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For centuries, artisans in the city of Herat have made the ceramic tiles that decorate Afghan mosques. But as mass-produced tiles replace handmade ones, the craftsmen fear that their tradition may be dying out.
A restaurant in Kabul is offering a unique service for Afghanistan: Patrons can be waited on by a robot server known as Timea.
Afghanistan's election authorities have declared incumbent President Ashraf Ghani the winner of last year's polls, but his main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, has contested the final official results.
Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said on February 18 that a reduction in violence agreed between Taliban fighters and the United States is due to begin during the next five days.
Afghan officials say at least five Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban militants stormed a base in northern Afghanistan, despite expectations for a "reduction in violence" before a U.S.-Taliban deal.
One of the foreign customs which has been embraced in parts of Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban in 2001 has been showing your love on Valentine's Day. In Kabul, flower and gift shops cater to the growing demand.
A suicide bombing targeting a military academy in Kabul has killed at least six people, officials say.
Police in the Afghan capital say a son of Mohammad Mohaqeq, the ethnic Hazara leader and second deputy to Afghanistan's chief executive, has died after a gunfight broke out at the family home in Kabul on February 9.
Some 50 families, out of a total 70, have lost men to smuggling in Mir Ali. The impoverished village is characterized by dusty streets lined with crumbling mud houses. It is locally known as “the village of widows” because it has lost most of its men to drug smuggling.
A 12-year old boy from Afghanistan's Ghor Province is the only breadwinner of an extended family of 30, most of them young children. Ahmad Zia's father and three uncles were killed by the Taliban.
Dozens of Afghan media outlets have joined their voices to denounce the "deterioration" of access to government-related information in the country.
Helicopter-borne U.S. forces have recovered the remains of two personnel killed when a military communications aircraft went down in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan's Ghazni Province, the Pentagon has confirmed.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Pakistani and Afghan cities and towns to voice anger over the detention of an ethnic Pashtun rights activist in Pakistan.
At least seven Afghan police officers have been killed in a January 28 attack by Taliban militants on a police station in the northern province of Baghlan, officials say.
An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on January 27, the U.S. military and the NATO-led force in the country said, adding that there were no indications so far it had been brought down by enemy fire.
A passenger plane carrying dozens of people has crashed in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghazni, officials say.
Afghan officials in the northern province of Balkh said at least seven civilians were killed in air strikes, prompting protests in front of the district governor's office.
A U.S. drone strike earlier this month in the western Afghan province of Herat that apparently targeted a militant group also killed at least 10 civilians, including three women and three children, an Afghan rights official and a council member said on January 22.
A representative of the Taliban says a second day of meetings between the group and a U.S. negotiating team led by Zalmay Khalilzad has been held in Qatar.
A senior police officer and 12 other people have been killed in a bomb blast in the Pakistani southwestern city of Quetta, officials say.
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