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U.S. and Taliban negotiators have held a new round of talks in Qatar to try to put an end to the war in Afghanistan, amid continued attacks by the militant group on Afghan officials and security forces.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has arrived on a two-day visit to Pakistan aimed at strengthening ties between the two countries.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he hopes for a peace deal with the Taliban "before September 1,” as he spoke to reporters in Kabul during an unannounced visit to the Afghan capital on June 25.
The Taliban have issued a threat to Afghan media, saying journalists will be targeted unless news outlets stop broadcasting what they describe as government propaganda against the militants.
The U.S. envoy seeking a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban has said Washington is seeking a “comprehensive peace agreement, not a withdrawal agreement” in its talks with the Taliban.
Afghan special forces have rescued 44 people from a Taliban-run prison in the northern province of Baghlan, local officials say.
Six civilians have been killed in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar after a roadside bomb ripped through the vehicle they were travelling in, officials say.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called for the complete withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan at a meeting in Moscow attended by a Taliban delegation.
Afghan police say gunmen have shot dead seven members of one family in the capital, Kabul.
Ten people were wounded when a sticky bomb attached to a minibus carrying government workers detonated in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
Afghan police have arrested more than 40 people in the capital, Kabul, for celebratory gunfire that followed the Afghan national cricket team’s victory over Pakistan in a warm-up match for the Cricket World Cup on May 24.
An air strike has mistakenly killed at least nine Afghan police officers, including a commander, during a battle with the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand, local officials say.
The United Nations' Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed “grave concern” about the impact on civilians from an "increase in violence around the country" during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Afghan officials say prominent former television journalist Mena Mangal has been shot dead in Kabul.
Five-year-old Sayeed Abdul Rahman was just 8 months old when he was shot during fighting between Afghan forces and Taliban militants. His leg was subsequently amputated. Now, thanks to support from a Red Cross hospital in Kabul, he can walk and dance on a prosthetic limb.
The death toll from a Taliban attack on the offices of an international aid group in Kabul has been raised to at least nine people, Afghan officials say.
Taliban militants have attacked the offices of an international aid group in central Kabul, killing at least five people and wounding 24, officials say.
A report by the United Nations says U.S. and Afghan government forces killed more civilians than Taliban fighters and other militants for the first time during a three-month period since the UN began keeping records on civilian casualties in 2009.
At least seven people have been killed after gunmen attacked the Communications Ministry in the center of the Afghan capital , officials say.
An explosion followed by gunfire has been reported in the center of the Afghan capital, a police spokesman tells RFE/RL.
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