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Afghan government forces clashed with Taliban militants in a provincial capital about 120 kilometers from Kabul, officials and witnesses said on May 24.
Afghan mixed martial arts champ Hussain Bakhsh Safari plans to auction some of his medals to raise cash for the families of students killed in attacks in Kabul and Logar Province.
The death toll from bombings outside a high school in the Afghan capital has risen to 100 dead and 160 wounded, says the office of Sarwar Danish, Afghanistan's second vice president.
Taliban fighters have overrun another district in Afghanistan's central province of Maidan Wardak after heavy fighting with government forces.
Afghan officials say at least 16 people have been killed in separate attacks across the war-torn country.
Najiba Noor Delawari grew up in an Afghan village under Taliban rule, and her own father belonged to the extremist group. After he cut ties with the militants and the family fled to the provincial capital, Delawari joined the police force. Now she's the first woman to serve as a district police chie
In parts of Afghanistan, a custom known as "bacha posh" allows parents to dress their daughters as boys to give them temporary access to education or work. Hukmina decided to keep wearing men's clothing throughout her life, and this has afforded her freedoms that few other women enjoy.
Abdul Manan Niazi, deputy head of a breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan, has died in a Kabul hospital of wounds sustained in a shooting earlier this week by unknown gunmen in Herat Province.
Afghan officials say a blast at a mosque in a northern Kabul neighborhood killed at least 12 worshippers on the second day of a cease-fire declared by the government and the Taliban.
Four separate bomb attacks have killed at least 11 civilians and wounded 13 others just hours after a three-day cease-fire took effect as Afghanistan celebrates the Eid al-Fitr festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban have halted in recent weeks as extremists launched a new wave of attacks. But two former combatants say they're still holding out hope for the peace process and an eventual end to the conflict.
Taliban fighters have captured Afghanistan's second-biggest dam and two Afghan Army bases, militants and officials said, as fighting escalates amid the ongoing pullout of U.S. and international forces from the war-wracked country.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants captured a district in northern Afghanistan after hours of fighting with government forces amid a recent surge in violence as the United States begins to pull its forces from the war-torn country.
Afghan officials say heavy rains and flash floods have hit a number of provinces across the country, claiming at least 37 lives and destroying hundreds of homes.
On May 12, 2020, gunmen stormed the maternity ward of a Kabul hospital, killing and wounding dozens. Amena Sharifi suffered a gunshot wound just hours after birth, and her mother was killed. But one year and two operations later, Amena is ready to begin walking like any toddler.
At least 15 Afghan government soldiers have been killed in Taliban attacks in two provinces as violence continues to rise while negotiations between the two sides aimed at ending a 20-year conflict stall.
The Afghan Defense Ministry says that more than 100 militants were killed in fighting between government forces and the Taliban over the past two days.
The United States and NATO officially began withdrawing their last troops from Afghanistan on May 1, leaving the war-torn country to an uncertain future amid raging violence in the absence of a peace deal.
Afghans have received enormous economic benefits from the international military presence since it arrived in 2001. But with foreign forces departing by September, many expect to feel the financial bite.
A huge car-bomb explosion in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar killed at least 26 people on April 30, officials said.
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