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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's elder brother, Abdul Qayum Karzai, is apparently planning to enter the race to be elected Afghanistan's next president.
Afghan officials fear scores of casualties after rescuers pulled out two bodies from rubble after an earthquake hit a remote region in northern Afghanistan.
A security official in Afghanistan's northeastern Takhar Province says 17 people have been detained in connection with the alleged gas poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls.
A security official in Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province says eight suspects have been arrested over alleged links to the poisoning of schoolgirls.
Afghanistan's upper house has approved a strategic partnership agreement between Kabul and Washington, clearing the way for a U.S. presence in the country after the withdrawal of most foreign combat troops in 2014.
Afghanistan's Education Ministry has urged Pakistan to reopen supply routes to NATO to allow for the delivery to Afghanistan of 4.5 million textbooks intended for Afghan schoolchildren.
Two foreign aid workers and three Afghan colleagues have been abducted by unknown armed men in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, Afghan authorities reported.
The chairman of Afghanistan's Senate, Fazal Hadi Muslimyar, has confirmed that senators received threats regarding a strategic agreement with United States.
The head of the Afghan High Peace Council has said the assassination plot that killed an influential peace negotiator was planned outside Afghanistan.
A top Afghan peace negotiator and former Taliban deputy minister is gunned down in the capital, Kabul, dealing another blow to the country's attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban.
Afghan authorities have arrested two men on charges of spying for Iran and attempting to carry out terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
An Afghan reporter with Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency has been arrested in Afghanistan on spying charges.
The Afghan government says Afghan security forces are ready to fill any vacuum caused by the possible early withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan.
Reports Say Taliban Has Launched Attacks Paktika Province
RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports that the head of the Afghan National Security Directorate, Rahmatulah Nabil has said a senior member of the Afghan Taliban has been captured and killed along with 25 other members of the militia.
Hundreds of Afghan youths have protested in Kabul against the country's former warlords.
Afghan officials say two suicide attackers and two members of the security forces have been killed in a firefight inside the governor’s compound in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher's office has confirmed that Afghan President Hamid Karzai forced him to cancel a visit to Kabul, saying he was not welcome in the country.
Senior Afghan officials have briefed lawmakers about a finalized draft agreement between Kabul and Washington covering the future of U.S. assistance to Afghanistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office says a draft agreement on a long-term U.S.-Afghan partnership was finalized and initialed in Kabul on April 22 by delegates from the two countries.
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