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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."
Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry has rejected a U.S. government audit warning that Afghan security forces are ill-prepared to maintain NATO-built bases on their own beyond 2014.
An Afghan official has told RFE/RL on condition of anonymity that Afghanistan's next presidential election will be held on April 5, 2014.
A suicide bomber has detonated explosives inside a mosque in northwestern Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 70 others.
Pakistan's president and the leader of a Pakistani party have sent separate letters to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, reassuring him of their cooperation in the joint fight against terrorism.
A spokesman for Afghanistan's Mining Ministry says that Canadian company Terraseis has located a large oil field in the northwestern part of the country.
An Afghan police officer and cook have poisoned their colleagues at a checkpoint in an assault coordinated with insurgent fighters that left six dead.
An Afghan lawmaker alleged that the country's second vice-president, Muhammad Karim Khalili, recently bailed out a warlord accused of murder, kidnapping and bribery, among other crimes.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has arrived in Kabul for meetings with the Afghan president and other key leaders, with international forces' planned withdrawal in two years' time likely high on the agenda.
An Afghan regional official told RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan that 45 Afghan soldiers and eight civilians were wounded in a suicide bombing near an Afghan-NATO military compound in the east of the country.
Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry has criticized a Pakistani politician who characterized the fighting in Afghanistan as a "jihad," or Islamic holy war.
Millions of students in Afghanistan have participated in nationwide prayers for the recovery of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old girl shot and gravely wounded this week by the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
Afghan security officials say they have expelled 35 foreign Islamic clerics from southern Afghanistan.
A U.S. official says a suspected insider attack by a member of Afghan security forces killed a U.S. soldier, bringing to 2,000 the number of U.S. military deaths in the 11-year-old conflict.
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