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A senior NATO official says the alliance is prepared to sign a long-term strategic pact with Afghanistan, but only after Kabul concludes a security deal with Washington.
The upper house of the Afghan parliament has discussed the possibility of delaying April's presidential election because of extreme winter weather in parts of the country.
An Afghan rights watchdog says there has been a dramatic increase in the number of reported cases of violence against women this year compared to 2012.
A 20-year-old Afghan girl and a young man have been shot dead in northern Afghanistan after apparently attempting to elope.
An influential Afghan politician has opposed President Hamid Karzai's plea to postpone signing a security pact with the United States.
Police say a bomb has exploded near the venue where thousands of influential Afghan figures will gather next week to debate a key U.S.-Afghan security pact.
A Hizb-e Islami official says neither the militant group's leader, former Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, or any other member of the insurgent group will attend the Afghan government's loya jirga in Kabul on November 21.
The Afghan Taliban is urging members of an upcoming grand council not to approve a security pact between the United States and the government of President Hamid Karzai.
Seven dead bodies have been found on the outskirts of Qalat, the capital of Afghanistan's southern Zabul Province.
The Australian ambassador to Afghanistan says his government has offered to keep up to 400 troops in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of U.S.-led NATO forces in 2014.
A council of religious authorities in western Afghanistan has denounced what it calls “immoral” shows on Afghan television.
Former Commerce and Finance Minister Anwarul Haq Ahadi is the only widely recognized hopeful among those whose applications were nixed.
Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) says an investigation into an explosion in Logar Province that killed Governor Arsala Jamal on October 15 shows the explosive material was placed inside a Koran.
In a speech on October 15 to mark the occasion of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged Taliban militants to stop fighting and join the peace process.
The governor of Afghanistan's eastern Logar Province has been killed in a bomb blast.
Former Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum has apologized for his role in the country's civil war.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he will convene a Loya Jirga, or grand assembly of elders, to discuss a security agreement with the United States.
The last day of the registration process, which has been marked by deals among regional strongmen, Western-trained technocrats, and tribal leaders in intense political maneuvering, was October 6.
At least 13 former government figures and warlords have registered as candidates for Afghanistan's presidential election, just before the process was to close on October 6.
Four Afghan Army soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the Nawa district of southern Helmand Province.
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