Afghanistan Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Afghanistan. The data is structured into country-year and country-month summaries, with the most recent update recorded in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Comparing annual civilian-targeting rates to assess changes in conflict intensity
• Monitoring the frequency of demonstrations to track civil unrest over time

Strengths

• Produced by ACLED, a primary authority in global conflict monitoring
• Weekly update frequency provides high temporal relevance
• Distinguishes between civilian-targeting and general political violence

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular geospatial mapping of specific incidents
• Full event-level data requires external registration and API access
• Restricted under a non-standard hdx-other license

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Afghanistan