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Officials said at least three people were killed when militants attacked a midwife training center in eastern Afghanistan.
At least three people have been injured after several rockets hit the Afghan capital.
At least 14 people, including women and children, have been killed in an Afghan-U.S. air strike near the northern city of Kunduz, officials say.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has dismissed the Taliban’s rejection of his offer of peace talks, suggesting that the militant group can still be persuaded to come to the negotiating table.
A group of activists in Afghanistan have staged a sit-in outside the Russian embassy in Kabul. It's part of their campaign to get world powers to find peaceful ways to end decades of bloody conflict in the country.
A suicide bombing close to a security checkpoint In the Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed at least 12 people, with the extremist group Islamic State (IS) claiming responsibility for the attack.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Taliban fighters to hold peace talks with the Afghan government, as he made an unannounced visit to the Afghan capital.
The Afghan government has sent a delegation to the northern province of Faryab to ease tensions that gripped the area following the arrest of a powerful militia commander.
Afghanistan's Sikh and Hindu communities are fearing for their safety after a suicide bomber killed more than a dozen people, including an aspiring politician.
The Indian Embassy in Kabul condemned the deadly attack by a suicide bomber that targeted a group of Hindus and Sikhs in the eastern Afghan province on Nangarhar.
Taliban attacks on a number of checkpoints in Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province have left at least 14 border-police officers dead, an official says.
Afghan police have arrested a Kazakh national in the country's northeastern Kunduz Province.
Afghan officials say at least 11 soldiers were killed in the first major Taliban attack since the militants ended a cease-fire coinciding with the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
Afghan activists arrived in Kabul after a 700-kilometer peace march lasting 40 days. But hopes that an Eid cease-fire would be extended appeared to be dashed after the Taliban renewed hostilities.
Afghan peace activists have arrived in Kabul after trekking some 700 kilometers on foot calling for an end to Afghanistan’s nearly 17-year war.
Officials said a suicide bomber attacked a crowd leaving a governor's compound in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 18 people in the second such bombing in two days.
Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people in the eastern province of Nangarhar by blowing himself up at a gathering of Taliban and government armed forces marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan with a cease-fire.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said he has confirmed the death of Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah, calling it a "great step toward building trust" between Kabul and Islamabad.
Thousands of Afghans have left their homes in the country's west, fleeing thirst and hunger as a severe drought leaves fields bare.
One seat in the Afghan parliament is reserved for a member of the country's small Sikh and Hindu communities. Politician Awtar Singh Khalsa is ready to run in the October election and hopes to use the position to represent not only Sikhs, but all Afghans.
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