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Officials in northern Afghanistan say Taliban fighters who launched an offensive against government security forces last month have been joined by foreign fighters from the Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Fighting between Afghan government forces and Tailban fighters raged in at least four parts of Kunduz Province on May 7, as government troops continued their drive to recapture territory that was seized when militants launched a major northern offensive.
An Afghan judge on May 6 sentenced four men to death for participating in the mob killing of a woman who was falsely accused of burning pages from the Koran in Kabul.
A NATO official says Afghan security forces will defeat a Taliban insurgency near the northern city of Kunduz that has caused thousands of people to flee their homes.
An Afghan government delegation is expected to meet with representatives of the Taliban over the next several days in Qatar.
Afghan security forces continued to battle Taliban in the northern city of Kunduz on April 30 in a bid to push them outside of the city limits.
The European Union has urged Afghanistan's government to battle widespread corruption in the country.
Police in northern Afghanistan say “the core” of a Taliban offensive in Kunduz Province has been destroyed and security forces are implementing a plan to block more militants from entering the country from Pakistan.
Afghan security forces battled Taliban militants on the outskirts of Kunduz city on April 28 as the Taliban continued their push for territory in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz Province.
Officials in northeastern Afghanistan say at least 52 people have been killed by a massive landslide in a remote part of Badakhshan Province.
Officials say that 19 kidnapped workers on a landmine clearing project in eastern Afghanistan have been freed by Islamic militants.
At least one person has been killed and 15 injured in an explosion near a police station in Kandahar, the capital of the southern Afghan province of the same name.
Afghan police say government forces have killed 27 Taliban fighters during "intense fighting" that lasted nearly 24 hours in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Police say Afghan security forces have killed at least 18 Taliban militants, including foreign fighters in the northeastern province of Badakhshan.
Afghan officials say at least 10 people were killed when Taliban militants wearing military uniforms mounted a six-hour siege on a court complex on April 9.
A U.S. official says a U.S. soldier was killed in a firefight between Afghan and NATO troops that injured at least two other U.S. soldiers in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
A senior Afghan Shi'ite community leader says Islamic State (IS) militants are responsible for kidnapping dozens of Shi'ite men and boys earlier this year.
Officials say at least 17 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded, including a prominent parliament member, in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan.
Fierce clashes have broken out between Afghan police and Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan.
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