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An Afghan official says at least five army personnel, all crew members of a military helicopter, were killed when their aircraft made an emergency landing and caught fire in the western Farah Province.
The death toll from a suicide attack on a protest gathering in eastern Afghanistan has soared to 68, officials said.
Taliban militants have reportedly killed dozens of Afghan security forces in fresh attacks on several government targets.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader that killed at least seven people.
Afghan authorities say a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a procession in Kabul commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, injuring at least two people.
Afghan officials say at least nine security officers were killed and five others injured in an attack by insurgents in the western province of Herat.
Twin bombings at a wrestling training center in a predominately Shi’ite neighborhood of Afghanistan's capital have killed at least 20 people and wounded 70 others, the Interior Ministry says.
A video has gone viral that shows a member of Afghanistan's parliament throwing chairs and smashing displays in a Kabul pastry shop on September 2. The shopkeeper says Homa Sultani bought cakes for beggar children and then reacted violently when he asked them to leave.
The governor of Afghanistan's northern province of Baghlan says Afghan security forces have recaptured a strategic district from Taliban fighters who have controlled the area in recent weeks.
U.S. Army General Scott Miller has begun his duties as the new commander of NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed five border police and wounded three others in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Afghan officials said unknown aircraft hit Taliban forces in a province along the border with Tajikistan, killing eight militants, a day after a shooting that left at least two Tajiks killed.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has rejected the resignations of three senior security officials in his cabinet, after the country’s national security adviser stepped down and was replaced, his office says.
The national-security adviser to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has resigned from his position, an Afghan official said on August 25.
The United States and Afghanistan both say they will not attend Russia-hosted peace talks scheduled for next month, with Kabul asserting it prefers instead to hold direct talks with the Taliban.
A fierce battle broke out in Afghanistan's capital, after militants targeted rockets near where President Ashraf Ghani was speaking.
Afghan officials say three gunmen have been killed in central Kabul after they fired a barrage of rockets while President Ashraf Ghani was making a speech to mark the start of the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday.
They hadn't played an international soccer match in Kabul since 2013. That changed when the Palestinian National Team arrived to take on Afghanistan on August 19.
Afghan officials say government security forces on August 20 freed 149 people who had been taken hostage by the Taliban several hours earlier in the northern province of Kunduz.
The leader of Afghanistan's Taliban has said there can be no peace in the country as long as foreign "occupation" goes on.
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