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As the Taliban intensifies its attacks across Afghanistan, the fighting has taken a heavy toll on Kunduz Province in the north. Thousands of people have fled their homes and taken shelter at temporary camps, where food and medicine are in short supply.
The Taliban has launched its first assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan since waging a major offensive against Afghan forces, as the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country nears completion.
A Taliban offensive in northern Afghanistan gained momentum over the weekend, sending hundreds of Afghan government troops fleeing into Tajikistan as the insurgency captured more districts and surrounded a provincial capital.
The White House says it expects the drawdown of U.S. forces from Afghanistan to be completed by the end of next month, after all American and NATO soldiers left the war-torn nation's biggest air base.
Afghan security forces have retaken control of three districts in the north of the country after days of heavy fighting with Taliban militants.
At a prison in Herat, one of the largest in Afghanistan, inmates have the opportunity to fill their long days by learning trades that will help them return to society after their release. Prison officials hope that being able to earn a living will keep them from returning to crime.
Taliban forces have captured more than 50 members of the country's security force in the central province of Maidan Wardak , a senior police commander told RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan.
Security forces are engaged in a fierce battle against the Taliban across Afghanistan as President Ashraf Ghani prepares to meet his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, at the White House later on June 25.
Taliban militants have seized dozens of districts across Afghanistan as fighting has surged in recent weeks. Civilians in some parts of the country have begun mobilizing into armed militias, vowing to fight alongside troops to keep the Taliban from taking more territory.
The Taliban has maintained control of Afghanistan's main border crossing with Tajikistan as the group added to recent gains and pressed an offensive to the outskirts of the northern city of Kunduz.
Taliban militants have conducted multiple of offensives in Afghanistan's north in recent days, overrunning dozens of districts since May 1, when U.S. and NATO troops began their final withdrawal from the war-wracked country and reportedly capturing the main border crossing with Tajikistan.
Just 22 percent of Afghan women are in the labor force -- but job training programs across the country could help change that. One center in Kandahar offers courses in sewing, knitting, and other skills that give trainees the means to support themselves and their families.
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, at the White House on June 25, the White House has announced.
Gunmen on June 15 targeted several polio vaccination teams in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five of the medical workers. It was the second such assault against polio vaccination teams in the area in less than three months.
A U.S. diplomat has told RFE/RL that negotiations are still under way in Qatar's capital, Doha, between representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban, but are proceeding slowly.
Officials in the Afghan capital reported dual bomb attacks that killed at least seven people on June 12 as reports from the provinces said two more districts had fallen to Taliban militants.
The Taliban has captured yet another district amid increased violence between the militants and the Western-backed Afghan government that has cast uncertainty over the future of the country once U.S.-led international forces leave by September.
An affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for this week’s attack in which 10 Afghans working for a mine-clearance organization were shot and killed and 16 others wounded.
A group of 42 rejected asylum seekers have reportedly arrived in Kabul after being deported from Germany.
At least 10 Afghans working for a mine-clearance nongovernmental organization have been killed in an attack in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan.
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