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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.
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.
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