attack on the base. July 11 – A US air strike on an ISIL-KP headquarters in Kunar province killed Abu Sayed, the leader of ISIL-KP, along with other ISIL-KP terrorist. July 17 – Afghan security forces, supported by a US Marine unit and numerous US airstrikes, retake Nawa District in Helmand Province from the Taliban. July 24 - 24 July 2017 Kabul bombing July 31 - 2017 attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul August August 1 - August 2017 Herat mosque attack August 2 – A Taliban VBIED suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kandahar Province killed two US soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 504th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division and wounded four US troops. August 3–5 – The Taliban and ISIL-KP militants carried out a joint attack on the village of Mirzawalang in Sayyad district, Sar-e Pol Province, battling with local Afghan police forces for nearly 48 hours, killing over 50 civilians(mostly Shiite Hazaras) and 18 local police and 28 local militia, whilst 10 militants were killed and a further 12 injured. A spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of the Interior, said that the government is planning an operation to retake the area from militants. Also that day, a Taliban suicide bomb attack on a joint NATO-ANA patrol in the Qarabagh district, near Bagram Air Field, Kabul province, one Georgian soldier and wounded three more, as well as wounding two American servicemembers, an afghan interpreter and five others, two Afghan civilians were also killed. August 9 – The Taliban released 235 villagers held since the insurgents seized control of Mirzawalang in Sar-e-Pul province. Also that day, gunmen opened fire on a group of four female employees at Bagram Air Field, killing one and wounding a second woman. August 10 – A US air strike in Kunar province killed Abdul Rahman, ISIL-KP provincial emir for Kunar Province, and three other senior ISIL-KP terrorists. August 12 – Afghan officials claim that as many as 16 civilians were killed in a US airstrike in Nangarhar province, but US officials said only militants were killed. August 16 – A Green Beret from 19th SFG was killed by an improvised explosive device during a firefight with ISIS-K militants in Nangarhar province, several Afghan troops and an unknown number of US troops were also wounded during the firefight. August 29 – An airstrike by Afghan aircraft on a Taliban base