wounded 20 people outside a bank in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province. February 16 – Pakistan closed the Torkham and Chaman crossing in response to series of terrorist attacks across Pakistan. February 23 – The Taliban successfully take over the entirety of Shorabak District, Kandahar Province. February 24 – 10 police officers and a civilian in an ambush by IS militants in Zawzjan province. February 26 – A U.S. drone strike killed the senior Taliban commander for Kunduz province, Mullah Abdul Salam Akhund, and eight other militants. March March 1 – The Taliban attacked police, military and intelligence targets in Kabul, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens. March 7 – Pakistan temporarily reopened the Torkham and Chaman crossings with Afghanistan to allow visitors with valid visas on both sides to return home. March 8 – Four ISIL-KP militants attacked Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital, the largest military hospital in Kabul, killing more than 30 people and injuring more than 50. Afghan Commandos killed all four attackers after several hours of fighting. March 12 – At least 31 Taliban militants were killed and nine wounded during the past 24 hours in a military operation carried out in Bulan village in PD3 of Lashkargah city, officials said. March 13 – A suicide bomber crashed a vehicle full of explosives into a packed commuter minibus in Kabul, killing at least one and injuring at least 19 people. March 17 – A suicide truck bomber attacked a military checkpoint in Khost province, killing an Afghan soldier and wounding ten more, after the blast, two Taliban gunmen opened fire at the troops, triggering a shootout that left both militants dead. Elsewhere in outside a mosque in eastern Nangarhar province the brother of a local religious affairs director who had been targeted for assassination. March 19 – Three American troops were wounded after an Afghan soldier opened fire on them at Camp Shorabak air base in Helmand province. Also that day, a US airstrike killed al Qaeda leader Qari Yasin Paktika Province, Yasin had ties to the TTP and was responsible for the 2008 Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing and the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team. Two Taliban commanders were also killed in apparent US drone strike in Barmal district and another ten insurgents were killed in a separate drone strike in Dand-e Patan district, Paktika province. A Green Beret from 1st