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At least 13 people, including seven students, were killed during a 10-hour assault by gunmen on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.
Afghan forces have retaken a district in the northeastern Kunduz Province that had been seized earlier by Taliban forces.
The family of a pregnant Afghan girl who was burned to death have demanded that the government bring the perpetrators to justice.
Afghan officials said on June 22 that the Taliban has freed 23 men who were kidnapped a day earlier by militants in southern Afghanistan.
A blast in a village mosque has killed at least four people and wounded nearly 40 others in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said on June 10.
Officials in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz say Taliban militants have killed two of the hostages abducted from a bus convoy this week.
Taliban militants have killed at least 13 people and are holding more than 30 hostage after an ambush on a highway in northern Afghanistan.
Dozens of members of Afghan police forces have been reported killed over the past two days in heavy fighting in the southern province of Helmand.
Pakistan on May 18 is hosting a new round of four-nation Afghan peace talks aimed at reviving long-stalled negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has proposed a reshuffling of his defense and intelligence ministers in the aftermath of a massive deadly terrorist attack in Kabul.
The family of a 5-year-old Afghan boy who received autographed jerseys from his soccer hero Lionel Messi has been forced to leave Afghanistan because of constant telephone threats.
The Qatar-based political office of Afghanistan’s Taliban has rejected media reports that a Taliban delegation sent to Pakistan is exploring the possibility of joining peace talks with the Afghan government.
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has called on Pakistan to battle the Taliban rather than try to bring them into peace talks.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have attacked an office of the country's main security agency in Kabul, killing at least 28 people and wounding about 300 more.
At least 30 people have been killed by flash floods in northern Afghanistan.
At least 12 recruits in the Afghan National Army have been killed and dozens of people wounded by a Taliban suicide bomber who attacked the recruits' bus near the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Afghan officials say at least seven people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the country's north.
Afghan security forces say they thwarted an attack on the country's acting intelligence chief in Kabul.
An Islamist militant group, Hezb-e Islami, has started peace talks with the Afghan government.
Authorities in Afghanistan say they're investigating the circumstances around a disturbing video clip that appears to show police officers taking part in the brutal torture of an alleged terror suspect.
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