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Cross-border shelling by Pakistan killed at least 15 civilians in Afghanistan on July 31, prompting Kabul to put its ground and air forces on alert.
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 officials say at least eight people were killed and dozens injured in a bomb attack in the eastern province of Logar on July 30, just hours before a three-day cease-fire was to begin for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.
An Afghan man is trying to educate street children in the city of Ghazni. Azizullah Qaderi offers free lessons in a city park each day and wants to build a school for his pupils.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
At least six Afghan police officers have been killed in two separate Taliban bombings amid a surge in attacks across the war-torn country.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has warned that a spike in violence by militants in the country poses a "serious" threat to the peace process with the Taliban.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's special envoy on economic and trade development has died from COVID19, one of his aides says.
Afghanistan's security forces have stepped up their crackdown on heroin labs and poppy farms in Taliban-controlled regions of the country's northeastern Badakhshan Province. Its long border with Tajikistan makes the province one of the main heroin production hubs for Central Asia. But poppy eradication has proven difficult with local farmers relying on the crop as one of their only sources of income.
The Taliban says it has held a video conference call with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during which the militant group reaffirmed its commitment to the peace process in Afghanistan.
A roadside bomb has killed at least six Afghan civilians and wounded two others in the southern province of Helmand, officials say.
Afghan officials say dozens of Taliban fighters staged overnight raids and stormed several checkpoints in the northern part of the country, killing at least 14 security personnel.
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