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The International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has denied a claim by Pakistan's military that ISAF is failing to help stop militants who cross the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Officials say an Afghan police officer and two members of his family have been shot dead by militants in northern Baghlan Province.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the Taliban has for the first time expressed interest in talking with his U.S.-backed government.
An explosion at a marketplace in southern Afghanistan has reportedly killed at least one person and wounded 10 others.
Afghan police say 50 suspected Taliban militants have been killed since early on June 11 in what they described as security "clearance" operations.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's elder brother, Abdul Qayum Karzai, is apparently planning to enter the race to be elected Afghanistan's next president.
Afghan officials fear scores of casualties after rescuers pulled out two bodies from rubble after an earthquake hit a remote region in northern Afghanistan.
A security official in Afghanistan's northeastern Takhar Province says 17 people have been detained in connection with the alleged gas poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls.
A security official in Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province says eight suspects have been arrested over alleged links to the poisoning of schoolgirls.
Afghanistan's upper house has approved a strategic partnership agreement between Kabul and Washington, clearing the way for a U.S. presence in the country after the withdrawal of most foreign combat troops in 2014.
Afghanistan's Education Ministry has urged Pakistan to reopen supply routes to NATO to allow for the delivery to Afghanistan of 4.5 million textbooks intended for Afghan schoolchildren.
Two foreign aid workers and three Afghan colleagues have been abducted by unknown armed men in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, Afghan authorities reported.
The chairman of Afghanistan's Senate, Fazal Hadi Muslimyar, has confirmed that senators received threats regarding a strategic agreement with United States.
The head of the Afghan High Peace Council has said the assassination plot that killed an influential peace negotiator was planned outside Afghanistan.
A top Afghan peace negotiator and former Taliban deputy minister is gunned down in the capital, Kabul, dealing another blow to the country's attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban.
Afghan authorities have arrested two men on charges of spying for Iran and attempting to carry out terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
An Afghan reporter with Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency has been arrested in Afghanistan on spying charges.
The Afghan government says Afghan security forces are ready to fill any vacuum caused by the possible early withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan.
Reports Say Taliban Has Launched Attacks Paktika Province
RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports that the head of the Afghan National Security Directorate, Rahmatulah Nabil has said a senior member of the Afghan Taliban has been captured and killed along with 25 other members of the militia.
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