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Officials in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni said at least 25 Taliban fighters were killed and dozens more wounded during overnight clashes with Afghan security forces, backed by local anti-Taliban militiamen.
A Taliban spokesman in Afghanistan says the Taliban did not have any connection to a suicide attack on May 29 on a Red Cross office in Jalalabad.
Six attackers and one police officer have been reported killed in an assault claimed by Taliban insurgents on the governor’s office in Afghanistan’s eastern Panjshir Province.
Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry says the government is investigating reports by a human rights group suggesting Iran has been deporting Afghan refugee children.
Ethnic Hazara student protesters in Kabul have abruptly ended an eight-day hunger strike after lawmakers said their claims of discrimination at Kabul University were untrue.
Dozens of women’s rights defenders have staged a rally in front of Afghanistan’s parliament demanding lawmakers approve a law that bans violence against women.
Fazel Ahmad Manawi, head of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), told reporters at a registration center in Kabul that “today we are happy to have launched the voter registration process."
Police say Taliban gunmen have targeted a UN compound in central Kabul in a coordinated attack, which included explosions and a gunbattle.
A leading press freedom organization in Afghanistan has demanded an investigation into the killing of a journalist who was found dead after being missing for weeks.
The Afghan Finance Minister has rejected a report by a U.S. government watchdog that Kabul has levied nearly $ 1 billion in illegitimate taxes on contractors working on U.S.-funded reconstruction projects,
The U.S. government's leading oversight authority on Afghanistan's reconstruction says the Afghan government has levied nearly $1 billion in taxes on contractors supporting Washington's efforts in the war-torn country.
Iran's ambassador to Afghanistan has visited the Foreign Ministry in Kabul after being summoned by the Foreign Ministry in Kabul over the reported killing of Afghan migrants by Iranian border guards.
Violence has broken out at an anti-Pakistan demonstration in southern Afghanistan, with reports of at least 11 dead.
An Afghan border guard has reportedly been killed and three others injured during a six-hour clash with Pakistani troops along a disputed border line between the two countries.
A number of girls appear to have been poisoned at a school in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Pakistan has closed its main border crossing with Afghanistan along the highway linking Kabul and Islamabad.
Alliance officials said there was no insurgent activity when the plane went down in the province of Zabul.
Afghan officials say 45 people have been killed in a road incident near the southern city of Kandahar.
Afghan authorities say they have arrested five Taliban-linked militants, including a woman, who were planning to launch suicide attacks against civilians later this month.
World leaders are condemning the deadly bombings at the annual Boston Marathon in Massachusetts and offering assistance to U.S. authorities.
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