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A senior Afghan official has confirmed that two secret rounds of peace talks between Afghanistan's government and Taliban representatives have been held in Doha, Qatar, since early September.
Afghan officials say hundreds of members of the Afghanistan's security forces have been killed in recent fighting against Taliban militants in and around Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province.
Two separate attacks targeting members of Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority during Ashura commemorations have left several dozen people dead and scores wounded.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a shrine in the Afghan capital, Kabul, that killed 18 people, mostly Shi'ite mourners.
The Afghan government has deployed hundreds of troops to the southern city of Lashkar Gah as Taliban militants threaten to overrun the provincial capital of Helmand Province.
Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled the northern city of Kunduz as clashes continue between government forces and the Taliban, while militants have launched a large-scale attack in the south.
At least three police officers have been killed by a Taliban attack in Kandahar Province, according to a spokesman for the provincial governor.
Afghan officials say government security forces have pushed Taliban militants back from the south side of the city of Kunduz in a battle that is now in its fourth day.
Afghan officials say Taliban forces have fought their way to within 2 kilometers of Uruzgan Province’s capital, Tarin Kot.
Afghan officials say at least to eight people have been killed -- including at least six Taliban fighters -- as a result of a militant attack on a district governor’s office in Logar Province.
At least 13 people, including seven students, were killed during a 10-hour assault by gunmen on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.
Afghan forces have retaken a district in the northeastern Kunduz Province that had been seized earlier by Taliban forces.
The family of a pregnant Afghan girl who was burned to death have demanded that the government bring the perpetrators to justice.
Afghan officials said on June 22 that the Taliban has freed 23 men who were kidnapped a day earlier by militants in southern Afghanistan.
A blast in a village mosque has killed at least four people and wounded nearly 40 others in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said on June 10.
Officials in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz say Taliban militants have killed two of the hostages abducted from a bus convoy this week.
Taliban militants have killed at least 13 people and are holding more than 30 hostage after an ambush on a highway in northern Afghanistan.
Dozens of members of Afghan police forces have been reported killed over the past two days in heavy fighting in the southern province of Helmand.
Pakistan on May 18 is hosting a new round of four-nation Afghan peace talks aimed at reviving long-stalled negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has proposed a reshuffling of his defense and intelligence ministers in the aftermath of a massive deadly terrorist attack in Kabul.
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