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When Afghanistan declared full independence from Britain 100 years ago, some women also gained new freedoms, including access to education. But the regimes that followed have swung between extremes, both repressing and then promoting women's rights. Now, with peace talks under way with the Taliban, there's fear the pendulum could swing once more, with hard-won freedoms being rolled back.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has postponed a planned visit to Washington during which he was to discuss the U.S.-Taliban talks aimed at ending the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan, officials say.
President Ashraf Ghani says he has "regretfully" accepted the resignation of the head of Afghanistan's main intelligence agency after four members of a family were killed in an operation in the country’s east.
The Taliban took credit for the September 2 deadly attack in Kabul that killed 16 people and wounded at least 119, just hours after the Afghan-based militant group agreed "in principle" to a deal to end the 18-year conflict, the longest war in which the United States has been embroiled. The attack came as U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad was in Kabul to discuss with Afghan officials the draft peace deal.
The Taliban has taken credit for killing at least 16 civilians involving a car bombing and gunmen in Kabul on September 2 as the Afghan-based militant group agreed "in principle" to a deal to end the nearly 18-year conflict, the longest war in which the United States has been embroiled.
A loud explosion has jolted the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least five civilians, officials say.
The Taliban has agreed "in principle" that any Afghan territory it controls in the future will not be used as a safe haven for terrorists to launch attacks against the United States and its allies, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad has told RFE/RL.
Taliban militants have launched a major attack on one of Afghanistan’s largest cities, despite holding talks with the United States aimed at ending the country’s nearly 18-year conflict.
At the Tagab settlement in Kabul, hundreds of families displaced by conflict and drought live in grinding poverty. The job of bringing home food often falls to the children, who are forced to sift through garbage dumps in search of scraps or anything of value to sell.
As U.S. and Taliban officials look to apparently seal a historic deal to end the 18-year Afghan conflict, leaders of the extremist militant group are reviewing the proposed agreement at an undisclosed location along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
The Taliban has said an agreement is close with U.S. officials on a deal that would see American forces withdraw from Afghanistan in exchange for a Taliban promise the country would not become a haven for international militants.
The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a wedding party in Kabul last week has risen to 80, two senior Afghan officials said on August 21.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called for vengeance against the militants behind an attack on a weekend wedding party in Kabul which killed dozens. The groom says he doesn't understand why his wedding was targeted.
Dozens of people have been wounded in a series of explosions in eastern Afghanistan as the country marked 100 years of independence from the British.
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan John Bass has said he is “disturbed by reports” that a former bank manager convicted of multimillion-dollar fraud has been moved into house arrest from prison in exchange for allegedly making a large campaign donation to the incumbent’s presidential-election campaign.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has rejected foreign interference and called for the presidential election to be held next month as planned, amid talks between the United States and the Taliban aimed at bringing the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan to an end.
A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near a police station in Kabul on August 7. The explosion caused major damage, killing at least 18 people and wounding at least 145.
At least 14 people have been killed and 145 wounded after a Taliban suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside a police station in Kabul, according to the Afghan Public Health Ministry.
At least seven police were killed when one of their colleagues opened fire on them in the southern Kandahar Province on August 4, officials say.
Two people were killed and at least three others wounded in a blast targeting media workers in Kabul, Afghan officials say.
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