U.S. federal authorities have announced that an Afghan man has been brought to the United States to face trial for the 2008 kidnapping of a journalist for The New York Times and two other men in Afghanistan.
A car bomb attack on an Afghan police base and an ongoing gun battle have killed three people and wounded dozens in a city bordering Pakistan, officials said on October 27.
Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior Al-Qaeda leader who was also wanted by the United States.
A Pakistani lawmaker says he has been stopped by authorities upon his arrival in the southwestern city of Quetta to take part in an anti-government rally.
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.
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