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The new leader of an Afghan Taliban splinter faction has offered words of support for Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda militants, but says that they are not welcome to operate in Afghanistan.
Afghan lawmakers have condemned and ordered an investigation into the stoning death of a young woman accused of adultery.
The governor of Afghanistan's central Ghor Province has attested to the authenticity of a video that shows a young woman being stoned to death in Afghanistan.
Afghan officials say the Taliban has stoned to death a 19-year-old woman in the city of Firoz-Koh in Ghor Province.
One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Afghanistan in decades has rocked the country's north, leaving heavy casualties and damage in its wake across South Asia.
Afghan officials say security forces have retaken the Ghormach district in the northwestern Faryab Province after it was overrun by Taliban militants several days ago.
Afghan security forces have launched a two-pronged offensive to take on the Taliban in areas where the militant group has made gains in recent days.
Police in northwestern Afghanistan say 18 police officers were captured by the Taliban when the militant group seized a remote district in Faryab Province.
The female governor in Afghanistan's western Ghor Province says she has received death threats from armed strongmen and fears for her life.
The governor of Kunduz Province, whose whereabouts have been unknown to journalists in Kabul for the last two days, has reappeared in Kabul and is vowing to spill his "last drop of blood" to recapture his provincial capital.
With the Taliban in control of much of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, and government forces engaged in a counteroffensive to take it back, residents say they're bracing for heavy fighting.
The U.S. military says it has carried out air strikes against Taliban forces overnight in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz as security forces battle the Islamic militants for control of the city.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has called for a "holy war" against corruption, which he said is a "cancerous lesion" threatening the survival of the state.
The Taliban has admitted that it covered up the death of its leader Mullah Mohammad Omar for more than two years, confirming that he died in 2013 as was first claimed by Afghanistan’s intelligence.
Afghan Taliban fighters have seized the administrative headquarters of the Musa Qala district in Helmand Province after a week of heavy fighting, the latest in a series of setbacks for Afghan government security forces in the area.
Officials say 11 people have died after a large fire at a natural gas terminal in the western Afghan city of Herat.
Afghanistan's intelligence agency says the leader of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group Jundullah has been killed in the country's north.
Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has survived an ambush by suspected Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan.
First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has vowed that Afghanistan's volatile northern Faryab Province will soon be fully "cleared" of Taliban and other militants, as he leads an ongoing security operation in the area.
Afghanistan has summoned Pakistan’s ambassador to explain a battle between the security forces of the two countries that killed up to eight Afghan border police.
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