Timeline Major operations Airstrikes Major insurgent attacks 2002 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Massacres Other On 31 May 2016, the Taliban set up a fake military checkpoint along the Kunduz–Takhar Highway, near Arzaq Angor Bagh in the Kunduz Province of Afghanistan, and deployed approximately 250 militants there after disguising them as Afghan government officials.

They subsequently kidnapped between 220 and 260 civilians coming through the checkpoint and held them as hostages, prompting the assembly of a rescue effort by the Afghan Armed Forces.

The exact death toll is unknown, but it is believed that most of the hostages were released or rescued.

Most of the passengers were eventually released, but at least seventeen were killed, and at least eighteen (some sources say "around 20") are still being held hostage.

Some of the hostages were executed on the spot, and some were killed after they were transported to the village of Omarkhel in Char Dara.