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Afghan officials say three gunmen have been killed in central Kabul after they fired a barrage of rockets while President Ashraf Ghani was making a speech to mark the start of the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday.
They hadn't played an international soccer match in Kabul since 2013. That changed when the Palestinian National Team arrived to take on Afghanistan on August 19.
Afghan officials say government security forces on August 20 freed 149 people who had been taken hostage by the Taliban several hours earlier in the northern province of Kunduz.
The leader of Afghanistan's Taliban has said there can be no peace in the country as long as foreign "occupation" goes on.
Afghan government forces have retaken most of Ghazni from the Taliban as clashes continued for a fourth straight day after the militant group launched an assault on the eastern city, officials say.
Twenty amputees have begun a trek of more than 600 kilometers across Afghanistan to call for an end to the country's 17-year war.
A suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan has killed three Czech members of NATO's Resolute Support force.
Afghan police say at least 25 people have been killed in twin suicide blasts at a Shi’ite mosque in southeastern Afghanistan.
Police in Kabul have recovered the bodies of three foreign nationals who were abducted and killed in the Afghan capital, local officials say.
Afghanistan's electoral authorities say the country will hold its next presidential election on April 20, 2019, six months after parliamentary polls.
Dozens of Islamic State (IS) fighters have surrendered to Afghan forces, amid intense fighting between followers of the extremist group and the Taliban in the northern province of Jawzjan, an official says.
Afghan officials say at least 11 civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in the western province of Farah on July 31, while unidentified gunmen stormed a government building in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Officials said at least three people were killed when militants attacked a midwife training center in eastern Afghanistan.
At least three people have been injured after several rockets hit the Afghan capital.
At least 14 people, including women and children, have been killed in an Afghan-U.S. air strike near the northern city of Kunduz, officials say.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has dismissed the Taliban’s rejection of his offer of peace talks, suggesting that the militant group can still be persuaded to come to the negotiating table.
A group of activists in Afghanistan have staged a sit-in outside the Russian embassy in Kabul. It's part of their campaign to get world powers to find peaceful ways to end decades of bloody conflict in the country.
A suicide bombing close to a security checkpoint In the Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed at least 12 people, with the extremist group Islamic State (IS) claiming responsibility for the attack.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Taliban fighters to hold peace talks with the Afghan government, as he made an unannounced visit to the Afghan capital.
The Afghan government has sent a delegation to the northern province of Faryab to ease tensions that gripped the area following the arrest of a powerful militia commander.
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