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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.
A shoot-out with insurgents at Kabul's traffic-police headquarters has come to an end after Afghan security forces killed the five militants barricaded inside the building. Three traffic-police officers were killed and 18 people were wounded.
Afghan officials in the western province of Herat say a suicide bomber and his accomplice were killed when their explosives detonated in a botched attack.
Jalil Jilani, Pakistan's foreign secretary, said at a news conference in Abu Dhabi that Islamabad was coordinating the release of all Afghan Taliban prisoners still in Pakistan's custody.
Suicide bombers have attacked Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security building in the capital.
Washington says it is considering all options for Afghanistan in 2014, including a complete pullout of U.S. troops. The reaction in Kabul ranges from worry to disbelief.
Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry has confirmed that 21 Afghan nationals died when a ship carrying illegal immigrants capsized off the Greek coast earlier this month.
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says it has discovered that the policewoman who shot dead a U.S. civilian police trainer at Kabul's police headquarters on December 25 is an Iranian citizen.
A senior judge has lost his honor and position after his advances for bribes and marriage were exposed by the woman he coveted as a bride.
Officials in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province say actor and film director Zahir Armani has been found dead after being kidnapped earlier this week.
The Afghan intelligence chief who was wounded in a December 6 suicide bombing has been transferred to a hospital in the United States.
Afghanistan's lower house of parliament has voted to start impeachment proceedings against 11 cabinet ministers.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Zardari were expected to discuss the suicide bombing last week that wounded Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid.
The head of Afghanistan's intelligence service has been wounded in a bomb attack in Kabul.
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