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Police say two sticky bombs that targeted Afghan government employees in Kabul killed two people on August 19 and wounded two others.
Afghan officials say at least 10 people were wounded after a series of rockets hit residential and diplomatic areas in Kabul as the country celebrated the 101st anniversary of its independence.
Afghan officials say the planned peace talks with the Taliban have hit a new impasse after some foreign governments called on Kabul not to free certain fighters in a prisoner-release deal.
Thousands of prominent Afghans have supported the release of about 400 Taliban prisoners on August 9, including many who had been involved in attacks that killed Afghans and foreigners.
A traditional Afghan council is set to meet again on August 8 in Kabul to decide whether the government should release 400 Taliban prisoners that have been convicted of involvement in high-profile attacks in the country.
A grand assembly, or Loya Jirga, has opened in Afghanistan's capital to decide whether to release a final 400 Taliban prisoners, the last hurdle to opening peace talks between the internationally backed government and the Taliban under a peace deal between the militants and the United States.
Iranian authorities have arrested a number of Afghans for waving the Taliban flag at a park in the capital, Tehran, during celebrations for the Eid al-Adha holy festival this past weekend.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the release of an additional 500 Taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture as a three-day cease-fire proposed by the Taliban and agreed to by the Afghan government took effect on July 31.
Afghan mothers are waging a battle to get their names on their children's national ID cards.
An all-female group of robotics students in the Afghan city of Herat has developed a prototype ventilator for COVID-19 patients based on a design by M.I.T.
Afghan authorities have relocated 15-year-old Qamar Gul and her siblings to a safe house after she used an AK-47 to shoot dead two Taliban militants.
Over a dozen Afghan security personnel and scores of Taliban militants have been killed in attacks across the country.
Over a dozen Afghan security personnel have been killed in suspected Taliban attacks.
Senior Afghan and Iranian diplomats are meeting to work on an agreement leading to “comprehensive cooperation” between their countries.
An Afghan rights commission says that on average 16 civilians have been killed or wounded every day across the country in the first half of 2020.
In Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province, more children are working in the poppy fields and selling opium after schools were shut because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Afghan Industry and Commerce Ministry says it will invest more than $1 million in developing a major industrial park in the northern Balkh Province.
A major Taliban attack on the offices of Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency has killed at least 11 security personnel and wounded dozens of others, mostly civilians.
A new decree from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani states that all of the country’s 34 provinces will appoint women as deputy governors.
A 14-year-old boy called Shukrullah makes 500 bricks a day in 40-degree heat. At this Afghan brick factory in Faryab Province, more than half of the workers are children.
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