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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.
Authorities in the northern Afghan province of Sar-e Pol have launched a probe into a case involving an 11-year-old girl who was married off to an eight-year-old boy.
Human Rights Watch has called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to take urgent action to fight child marriage and domestic violence.
Javed Faisal, a spokesman for the provincial government, said at least six people were killed in the attack on August 31.
Officials in Afghanistan's northern province of Konduz say a district governor has been killed in a suicide bombing attack.
A newly-established alliance of 13 opposition parties in Afghanistan said it will select a single candidate for the 2014 presidential election.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to help arrange peace talks between officials in Kabul and Taliban militants.
Activists in Afghanistan's western province of Herat have protested against what they see as the Iranian interference in the region.
The husband of a female Afghan lawmaker is refuting reports that she has been abducted by insurgents.
Local authorities say a female member of the Afghan parliament has been abducted by suspected insurgents in Afghanistan's southern province of Ghazni.
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