At least 11 civilians, including three children, have been killed in northwest Afghanistan when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, officials said on June 6.
At least 14 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed and another 18 wounded in a Taliban attack in Qaisar district of the northern province of Faryab, local officials said on June 6.
Taliban militants launched an attack against Afghan security forces in the northern province of Baghlan on June 5, killing at least eight people, according to a security official.
An Afghan news anchor was killed in a blast in western Kabul, the latest of a series of attacks on journalists in the country.
An Afghan air strike on an abandoned army base captured by the Taliban has killed multiple civilians in southern Helmand as heavy fighting was reported across the war-torn country.
The United States has announced more than $266 million in new humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan as U.S. troops exit the war-torn country.
Afghan officials say that at least eight people have been killed in two bomb blasts targeting minibuses in the capital.
The U.S. military says air and ground operations it conducted in Afghanistan last year unintentionally killed 20 civilians.
Pregnant women in Afghanistan face high risks of complications or death in childbirth, and there are dangers to their infants resulting from poverty and limited access to care. Some health experts are encouraging mothers to take more time between pregnancies to reduce some of the risks.
At least 10 civilians have been killed in two blasts in the western part of Kabul, Afghan security officials said, amid an uptick in violence across Afghanistan since the start of the international military withdrawal.
The Taliban has made significant military gains since the start of the international military withdrawal on May 1, seizing government-held districts and overrunning military bases in Afghanistan.
NATO's foreign and defense ministers are meeting on June 1 to plan the bloc's first summit with U.S. President Joe Biden and discuss the winding down of the operation in Afghanistan after two decades of war.
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