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Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says 37 civilians have been killed and another 35 people injured at the main military base in southern Afghanistan since Taliban militants stormed the sprawling facility shortly after sundown on December 8.
Taliban fighters have attacked the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
Afghan officials on December 7 confirmed that President Ashraf Ghani plans to visit Pakistan this week for a regional conference that has bolstered hopes for the revival of peace talks with the Taliban.
Afghan officials say a suicide car bomber in the eastern province of Nangarhar injured 22 people, including at least six police officers, in an attack against a police compound early on December 7.
Afghan officials say Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansur has been seriously injured in a firefight following a verbal dispute at a meeting of militant commanders in neighboring Pakistan, exposing the deep divisions within the fractious militant movement.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Afghan security forces are fighting competently against the Taliban and other Islamic militants.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has met with Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbaev to discuss economic and security ties during his first official visit to Kazakhstan.
The Taliban have launched an attack on a police headquarters in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, killing one soldier and wounding six other people.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has issued a call for unity after violence marred a protest in the capital over the beheadings of seven ethnic Hazaras, possibly by Islamist extremists.
An Afghan official says rival Taliban factions have been fighting each other, with about 50 men on both sides killed in recent days.
The new leader of an Afghan Taliban splinter faction has offered words of support for Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda militants, but says that they are not welcome to operate in Afghanistan.
Afghan lawmakers have condemned and ordered an investigation into the stoning death of a young woman accused of adultery.
The governor of Afghanistan's central Ghor Province has attested to the authenticity of a video that shows a young woman being stoned to death in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials say the Taliban has stoned to death a 19-year-old woman in the city of Firoz-Koh in Ghor Province.
One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Afghanistan in decades has rocked the country's north, leaving heavy casualties and damage in its wake across South Asia.
Afghan officials say security forces have retaken the Ghormach district in the northwestern Faryab Province after it was overrun by Taliban militants several days ago.
Afghan security forces have launched a two-pronged offensive to take on the Taliban in areas where the militant group has made gains in recent days.
​Police in northwestern Afghanistan say 18 police officers were captured by the Taliban when the militant group seized a remote district in Faryab Province.
The female governor in Afghanistan's western Ghor Province says she has received death threats from armed strongmen and fears for her life.
The governor of Kunduz Province, whose whereabouts have been unknown to journalists in Kabul for the last two days, has reappeared in Kabul and is vowing to spill his "last drop of blood" to recapture his provincial capital.
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