Afghan authorities chopped down poppies in Badakhshan Province amid a new drive to eliminate sources of the opium and heroin trade. But past efforts to replace poppies have faltered as farmers say they can't survive on what they earn from alternative crops.
Three Afghans and three Iranians will be part of a refugee team of 29 athletes competing across 12 sports at next month's Tokyo Olympics.
The Taliban has captured another district center in Afghanistan, adding to the insurgent group's recent military gains since the start of the withdrawal of international troops from the war-torn country.
Human Rights Watch is urging countries with troops departing Afghanistan to accelerate programs to resettle the Afghan staff who served with them during two decades of war.
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.
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