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Afghan officials say the Taliban has killed two high-school students in the northeastern Konar Province after accusing them of spying for the government.
The U.S. ambassador in Kabul brokered talks between Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates on September 18, a day after negotiations on forming a unity government stalled in a dispute over when and how to release the final election results.
The office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai reported "progress" in talks with presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah in a bid to end the country's crisis over the disputed presidential election.
An Afghan appeals court on September 15 overturned death sentences against two men in a gang-rape case, while upholding death sentences against five others.
One of Afghanistan’s two rival presidential candidates has said that talks on a national unity government will continue but that the country cannot accommodate two leaders.
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says he will not accept the results of the country's June 14 runoff vote and that efforts to agree on a national unity government with his rival are deadlocked.
The condemned men were convicted of stopping a wedding convoy of vehicles in late August, while dressed in police uniforms and carrying guns, then pulling four women out and beating, robbing, and gang-raping them.
An Afghan electoral official says the audit and recount of all 8 million votes in Afghanistan's disputed presidential election is complete.
An Afghan delegate at the NATO summit in Britain has reportedly claimed asylum upon arriving in London.
The Taliban has struck government compounds in eastern Afghanistan in an attack that left at least 31 people dead and dozens of others wounded.
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah has pulled out of the UN-supervised audit of votes cast in the country's June 14 runoff, casting the disputed election deeper into disarray and clouding the chances for a swift resolution.
An official says Taliban militants have beheaded a village mullah in Afghanistan's western Farah Province after accusing him of cooperating with the government.
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) has begun invalidating fraudulent votes cast in the June 14 presidential runoff.
The International Red Cross says five of its workers who were abducted for a week in western Afghanistan have been freed after negotiations with the local militia fighters who kidnapped them.
A provincial government spokesman said the truck -- loaded with people and animals -- was traveling through a mountainous area when it crashed.
An Afghan regional security chief has instructed his forces to kill militants detained in battle instead of transferring them to prosecutors to go on trial, in clear violation of international norms.
Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani has cast doubt over a power-sharing deal with his rival, Abdullah Abdullah, saying the accord is ambiguous and needs clarification.
An Afghan official said Taliban militants have killed 20 civilians who refused to pay them "war tax" in northern Kunduz Province.
A suspected Afghan policeman drugged then shot dead six of his colleagues in southern Uruzgan Province in the latest so-called insider attack.
A man in an Afghan army uniform on August 5 fired at foreign troops in a military base, killing at least one person and injuring 14.
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