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Six Afghan civilians have been wounded in a clash between rival local militia factions in the northern province of Kunduz, a government official said.
Afghan officials say at least 13 militants, including five Islamic State (IS) fighters were killed in air strikes across the country in the past 24 hours.
Afghan officials said 10 security forces were killed by Taliban militants in an attack on a checkpoint at the Salma Dam in the western part of the country.
Thirty-four people have been killed and 58 others wounded in a car bomb outside a bank in the southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor’s office said.
Authorities in Kabul have demolished a tent erected to protest insecurity in the Afghan capital, sparking street clashes that left at least one demonstrator dead.
Afghan security forces have recaptured a number of villages in a key district in northern Kunduz Province after a week of fierce fighting with Taliban militants, local officials say.
Reports from Afghanistan say at least seven people have been killed in an explosion in the western city of Herat.
Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani has called for the dismissal of the country's top security chiefs after a wave of deadly attacks in the capital, Kabul.
Afghanistan's intelligence agency says it has arrested a would-be suicide bomber who planned to detonate his explosives at the funeral of an antigovernment protester in Kabul.
Several people have been killed in three explosions in Kabul near the funeral of an Afghan senator's son, one of five victims of deadly clashes between police and protesters a day earlier, witnesses and a security official say.
Authorities in Afghanistan say four people have been killed amid confrontations between police and protesters demanding the resignation of President Ashraf Ghani's government two days after a deadly truck-bomb blast in Kabul.
One day after a massive truck bombing that killed at least 90 people and wounded hundreds in Kabul's diplomatic quarter, no group has stepped forward to claim responsibility.
Afghan authorities have arrested eight people, including the son of a lawmaker, after a rock-throwing crowd forced a plane to return abruptly to Kabul to pick up two lawmakers who had missed their flight.
Afghan officials say militants have attacked an army base in the southern province of Kandahar, killing at least 10 soldiers and wounding nine.
Controversial Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has left the country and flown to Turkey, officials say.
Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami group said on May 11 that it will not hand over its weapons, despite pledging to do so as part of a peace deal signed with the government in September.
Hundreds of Afghans have staged a protest against Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, hours after the notorious militant leader held a large rally in Kabul to mark his return to the country under a peace deal with the government.
Notorious former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has addressed a large rally in Kabul, a day after he returned to the capital following more than two decades in self-imposed exile.
Notorious former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has called on his Taliban "brothers" to end their insurgency and offered to mediate talks between the militant group and with the government.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of Afghanistan's most notorious warlords and a former prime minister, has returned to the capital, Kabul, months after signing a peace deal with the government.
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