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Afghan authorities have released on bail a militia leader accused of human rights abuses following days of violent demonstrations over his detention.
At least 20 Afghan police officers were killed when their convoy was ambushed in the western province of Farah, officials say.
Hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the detention of a Shi'ite Hazara militia commander have clashed with police in the Afghan capital.
An explosion inside a mosque at an Afghan military base in the volatile eastern province of Khost has killed at least 27 people and wounded 50, officials say.
A suicide bombing at a meeting of Afghan religious clerics in Kabul has killed at least 40 people, officials says.
Afghan police officers who have lost legs in the line of duty have returned to their unit to fight the Taliban in Uruzgan Province. But some officers say they haven't been paid their salaries or received any medical support.
Thousands have fled to escape fighting in two ethnic Hazara-majority districts in Afghanistan. Some described horrific fighting.
Dozens of people have been killed in violence across Afghanistan, including in a suicide bombing in Kabul targeting a protest by members of the mainly Shi'ite Hazara minority, officials say.
The Taliban are not ready to negotiate with the Afghan government, a Taliban member said at talks in Moscow on November 9.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, in a surprise visit to Kabul, has called on the Taliban to participate in negotiations to end the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan, saying continued fighting in the war-torn country was "pointless and counterproductive."
Twelve newborns have died at a health center in northeastern Afghanistan amid an outbreak of "an unknown and as yet not determined origin," the Italian nongovernment organization running the facility says.
Afghan officials say at least 13 members of Afghanistan's security forces have been killed in a battle in Ghazni Province about 150 kilometers southwest of Kabul.
An Afghan official says that Afghan authorities “have not yet” decided about sending a delegation to international talks Russia hosts next week on the Afghan peace process.
Mohibullah can't walk, and his parents can't afford a wheelchair for him. But this 9-year-old in Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province is determined to go to school, no matter what.
An Afghan National Army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed in bad weather in the western province of Farah, killing all 25 on board, a local official says.
Women in Kabul have a place to relax, study, exercise, and -- importantly for many -- avoid men.
Afghans went to polling stations in the country's southern province of Kandahar on October 27 to vote in parliamentary elections. Voting in the province was delayed by one week after an attack that killed two senior Afghan officials.
Voters went to the polls amid tight security in Kandahar Province on October 27 in parliamentary elections that were delayed in the southern Afghan province by one week after a high-profile Taliban attack.
Afghan officials say they have launched an investigation into claims that at least 14 civilians were killed in a military ground operation in eastern Afghanistan.
Senior Afghan officials have praised voters who cast ballots in weekend parliamentary elections that were plagued by violence and organizational problems, saying the turnout shows that Afghans are rejecting the ideology of Taliban militants.
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