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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.
Kabul has sent a high-level government delegation to Pakistan to discuss an action plan after Islamabad-hosted peace talks with the Taliban were suspended in July.
Afghanistan’s Taliban has condemned a video that appears to show militants loyal to the Islamic State (IS) group blowing up bound and blindfolded Afghan prisoners with explosives.
Afghan police say at least 22 people were killed in the northern province of Kunduz on August 8 when a Taliban suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a group of pro-government militia and detonated it.
A suicide bomber on August 7 carried out a bomb attack near Kabul’s police academy -- the second major terrorist attack in the Afghan capital within 24 hours.
Fifteen more fatalities have been confirmed from a wave of bomb attacks in Kabul, raising the death toll to 51 in attacks that also wounded nearly 300 people.
At least 17 people have been killed in a military helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry has said that at least 88 "armed insurgents" were killed during the previous 24 hours as a result of antiterrorism operations across the country.
Doctors say a 35-year-old woman has given birth to quintuplets in Afghanistan's northern Samangan Province.
Kabul isn't mourning the death of its elusive and longtime adversary, Mullah Mohammad Omar, and it is making sure the Afghan people don't either.
A former Taliban official says the newly elected leader of the militant group faces significant opposition from within.
A close aide to late Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar said the newly elected leader of the militant group faces significant opposition from within.
Pakistan has announced that peace talks between Afghan government negotiators and the Taliban have been postponed after the reported death of Mullah Omar.
The Taliban has rejected reports that a fresh round of peace talks has been planned with the Afghan government this week.
A spokesman for Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has said that Mullah Mohammad Omar is dead, although no official confirmation of the Taliban leader's death has been issued by the Afghan government.
A government official in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan has said that a group of about 100 Taliban fighters attacked several security outposts in the mountainous region in the past two days.
The second round of peace talks between Afghan and Taliban officials will be held on July 30.
A spokesman for U.S. military forces in Afghanistan says the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2016 has yet to be determined and will be decided in the autumn after an assessment of the capabilities of Afghan government forces.
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar has hailed as "legitimate" peace talks with the Kabul government.
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