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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has written a letter to Pakistani leaders demanding that Islamabad take stronger action against Taliban militants.
Dozens of insurgents attacked several checkpoints in southern Afghanistan, killing 26 security forces' personnel in a day-long battle.
Authorities in Afghanistan say a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of vehicles with foreign security forces near Kabul Airport, killing a foreign staff member of the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL) and two Afghan women.
Afghan Taliban militants blocked roads in eastern Paktia Province and kidnapped at least 30 occupants at gunpoint before most of the captives were later freed in a police action.
As investigators consider the possibility of an inside job, details surrounding a deadly Taliban attack that targeted foreign partygoers at a popular Kabul guesthouse remain sketchy.
The United Nations says the death toll from a May 13 Taliban attack on a Kabul guesthouse popular with foreigners has jumped to 14.
Nearly 20 Hazaras taken in February in a brazen hostage-taking in southern Afghanistan have reportedly been released.
A provincial official in Afghanistan says kidnappers have released 19 Hazara hostages abducted in February in exchange for 22 people.
Officials in northern Afghanistan say Taliban fighters who launched an offensive against government security forces last month have been joined by foreign fighters from the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Fighting between Afghan government forces and Tailban fighters raged in at least four parts of Kunduz Province on May 7, as government troops continued their drive to recapture territory that was seized when militants launched a major northern offensive.
An Afghan judge on May 6 sentenced four men to death for participating in the mob killing of a woman who was falsely accused of burning pages from the Koran in Kabul.
A NATO official says Afghan security forces will defeat a Taliban insurgency near the northern city of Kunduz that has caused thousands of people to flee their homes.
An Afghan government delegation is expected to meet with representatives of the Taliban over the next several days in Qatar.
Afghan security forces continued to battle Taliban in the northern city of Kunduz on April 30 in a bid to push them outside of the city limits.
The European Union has urged Afghanistan's government to battle widespread corruption in the country.
Police in northern Afghanistan say “the core” of a Taliban offensive in Kunduz Province has been destroyed and security forces are implementing a plan to block more militants from entering the country from Pakistan.
Afghan security forces battled Taliban militants on the outskirts of Kunduz city on April 28 as the Taliban continued their push for territory in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz Province.
Officials in northeastern Afghanistan say at least 52 people have been killed by a massive landslide in a remote part of Badakhshan Province.
Officials say that 19 kidnapped workers on a landmine clearing project in eastern Afghanistan have been freed by Islamic militants.
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