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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.
A Taliban suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with explosives into the German Consulate in northern Afghanistan, killing at least six people and wounding more than 100.
Afghan officials say at least 30 civilians, including women and children, have been killed and dozens more wounded in an air strike in the country's north.
Gunmen have rounded up and shot dead dozens of civilians in central Afghanistan, prompting protests by locals about government failure to protect them.
A senior Afghan official has confirmed that two secret rounds of peace talks between Afghanistan's government and Taliban representatives have been held in Doha, Qatar, since early September.
Afghan officials say hundreds of members of the Afghanistan's security forces have been killed in recent fighting against Taliban militants in and around Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province.
Two separate attacks targeting members of Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority during Ashura commemorations have left several dozen people dead and scores wounded.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul, that killed 18 people, mostly Shi'ite mourners.
The Afghan government has deployed hundreds of troops to the southern city of Lashkar Gah as Taliban militants threaten to overrun the provincial capital of Helmand Province.
Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled the northern city of Kunduz as clashes continue between government forces and the Taliban, while militants have launched a large-scale attack in the south.
At least three police officers have been killed by a Taliban attack in Kandahar Province, according to a spokesman for the provincial governor.
Afghan officials say government security forces have pushed Taliban militants back from the south side of the city of Kunduz in a battle that is now in its fourth day.
Afghan officials say Taliban forces have fought their way to within 2 kilometers of Uruzgan Province’s capital, Tarin Kot.
Afghan officials say at least to eight people have been killed -- including at least six Taliban fighters -- as a result of a militant attack on a district governor’s office in Logar Province.
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