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Afghanistan's intelligence agency says it has arrested a would-be suicide bomber who planned to detonate his explosives at the funeral of an antigovernment protester in Kabul.
Several people have been killed in three explosions in Kabul near the funeral of an Afghan senator's son, one of five victims of deadly clashes between police and protesters a day earlier, witnesses and a security official say.
Authorities in Afghanistan say four people have been killed amid confrontations between police and protesters demanding the resignation of President Ashraf Ghani's government two days after a deadly truck-bomb blast in Kabul.
One day after a massive truck bombing that killed at least 90 people and wounded hundreds in Kabul's diplomatic quarter, no group has stepped forward to claim responsibility.
The Afghan government has raised the death toll from a huge truck-bomb blast in the center of Kabul to 90.
Afghan authorities have arrested eight people, including the son of a lawmaker, after a rock-throwing crowd forced a plane to return abruptly to Kabul to pick up two lawmakers who had missed their flight.
Afghan officials say militants have attacked an army base in the southern province of Kandahar, killing at least 10 soldiers and wounding nine.
Controversial Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has left the country and flown to Turkey, officials say.
A suspected roadside bomb has killed 11 people from the same family on their way to a wedding in the eastern Afghan province of Logar, local officials said.
Attackers stormed the state television building in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, triggering an hours-long gunbattle with security forces that left at least two civilians dead.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says women are the biggest victims of the ongoing war in Afghanistan, which he says has prevented millions of girls and women from getting an education.
Afghan security forces have recaptured a northeastern district from Taliban fighters, the Defense Ministry says.
Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e Islami group said on May 11 that it will not hand over its weapons, despite pledging to do so as part of a peace deal signed with the government in September.
Afghanistan has disputed a claim by the Pakistani Army that it had killed some 50 security personnel and destroyed at least five Afghan checkpoints near the border between the two countries, saying only two border police were killed.
Hundreds of Afghans have staged a protest against Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, hours after the notorious militant leader held a large rally in Kabul to mark his return to the country under a peace deal with the government.
Notorious Afghan militant leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has called on his Taliban "brothers" to end their insurgency and offered to mediate talks with the government.
Afghanistan's independent media watchdog NAI says there have been more than 14 fatal attacks against reporters and other media workers since 2016.
A powerful blast targeting an armored NATO convoy in Kabul has killed at least eight people and wounded 28, including three coalition soldiers, officials say.
Notorious former Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has held talks with government representatives in eastern Afghanistan after years outside the country, his first public meetings with officials from the Western-backed government since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001.
A top U.S. Army general has suggested during a visit to Afghanistan by U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis that Russia is arming Taliban militants.
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