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Two Afghan lawyers in Puli Khumri, the capital of the country's northern province of Baghlan, were killed in a bomb attack, the latest in a string of targeted killings in Afghanistan.
A suicide attack appeared aimed at removing a defensive blockade in northern Syria’s besieged town of Kobani and clearing a way for Islamic State militants to advance, but Kurdish defenders repelled a follow-up ground assault by a group of IS militants in a fierce battle less than one kilometer from the Turkish border.
A senior official in eastern Afghanistan says a NATO air strike has killed seven civilians, but NATO and U.S. officials say the victims were militants.
Afghan police say two gunmen dressed in police uniforms stormed into a police headquarters building in the northern province of northern Balkh Province and opened fire, killing two officers.
Reports say a suicide blast has killed a police officer in south Afghanistan.
Five Afghan men convicted for the gang rape of four women near Kabul in late August are due to be hanged on October 8.
Local officials say hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a district in the strategic Ghazni Province, southwest of Kabul, killing nearly 20 people, including women and children.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he expects that security agreements with the United States and NATO will be signed by Afghanistan's new leadership "in the next few days, after the inauguration of the president-elect."
Afghan officials say the Taliban has killed two high-school students in the northeastern Konar Province after accusing them of spying for the government.
The U.S. ambassador in Kabul brokered talks between Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates on September 18, a day after negotiations on forming a unity government stalled in a dispute over when and how to release the final election results.
The office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai reported "progress" in talks with presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah in a bid to end the country's crisis over the disputed presidential election.
An Afghan appeals court on September 15 overturned death sentences against two men in a gang-rape case, while upholding death sentences against five others.
One of Afghanistan’s two rival presidential candidates has said that talks on a national unity government will continue but that the country cannot accommodate two leaders.
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says he will not accept the results of the country's June 14 runoff vote and that efforts to agree on a national unity government with his rival are deadlocked.
The condemned men were convicted of stopping a wedding convoy of vehicles in late August, while dressed in police uniforms and carrying guns, then pulling four women out and beating, robbing, and gang-raping them.
An Afghan electoral official says the audit and recount of all 8 million votes in Afghanistan's disputed presidential election is complete.
An Afghan delegate at the NATO summit in Britain has reportedly claimed asylum upon arriving in London.
The Taliban has struck government compounds in eastern Afghanistan in an attack that left at least 31 people dead and dozens of others wounded.
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has pulled out of the UN-supervised audit of votes cast in the country's June 14 runoff, casting the disputed election deeper into disarray and clouding the chances for a swift resolution.
An official says Taliban militants have beheaded a village mullah in Afghanistan's western Farah Province after accusing him of cooperating with the government.
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