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A “reduction in violence” agreement with the Taliban appeared to hold during its first hours early on February 22, a hopeful initial indication that a peace deal between the United States and the militant group will be signed as expected in a week.
A deal between the United States and the Taliban is expected to be signed on February 29 provided a "reduction in violence'" due to enter into force at midnight proves successful, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on February 21.
Afghanistan's outgoing Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah has complained to the European Union about its recognition of final official Afghan presidential election results showing President Ashraf Ghani has been reelected.
Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has called on his supporters to take to the streets to protest the reelection of President Ashraf Ghani.
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 Interior Ministry says a reduction in violence agreed to between Taliban fighters and the United States is due to start within 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.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani banned the hunting of rare birds and animals two years ago, but hunting continues across the country and the hides of rare animals can be bought in markets in the capital, Kabul.
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 a southern neighborhood of Kabul has killed at least five people, in what was described as the first major assault in the Afghan capital in months.
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.
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.
A settlement in western Afghanistan has become known as the "village of widows." Some 50 women in the village of Mir Ali in Herat Province's Adraskan district have lost their husbands, with many killed or executed after smuggling drugs across the Iranian border.
An Afghan media watchdog has urged the government to take note of a demand for more media freedoms after numerous local media outlets issued a joint statement denouncing the "deterioration" of access to government-related information in the country.
Dozens of Afghan media outlets have joined their voices to denounce the "deterioration" of access to government-related information in the country.
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.
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.
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.
Local residents near the site of where a U.S. military aircraft in Afghanistan crashed said they did not believe claims that Taliban militants had shot down the plane.
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