[1][2] While covering the War in Afghanistan, Strömberg was staying in a house in Taloqan with other Swedish journalists.
At around 2 a.m. on 26 November 2001, Aftonbladet's reporters Martin Adler and Bo Lidén were robbed by armed men (moore boys at the age 14,15 ) in uniform who had invaded the house.
[7] The Fall of Kabul on 12 November had taken place two weeks before Strömberg's murder and there was confusion and disorder as the Taliban fled.
[8] Strömberg was an early press casualty, the eighth, in the War in Afghanistan, and one in a series against Western reporters in that region.
[3] Former TV4 coworkers Johan Fredriksson and Martin Gustafsson displayed a handwritten sign on the glass doors of the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul reading "Bad News" shortly after Strömberg's death.