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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.
Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections have entered into a second day after hundreds of polling stations were closed on the first day of voting due to technical and security issues.
Afghan officials are counting ballots in the country’s long-delayed parliamentary elections that were marred by deadly attacks and chaotic scenes at polling stations hit by technical and organizational problems.
Afghan voters went to the polling stations across the country on October 20 to vote in parliamentary elections, which are seen as a key test of the government's ability to provide security across the country.
Polls have closed in Afghanistan’s long-delayed parliamentary elections, with voting marred by deadly attacks and chaotic scenes at polling stations hit by technical and organizational problems.
Parliamentary elections in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar will be delayed by one week following the assassination of the powerful provincial police commander, Afghan officials said.
The police chief and intelligence head of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar have been killed in a shooting attack, officials say, in a major blow to the West-backed government in Kabul.
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