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At least one person has been killed and 15 injured in an explosion near a police station in Kandahar, the capital of the southern Afghan province of the same name.
Afghan police say government forces have killed 27 Taliban fighters during "intense fighting" that lasted nearly 24 hours in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Police say Afghan security forces have killed at least 18 Taliban militants, including foreign fighters in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Afghan officials say at least 10 people were killed when Taliban militants wearing military uniforms mounted a six-hour siege on a court complex on April 9.
A U.S. official says a U.S. soldier was killed in a firefight between Afghan and NATO troops that injured at least two other U.S. soldiers in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
A senior Afghan Shi'ite community leader says Islamic State (IS) militants are responsible for kidnapping dozens of Shi'ite men and boys earlier this year.
Officials say at least 17 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded, including a prominent parliament member, in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan.
Fierce clashes have broken out between Afghan police and Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan.
A suicide bomber targeting an Afghan parliamentary deputy has killed three people in the capital, Kabul.
Thousands of people have marched through the Afghan capital for a second straight day demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob after being accused of burning the Koran.
President Ashraf Ghani says Afghanistan and the United States have mutual interests at stake in the fight against terrorism.
Afghan police have started making arrests in connection with the killing of a woman by a mob in central Kabul.
A mob in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed a woman and set her body alight for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran.
A female lawmaker and former Afghan presidential candidate, Shahla Atta, has been found dead.
Afghan security officials said an operation aimed at freeing a group of kidnapped civilians in southern Afghanistan was continuing after a battle on March 4 killed dozens of militants but failed to secure the hostages' release.
Dozens of activists from Afghan nongovernmental organizations have staged a protest in Kabul to call attention to what they say is the growing influence of Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's parliament has said it will leave seven cabinet nominees out of a mandatory parliamentary confirmation because they hold dual citizenship.
Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says government forces have killed 23 Taliban militants during operations in three different parts of the country.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s spokesman said the presidential office was unaware of an Interpol listing for Mohammad Yaqub Haidari, which shows the 52-year-old nominee for agriculture minister is wanted in Estonia for “large-scale tax evasion [and] fraudulent conversion” in cases dating back to 2003.
Afghan security officials say they've arrested five men suspected of supporting the December 16 massacre at a school in Pakistan where more than 150 people were killed, almost all of the children.
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