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Afghan officials say the army has regained control of Sangin district of southern Helmand Province, which was attacked in a major Taliban offensive last week
Afghan officials say the army has regained full control of the last of four districts of southern Helmand Province that were attacked in a major Taliban offensive last week.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Rangin Spanta have agreed to form a working group on joint security efforts against terrorism.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused "foreign interests" of being behind a Taliban offensive in Helmand Province, while other Afghan officials are specifically blaming Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
The resignation of a senior Afghan electoral officer is being widely welcomed as an important step in preserving the integrity of the electoral process.
The head of Afghanistan's National Security Council will soon make an official visit to Pakistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's national security adviser says the number of U.S. troops that will remain in Afghanistan after 2016 has not yet been decided.
Afghan officials say a roadside bomb exploded beside a minibus that was carrying Afghan election workers home from voting stations on the night of June 14, killing 10 adults and a child.
Polls have closed in Afghanistan and the tallying has begun in the second round of a presidential vote to pick a successor to Hamid Karzai.
Afghanistan's outgoing President Hamid Karzai has ordered government and security officials not to interfere in the country's June 14 presidential runoff.
Afghan officials say they are trying to secure the release of dozens of university professors and students who were kidnapped on June 10.
Residents of four villages in northern Afghanistan were desperately trying to find missing relatives on June 8, two days after a flash flood washed away 2,000 houses, killed scores of people, and forced thousands to flee.
Afghan officials say they have recovered some 75 bodies from an area of the northern Baghlan Province that was hit by flash floods.
Local officials in Afghanistan say more than 100 people have been killed and hundreds more displaced as a result of a flash flood in the northern province of Baghlan.
Two bombs have exploded outside a hotel in western Kabul where presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah was holding a rally.
Reports from Afghanistan say government security forces have arrested three members of the Taliban who are suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of a Christian Jesuit priest from India who was working in the western province of Herat.
The Afghan government says the five high-ranking Taliban officials released by the United States to Qatar in exchange for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl should have been freed "with no conditions."
Insurgents in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab, which borders Turkmenistan, have reportedly killed three Turkmen border guards.
Twenty-seven police officers have been taken hostage by the Taliban in the northeastern province of Badakshan.
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