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Afghan officials say a number of armed militants entered on August 24 the compound of the American University of Afghanistan in the west of Kabul.
Intense battles are raging between the Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents in two large southern provinces of Afghanistan bordering Iran and Pakistan.
The family of a pregnant Afghan girl who was burned to death have demanded that the government bring the perpetrators to justice.
The militant group Islamic State (IS) has released a video purportedly showing the 17-year-old Afghan asylum seeker accused of attacking passengers with an ax and knife on a train in Bavaria, southern Germany, vowing to carry out the attack.
Two Taliban suicide bombers have targeted buses carrying police trainees near the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing dozens and wounding more.
The Afghan High Peace Council (AHPC) says it has agreed on the main points of a peace deal with the Hezb-e Islami militant group.
The Qatar-based political office of Afghanistan’s Taliban has rejected media reports that a Taliban delegation sent to Pakistan is exploring the possibility of joining peace talks with the Afghan government.
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has called on Pakistan to battle the Taliban rather than try to bring them into peace talks.
Two suicide bombings in Afghanistan that killed at least 28 people on February 27 have thrown the prospects of peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban in doubt.
Afghanistan's chief executive has called on Indian businesses to invest in his war-torn country -- including development of a proposed trade corridor through Afghanistan that links Iran with India and Central Asia.
Afghan and U.S. officials say air strikes have destroyed Voice of the Caliphate, an Islamic State-operated radio station that had been broadcasting the militant group’s extremist messages in eastern Afghanistan since last year.
At least seven people were killed in Kabul when a suicide bomber with a vehicle full of explosives attacked a minibus carrying employees of Tolo TV.
A provincial security chief in Afghanistan has accused Pakistani military of orchestrating a recent attack on the Indian diplomatic mission in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif.
Pakistan's army chief has held talks in Kabul with top Afghan officials as part of new efforts to revive talks between the Afghan government and the extremist Taliban militia group.
The Taliban have taken control of a strategic district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
Afghan officials have expressed concerned over what they described as "the rapid advance of the Taliban" in Helmand Province and warned several districts in the southern province may fall to the militant group.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has issued a call for unity after violence marred a protest in the capital over the beheadings of seven ethnic Hazara, possibly by Islamist extremists.
Afghan security forces have fired warning shots into the air to drive back protesters trying to climb the walls of the Presidential Palace in Kabul, where thousands of marchers expressed anger over the brutal killings of seven ethnic Hazaras.
Afghan lawmakers have condemned and ordered an investigation into the stoning death of a young woman accused of adultery.
Afghan rights advocates are pushing the government to swiftly investigate reports that judges and prosecutors allegedly raped female prisoners in provinces across western Afghanistan.
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