Pashtun word for Peacemaker, an operation earlier in March. Part of the goal is to shore up the area where a vicious firefight occurred on March 29, leaving a Canadian soldier and nine other coalition troops dead.

March 30, 2006: A suicide attack on a Canadian-Romanian convoy on the outskirts of Kandahar left one Canadian soldier injured and five Afghan civilians wounded.

March 29, 2006: Pte. Robert Costall dies and five other Canadian soldiers are wounded in a battle at Forward Operating Base Robinson in the Sangin district of Helmand province. Eight Afghan National Army soldiers are also reported killed, with one wounded. A U.S. military medic was killed and U.S. soldier was wounded. More than 30 Taliban were reported killed in one of the fiercest firefights Canadian troops have seen in decades. Costall was Canada's first combat death in Afghanistan.

March 19, 2006: About 400 Canadian troops end a 12-day patrol. They were looking to engage Taliban insurgents in an area known as the "Bellybutton." They don't directly encounter any Taliban but do experience two attacks from IEDs (improvised explosive devices).

March 14, 2006: Canadian troops shoot and kill an Afghan man in a taxi that had ventured too close to their convoy. As compensation, the man's family asks to be moved to Canada and educated. The military reports firing warning shots in 10 incidents in the previous several months.

March 4, 2006: Capt. Trevor Greene, suffered a major head wound at a routine tribal meeting known as a shura when a teenaged Afghan struck him with an axe. His assailant was killed. Greene survived the attack. Canadian troops took fire from insurgents a few moments later. The incident occurred in the Gumbad area, about 60 km northeast of Kandahar.

March 3, 2006: A suicide bombing attack against a LAV III armoured personnel carrier injured five Canadian soldiers, one critically.

March 2, 2006: A collision between a LAV III armoured personnel carrier and an Afghan taxi would lead to the deaths of two Canadian soldiers - Cpl. Paul Davis and Master-Cpl. Timothy Wilson. Four other soldiers were injured.

Feb. 26, 2006: A Canadian soldier is wounded in a grenade attack on his convoy patrolling near the Canadian camp in Kandahar.

Feb. 19, 2006: Canadian troops exchange fire with insurgents near Gumbad, about 75 kilometres northeast of Kandahar.

Feb. 16, 2006: Two Canadian soldiers are injured in a collision between an armoured vehicle and a light truck. One soldier is transported to a military hospital in Germany for treatment.

Feb. 15, 2006: Three Canadian soldiers are injured when their vehicle rolls while on patrol near Kandahar. One soldier is airlifted to a military hospital in Germany for treatment.

Feb. 9, 2006: Four Canadian soldiers suffer minor injuries when a roadside bomb detonates near their vehicle in a joint U.S.-Canadian convoy.

Jan. 15, 2006: Canadian diplomat Glynn Berry dies and three soldiers are critically wounded when a suicide bomber attacks them about one kilometre southeast of Kandahar.

Dec. 12, 2005: Three Canadian soldiers and a foreign journalist are injured when a roadside bomb exploded under their vehicle. Their Mercedes G-Wagon armour-plated vehicle is credited with saving their lives.

Dec. 7, 2005: The Dept. of National Defence announced that three special forces soldiers with the secretive Joint Task Force 2 group had been wounded during operations in Afghanistan.

Dec. 4, 2005: Canadian soldier suffers minor injuries during an attack on his convoy in Kandahar. The attacker and one Afghan civilian died.

Nov. 24, 2005: Pte. Braun Woodfield dies and four other Canadian soldiers are wounded when their LAV III armoured personnel carrier swerved to avoid a civilian vehicle.

Oct. 12, 2005: A rocket exploded outside the Canadian ambassador's residence in Kabul, Afghanistan, leaving two local men injured.

Oct. 5, 2005: A suicide bomber leaves three Canadian soldiers slightly wounded in Kandahar. A 10-year-old Afghan boy died, along with the suicide bomber.

September 15, 2005: Two Canadian soldiers suffered minor wounds after a roadside bomb went off next to their armoured patrol in Kabul.

Jan. 27, 2004: A suicide bomber attacks a Canadian patrol in Kabul, killing Cpl. Jamie Murphy and wounding three other Canadian soldiers.

Oct. 2, 2003: Two Canadian soldiers -- Sgt. Robert Short and Cpl. Robbie Beerenfenger -- were killed when near Kabul when their Iltis jeep hit up to three anti-tank mines in a creek bed near their base.

April 17, 2002:  Four Canadian soldiers - Sgt. Marc D. Leger, Cpl. Ainsworth Dyer, Pte. Richard Green and Pte. Nathan Smith -- were killed and eight wounded near Kandahar, Afghanistan. They were on a night-time, live-fire exercise when a U.S. jet fighter pilot mistook them for enemy personnel and bombed them.