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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed five provincial governors as part of a government-declared effort to fight correction and spur reforms.
Four U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan were shot dead and two wounded on September 16 by at least one Afghan police officer -- the second such attack against NATO-led troops within 24 hours.
Afghanistan's parliament has delayed a confirmation vote for four top security posts -- the ministers of defense, interior, and border and tribal affairs, as well as the director of the national intelligence agency.
The Afghan Ministry of Culture and Information has brought legal proceedings against two popular entertainment television channels.
The Taliban has denounced moves by the United States to blacklist the Pakistan-based Haqqani network as a terrorist organization, saying it would have no impact on militant operations.
Afghan officials say two suicide attackers have blown themselves up near a NATO base in the country's east, killing or wounding scores of Afghans, including eight civilians and four police officers.
Hundreds of Afghans have held a demonstration in Kabul to condemn shelling by Pakistani forces of areas of eastern Afghanistan.
Officials in Afghanistan say that 17 civilians, including two women, have been beheaded in the southern Helmand Province’s Kajaki district on a day of grim reports, with 10 Afghan troops killed and two NATO soldiers shot dead in separate attacks, also in Afghanistan.
Officials said three Afghans from a politically connected family were killed on August 20 when their car struck a roadside bomb in eastern Paktia Province.
Police in Afghanistan's western Herat Province say four people have been killed and 12 injured in a bomb blast at a busy marketplace.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan says that a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has killed 11, including seven U.S soldiers.
Afghan officials say a deal has been struck with Pakistan to investigate a recent surge in cross-border attacks that has raised tensions between the two neighbors.
Many Afghans are angry about attempts by provincial officials to change the name of a street in Mazar-i Sharif to honor a group of Iranian diplomats killed there 14 years ago. RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports on the controversy.
Afghan Taekwondo hero Rohullah Nekpa has won bronze in the men's under-68-kilogram category.
The Afghan intelligence service claims to have arrested senior government officials who spied for neighboring countries.
The International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan has denied a claim by Pakistan's military that ISAF is failing to help stop militants who cross the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Officials say an Afghan police officer and two members of his family have been shot dead by militants in northern Baghlan Province.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the Taliban has for the first time expressed interest in talking with his U.S.-backed government.
An explosion at a marketplace in southern Afghanistan has reportedly killed at least one person and wounded 10 others.
Afghan police say 50 suspected Taliban militants have been killed since early on June 11 in what they described as security "clearance" operations.
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