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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.
Afghan government forces have retaken most of Ghazni from the Taliban as clashes continued for a fourth straight day after the militant group launched an assault on the eastern city, officials say.
Twenty amputees have begun a trek of more than 600 kilometers across Afghanistan to call for an end to the country's 17-year war.
A suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan has killed three Czech members of NATO's Resolute Support force.
Afghan police say at least 25 people have been killed in twin suicide blasts at a Shi’ite mosque in southeastern Afghanistan.
Police in Kabul have recovered the bodies of three foreign nationals who were abducted and killed in the Afghan capital, local officials say.
Afghanistan's electoral authorities say the country will hold its next presidential election on April 20, 2019, six months after parliamentary polls.
Dozens of Islamic State (IS) fighters have surrendered to Afghan forces, amid intense fighting between followers of the extremist group and the Taliban in the northern province of Jawzjan, an official says.
Afghan officials say at least 11 civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in the western province of Farah on July 31, while unidentified gunmen stormed a government building in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
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