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A senior Afghan military official says Pakistan has promised to remove controversial installations along the disputed border line between the two countries that had prompted anger in Kabul.
In a national security council meeting, Afghan President Hamid Karzai instructed his ministries of Defense, Interior, and Foreign Affairs to take "immediate action" to see the removal of the installations along the British-drawn Durand Line.
Security in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Ghazni was tight as the provincial capital is set to be declared an Islamic capital of culture in 2013.
A NATO helicopter has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing the two crew members onboard.
At least 26 people were killed on April 6 during a battle in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar Province near the border with Pakistan.
Afghanistan's intelligence chief, who was wounded by a suicide bomber, has returned home after four months of medical treatment in the United States.
Taliban fighters have been reportedly forced out of Afghanistan's Warduj district, which borders Tajikistan.
Afghan officials say illegal opium cultivation in the country has increased this year despite efforts to target traffickers and provide farmers with alternative livelihoods.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has arrived on a two-day visit to Qatar, where he will be meeting with officials to discuss the Afghan peace process and the decision to allow the Taliban to open a representative office in Qatar.
Afghan officials say 23 Taliban militants have been killed and another 26 wounded during a two-day military operation that ended late on March 26 in the eastern province of Logar.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has met in Kabul with representatives of Afghan nongovernmental organizations, including Afghan businesswomen.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai after arriving in Afghanistan on an unannounced trip.
Afghan officials say relatives of the speaker of the Afghan parliament's lower house might have been targeted by a suicide bomber in Konduz Province.
Hundreds of women have taken to the streets of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on the eve of International Women's Day in a government-sponsored rally.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have executed 16 Afghan soldiers in the country’s northeast.
The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan says it will no longer publish figures on Taliban attacks.
Speaking to reporters alongside NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on March 4 in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Pakistan has taken "no practical steps" to help neighboring Afghanistan find a peaceful solution to Taliban militancy.
Hundreds of people have attended the funerals of 10 men in Takhar Province, in Afghanistan's northeast, who were recently hanged in Iran reportedly on charges of drug smuggling.
The international forces in Afghanistan have rejected a UN committee's report that U.S. military forces in Afghanistan have killed hundreds of children in attacks over the last four years.
Afghan police say they have arrested six men whom they accuse of planning to carry out suicide bombing attacks.
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