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Polls have closed in Afghanistan and the tallying has begun in the second round of a presidential vote to pick a successor to Hamid Karzai.
Afghanistan's outgoing President Hamid Karzai has ordered government and security officials not to interfere in the country's June 14 presidential runoff.
Afghan officials say they are trying to secure the release of dozens of university professors and students who were kidnapped on June 10.
Residents of four villages in northern Afghanistan were desperately trying to find missing relatives on June 8, two days after a flash flood washed away 2,000 houses, killed scores of people, and forced thousands to flee.
Afghan officials say they have recovered some 75 bodies from an area of the northern Baghlan Province that was hit by flash floods.
Local officials in Afghanistan say more than 100 people have been killed and hundreds more displaced as a result of a flash flood in the northern province of Baghlan.
Two bombs have exploded outside a hotel in western Kabul where presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah was holding a rally.
Reports from Afghanistan say government security forces have arrested three members of the Taliban who are suspected of being involved in the kidnapping of a Christian Jesuit priest from India who was working in the western province of Herat.
The Afghan government says the five high-ranking Taliban officials released by the United States to Qatar in exchange for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl should have been freed "with no conditions."
Insurgents in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab, which borders Turkmenistan, have reportedly killed three Turkmen border guards.
Twenty-seven police officers have been taken hostage by the Taliban in the northeastern province of Badakshan.
Iran's government has denied a report it is recruiting Afghan refugees living in Iran to fight in Syria.
Top Afghan election official said providing security will be the biggest challenge during the second round of the country's presidential election scheduled for June 14.
Afghan officials are probing reports that claim Iran has been recruiting thousands of Afghan refugees to fight in Syria.
Afghan officials have asked neighboring Pakistan to help provide security during the second round of the country's presidential election in June.
Afghan authorities say 10 people -- including five suicide attackers -- have been killed in violence across the country after the Taliban announced it has launched a spring offensive.
A U.S. drone strike near the Pakistan-Afghan border has killed 10 suspected militants and wounded 14 others.
Afghan election officials have delayed the announcement of final results from the first round of a presidential poll last month to succeed outgoing President Hamid Karzai.
Afghan officials say Taliban fighters have stormed a Justice Department office in the eastern Nangarhar Province.
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