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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.
Two men have been arrested in Afghanistan's northern province of Konduz in connection with the beheading of a 14-year-old girl.
Afghanistan has closed down three major public universities in the capital, Kabul, for more than a week after sectarian clashes left one student dead and nearly 30 others wounded.
Officials in Afghanistan’s eastern Wardak Province say three people have been killed and dozens more injured in a suicide car-bomb blast.
At least two Afghan guards were killed and five civilians injured in Kabul on November 21 in a suicide bombing near a complex of the international military coalition.
A roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan's western Farah Province has killed at least 17 people, mostly women and children.
U.S. and Afghan representatives have launched crucial talks in Kabul on the status of U.S. forces remaining in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO combat troops in 2014.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has posted a statement indicating that an unspecified number of Pakistani-held Taliban prisoners "are being released."
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