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The governor of Afghanistan's volatile Helmand Province said Iranian and Pakistanis have recently met with Taliban insurgents involved in fighting Afghan forces.
An explosion in northern Afghanistan has killed at least three people outside a game of buzkashi – a popular, traditional equestrian sport in Afghanistan and Central Asia that is similar to polo but uses a goat or calf carcass instead of a ball.
At least 13 teachers at a religious school have been abducted in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
Afghan officials say twin bombings near parliament in Kabul killed at least 38 people on January 10, while a powerful blast at a government guesthouse in southern Kandahar left at least seven dead, including five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates.
Afghan officials say at least three people were killed and nine others, including the provincial governor and a foreign ambassador, were injured in a blast at a government guesthouse in the southern province of Kandahar late on January 10.
Two explosions have rocked the area near the parliament building in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The Taliban has denied responsibility for the killing of eight coal miners in northern Afghanistan.
An Afghan official says unidentified gunmen have killed 13 coal miners in northern Afghanistan.
Sikh and Hindu communities in Afghanistan have demanded authorities investigate attacks against members of their communities, after a local Sikh community leader was shot dead in the northern city of Kunduz.
Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has refused a summons by the country's attorney general over allegations that he and his bodyguards assaulted and abducted a political rival at a sports event in northern Afghanistan last month.
A former governor has accused Afghan First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum of ordering his rape with an assault rifle and other forms of torture after he was abducted by Dostum and gunmen loyal to the ex-warlord.
A top general in the Afghan National Army has been killed and at least seven other officials have been injured in a military helicopter crash in Afghanistan's e northwestern province of Badghis.
Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has detonated his explosives inside a Shi’ite mosque in Kabul, killing at least 27 people.
A Taliban suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the German Consulate in northern Afghanistan, killing at least six people and wounding more than 100.
Four Afghans were killed and more than 100 injured when a Taliban suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the German consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, officials said.
Afghan officials say at least 30 civilians, including women and children, have been killed and dozens more wounded in an air strike in the country's north.
Dozens of people rallied in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz to protest against an air strike which they say caused civilian casualties.
A senior Afghan official has confirmed that two secret rounds of peace talks between Afghanistan's government and Taliban representatives have been held in Doha, Qatar, since early September.
Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled the northern city of Kunduz as clashes continue between government forces and the Taliban, while militants have launched a large-scale attack in the south.
Afghan security forces on August 25 killed at least two gunmen who attacked the American University in Kabul, ending a 10-hour assault on the compound that left at least 13 people dead.
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