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An explosion in northern Afghanistan has killed at least three people outside a game of buzkashi – a popular, traditional equestrian sport in Afghanistan and Central Asia that is similar to polo but uses a goat or calf carcass instead of a ball.
At least 13 teachers at a religious school have been abducted in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
Afghan officials say at least three people were killed and nine others, including the provincial governor and a foreign ambassador, were injured in a blast at a government guesthouse in the southern province of Kandahar late on January 10.
Afghan officials say twin bombings near parliament in Kabul killed at least 38 people on January 10, while a powerful blast at a government guesthouse in southern Kandahar left at least seven dead, including five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates.
The Taliban has denied responsibility for the killing of eight coal miners in northern Afghanistan.
An Afghan official says unidentified gunmen have killed 13 coal miners in northern Afghanistan.
Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims have demonstrated in western Afghanistan against increasing attacks by radical Islamic groups.
Afghan officials have arrested four suspects in the killing last month of five female airport employees and their driver in the southern province of Kandahar.
Tajik authorities are looking into claims by an Afghan official that Taliban tanks and other heavy weapons are being repaired by Russian engineers in Tajikistan.
Sikh and Hindu communities in Afghanistan have demanded authorities investigate attacks against members of their communities, after a local Sikh community leader was shot dead in the northern city of Kunduz.
At least three people, including a parliamentarian, are reported to have been wounded by a bomb blast in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says that security forces have carried out nine military operations across the country over the past 24 hours, killing at least 30 militants.
Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has refused a summons by the country's attorney general over allegations that he and his bodyguards assaulted and abducted a political rival at a sports event in northern Afghanistan last month.
Afghan officials say unknown gunmen shot dead five female airport employees and their driver in the southern city of Kandahar in the morning on December 17.
A former governor has accused Afghan First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum of ordering his rape with an assault rifle and other forms of torture after he was abducted by Dostum and gunmen loyal to the ex-warlord.
The office of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has expressed skepticism about a promise by Taliban militants to support and protect development projects in Afghanistan.
A top general in the Afghan National Army has been killed, and at least seven other officials have been injured in a military helicopter crash, in Afghanistan's northwestern province of Badghis.
Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall have killed at least 20 people, mostly children, this week in a remote northern province in Afghanistan, local officials say.
Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has detonated his explosives inside a Shi’ite mosque in Kabul, killing at least 27 people.
Dozens of women are said to have joined the ranks of an all-female militia that arose out of necessity, when Taliban fighters stormed a local village.
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