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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's spokesman has dismissed a "New York Times" report claiming U.S. President Barack Obama is considering an expedited and complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan as a tactic "aimed at putting pressure on Afghanistan."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that a recent Taliban attack on the presidential palace will not deter him from moving ahead with the peace process.
Afghan security forces have fought off an attack naer the presidential palace in Kabul, reportedly killing all the attackers.
Local officials say at least 18 Taliban militants were killed by Afghan security forces in the northern province of Konduz.
U.S. officials say they will sit down with the Taliban "within days" to begin the "first step on a long road" toward ending the 12-year-old war in Afghanistan.
The governor of Afghanistan’s northern Jowzjan Province says his house has been attacked by ethnic Uzbek commander Abdul Rashid Dostum's militia.
Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says roadside bomb attacks have killed 10 Afghan soldiers since June 16.
The police chief of Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province has escaped a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy.
Six policemen have been shot dead at an outpost in southern Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office says 17 people have been killed and 39 wounded by a Taliban suicide attack at the entrance of the Supreme Court in Kabul.
Provincial officials say at least 18 people were injured in a suicide attack in Afghanistan's southern Zabul Province.
Four foreign soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan.
The government of Afghanistan says it has reached out to neighboring Iran as the Taliban confirmed it had held talks with Iranian officials.
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."
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