and an insurgent-run prison in Shindand district, Herat Province, killed 16 Taliban militants were killed, between at least 13 and 18 civilians were also killed and seven other civilians were wounded, 19 military and civilian inmates escaped the prison. August 29/30 – A US airstrike that was targeting Taliban insurgents occupying a civilian house in Dasht e Barai, Logar Province, killed at least 11 civilians. September September 1 – The US 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron carried out a combat airdrop to ground forces in Afghanistan, the first in more than two years. September 5 – Two Red Cross workers kidnapped by gunmen in February were released. September 11 – Five US troops and a NATO servicemember were lightly wounded when their convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber using a VBIED near the village of Qal'eh-ye Musa Bala in Parwan Province. September 13 – At least three people were killed in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint at the Kabul International Cricket Stadium during a T20 match. September 14 – A Finnish aid worker who was working for Operation Mercy (a Swedish aid group), who was kidnapped by gunmen who stormed an international guest house in Kabul in May was freed. September 15 – A car carrying explosives attacked a convoy in Kandahar Province killing 1 Romanian soldier and wounding two more. September 27 – As US defence secretary James Mattis and NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg were visiting Afghan officials in Kabul, Taliban militants attacked Camp Sullivan (a US embassy compound near Kabul International Airport) with RPGs or mortars-setting a weapons depot on fire which triggered explosions, the militants also attacked three military entrances to the airport with small arms. At least five civilians were wounded, two US, one Afghan military aircraft and a civilian plane were reportedly damaged. September 29 – A suicide bomber blew himself up near one of the biggest Shia centers in Kabul, where Ashura was being commemorated. The attack left 6 people dead. October October 1 – An Afghan Air Force airstrike on a checkpoint in Gereshk, Helmand Province, accidentally killed ten and wounded a further nine members of the Sangoryan militia - a security force that wear local clothing to blend into areas where the Taliban are active. October 12 – A US drone strike in Kunar Province killed 14 ISIL-KP terrorists, the spokesman for the provincial governor said the strike targeted a