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Police in northern Afghanistan said on December 12 that three militant commanders linked to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan were killed as a result of an overnight police operation in Baghlan Province.
Two suicide attacks in Kabul -- one targeting a play staged at a French-financed school -- killed at least nine people on December 11 in the latest wave of violence there as most NATO troops forces pull out of Afghanistan.
A suicide bombing at a funeral in northern Afghanistan has killed at least nine people.
Afghan officials say a Taliban attack on a compound for foreign aid workers in western Kabul has ended with three attackers and at least two civilians killed after a battle on November 29 that lasted several hours.
Officials say Afghan security forces have driven out Taliban fighters from a key military base in southern Helmand Province after hours of heavy clashes.
Officials say a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle has struck a British Embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing one British citizen and at least five Afghans.
Afghan authorities say at least eight people, including two NATO service members, have been killed in separate bomb attacks.
Security officials says Afghan troops have repelled Taliban insurgents from areas in western Farah Province the militants attacked earlier in the day.
Afghan police said lawmaker Shukriya Barakzai survived a suicide attack on her vehicle on November 16 but that three civilian bystanders were killed in the blast, which took place near the parliament building in Kabul.
Afghan police say a suspected suicide bomber was killed by international forces in eastern Afghanistan on November 13 when he tried to attack a convoy of NATO-led troops.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has vowed during a visit to Kabul that the alliance will continue to support Afghanistan after foreign combat troops withdraw by the end of the year.
A leader of the Jundullah militant group has reportedly been killed in northern Afghanistan
Two Afghan lawyers in Puli Khumri, the capital of the country's northern province of Baghlan, were killed in a bomb attack, the latest in a string of targeted killings in Afghanistan.
A suicide attack appeared aimed at removing a defensive blockade in northern Syria’s besieged town of Kobani and clearing a way for Islamic State militants to advance, but Kurdish defenders repelled a follow-up ground assault by a group of IS militants in a fierce battle less than one kilometer from the Turkish border.
A senior official in eastern Afghanistan says a NATO air strike has killed seven civilians, but NATO and U.S. officials say the victims were militants.
Afghan police say two gunmen dressed in police uniforms stormed into a police headquarters building in the northern province of northern Balkh Province and opened fire, killing two officers.
Reports say a suicide blast has killed a police officer in south Afghanistan.
Five Afghan men convicted for the gang rape of four women near Kabul in late August are due to be hanged on October 8.
Local officials say hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a district in the strategic Ghazni Province, southwest of Kabul, killing nearly 20 people, including women and children.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he expects that security agreements with the United States and NATO will be signed by Afghanistan's new leadership "in the next few days, after the inauguration of the president-elect."
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