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Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry is expressing confidence it can reach agreement with Iranian authorities to stop hanging Afghan nationals found guilty of crimes in Iran.
Afghan officials say nine people from a single family have been killed by a roadside bomb in western Herat Province.
In Afghanistan, search operations for the bodies of villagers who were buried under a massive mudslide in the northeastern province of Badakhshan have been restarted after relatives of the missing complained about the government’s decision to halt the operation.
Authorities in Afghanistan say they fear that hundreds of people may have been killed by a landslide in the northeast of the country that has buried a village.
A suicide bomber has detonated explosives at a checkpoint on the border between Afghanistan's Panjshir and Parwan provinces, killing at least 13 people.
Authorities in northern Afghanistan say the parents of a 12-year-old Afghan girl have cut off the nose and ears of a cleric to avenge the alleged sexual abuse of their 12-year-old daughter.
An explosion in a coal mine in northern Afghanistan on April 30 has killed at least 17 miners.
Britain's Defense Ministry says all five members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar were British soldiers.
Reports from northwestern Afghanistan say more than 80 people have been killed as a result of flash floods after two days of torrential rain.
At least 42 people have been killed and more than 100 are missing after flash floods hit northern and western Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) has announced it will delay the announcement of full results of the country's presidential election until April 26.
A former mujahedin commander from the days of the Soviet occupation has been shot dead outside his home in Afghanistan's eastern Logar Province.
Rights groups and Afghan religious scholars have demonstrated against the executions of Afghan nationals by Iran.
Afghanistan's elections officials have ordered a recount of ballots in some 500 polling stations.
The telephone conversations of the Afghan president and his ministers have been secured from eavesdropping.
A female member of the Afghan parliament, Maryam Koofi, has been shot and injured by unknown gunmen near her home in Kabul.
A spokesman for Kandahar's provincial government said foreign troops had blocked the main highway after a separate suicide car-bomb attack there earlier, prompting a vehicle to use a dirt road, where a homemade explosive device was planted.
Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission says ballot boxes from 20 of the country's 34 provinces have been transported to Kabul for the final vote count from weekend elections.
Ballot boxes from Afghanistan's 34 provinces are being transferred to the capital Kabul for final counting in the wake of the country's presidential election on April 5.
German photographer Anja Niedringhaus has been killed and her Canadian colleague Kathy Gannon seriously wounded in eastern Afghanistan.
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