Afghan officials say an explosion has struck outside an educational center in the capital, Kabul, killing at least 10 people, including schoolchildren.
Afghan officials says Taliban militants have killed six police officers who were guarding one of the country's main irrigation dams in the southwest province of Nimruz.
Local officials say at least 23 Afghan soldiers were killed late on October 22 when Taliban militants overran their security outpost in the southwestern Nimruz Province.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned alleged efforts by Afghan authorities to "silence" anyone reporting on a "potentially unlawful air strike" that the watchdog claims killed at least a dozen children at a mosque complex in northern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials say 12 children were killed and several others were wounded in an air strike on a mosque in the northern Takhar Province.
As rising violence threatens to derail Afghan peace talks, the head of NATO said on October 21 that the military alliance will not leave Afghanistan until security conditions allow, even as some U.S. troops might be hoping to be back home in time for Christmas.
Dozens of security-force personnel have been killed in an ambush in the northern Afghan province of Takhar that officials blamed on the Taliban.
At least 15 people were killed and 10 injured in a stampede that occurred inside a football stadium in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province, where thousands had gathered on October 20 to secure visas from the Pakistani consulate, officials said on October 21.
U.S. envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad warned on October 18 after a car bomb killed 14 people in Ghor in central Afghanistan that continued high levels of violence in the country could threaten the peace process.
Afghanistan’s top peace negotiator has arrived in neighboring Iran as intra-Afghan peace negotiations are under way in the Gulf state of Qatar.
More than a dozen people have been killed and more than 100 wounded after a car bomb was set off outside a local police headquarters in Ghor in central Afghanistan.
A vehicle laden with explosives detonated outside government buildings in the city of Firoz Koh, the capital of Afghanistan's Ghor Province, on October 18. More than a dozen people were killed and at least 100 wounded in the attack. Afghan authorities believe the Taliban was behind the blast.
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