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Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul, killing at least six police officers.
Candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election have canceled their appearances in all televised debates scheduled for this week because of growing insecurity in Kabul.
Oliver Rosenbauer, a representative of WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative, told RFE/RL on March 31 that although "tremendous progress has been achieved in Afghanistan," the country will remain at risk of infection as long as the polio virus circulates in neighboring Pakistan.
Afghan police have killed all five Taliban militants who had attacked the heavily fortified headquarters of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) in Kabul with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.
Police say the siege of a Kabul guest house has ended after security forces killed the last remaining militant inside the building.
A third candidate has quit Afghanistan's April 5 presidential race.
Hundreds of mourners turned out in pouring rain for the funeral of Sardar Ahmad, AFP's senior reporter in Afghanistan, together with his wife and two of their children.
A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation has called on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to sign a security treaty with the United States and asked him to review Afghanistan's position on the release of prisoners considered a security threat by Washington.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has nominated Mohammad Yunis Qanooni to succeed Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim, who died suddenly on March 9.
The ceremony for the former warlord and Afghan Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim started at the Defense Ministry compound, then moved to the presidential palace where government officials, foreign dignitaries, and diplomats paid their respects.
The Taliban are vowing to target Afghanistan's April 5 presidential election.
Afghan officials say Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim has died of natural causes at the age of 56.
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have reportedly killed at least three Turkmen border guards in the northwestern province of Baghdis.
The mayor of the western Afghan city of Herat -- accused of beating a local pediatrician -- has been sacked following a four-day strike by the city's doctors.
Doctors in the western Afghan city of Herat have launched a strike over the alleged beating of a pediatrician by the city's mayor and the mayor's son.
Afghanistan's Defense Minister has paid tribute to at least 20 soldiers who were killed in the deadliest single attack involving the Afghan National Army in at least a year.
Afghanistan’s Taliban says it decided on February 23 to break off Qatar-mediated talks on a prisoner exchange with the United States because of “complexities.”
The Afghan High Peace Council says it has held talks with a Taliban faction in the United Arab Emirates. In a statement, the council said it met in Dubai with a delegation organized by an ex-Taliban minister.
A suicide bomber targeting a Shi’ite cultural center has killed one person and wounded four others in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for opening fire on the convoy of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul.
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