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A special committee tasked with investigating the status of prisoners at Afghanistan's largest military prison says hundreds of inmates are being held there illegally.
Afghanistan's most prominent Salafi leader has resigned from parliament to contest the April 5 presidential election.
Abdullah Abdullah, a former challenger to incumbent Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has entered next year's presidential race.
Afghanistan has begun two days of official mourning for people killed by the former communist regime.
Afghanistan's former finance minister, Ashraf Ghani, has announced he will run for president, becoming the first big name to declare his candidacy.
Police say the Taliban shadow governor for a district in northern Afghanistan's Konduz Province has been killed in an air strike.
A one-day international conference of Islamic scholars in Kabul has ended without an expected joint statement condemning suicide attacks.
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry has revised the death toll from a deadly ambush in northern Badakhshan Province on September 18.
A northern district governor and former Afghan senator has defected to the Taliban, citing corruption and a lack of faith in the central government and its Western supporters.
The Dutch Embassy in Kabul has released the names of some 5,000 Afghans who were arrested, tortured, executed, or who went missing in the late 1970s.
Taliban fighters have ambushed a police convoy in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan Province, killing 20 officers and wounding 12 others.
A day after the highest-ranking policewoman in Afghanistan's Helmand Province was killed, five have been apprehended in connection with her death.
Officials say a top female police officer in southern Afghanistan who took over after the death of her predecessor, also a woman, has died of injuries suffered in a gun attack near police headquarters.
At least three civilians were killed and six more injured by a car bomb near the southern city of Kandahar on September 14.
Taliban militants have launched an attack near the U.S. Consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat.
The Afghan government has welcomed news that Pakistan is ready to release former Afghan Taliban second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in an effort to help end nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan.
At least seven civilians were killed after a passenger bus hit a roadside bomb in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni.
At least one person has been killed when a protest outside the Iranian Consulate in Afghanistan's western Herat Province turned violent.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has urged Afghan parents to send their daughters to school.
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