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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.
Trade unions and businesses in the western Afghan city of Herat have vowed to protest indefinitely until authorities arrest the killers of a businessman's son.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says peace efforts with the Taliban should go through the High Peace Council set up by the Afghan government.
Afghan and Pakistani defense officials are discussing bilateral military cooperation, including the prospects of having the Afghan National Army trained by Pakistani military specialists.
Officials in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni say two people were killed in a suicide attack.
Mahmud Karzai, a brother of Afghanistan's president, has told RFE/RL he has renounced his U.S. citizenship in order to launch a political career.
Authorities in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan say U.S. drone attacks have inflicted more than 30 casualties on suspected militants.
Afghan officials have denied claims by the United Nations that prisoners in government custody were being tortured.
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