U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has set out a series of steps to reinvigorate the stalled peace process between the Afghan government and the Taliban, according to a letter from Blinken to President Ashraf Ghani published by Afghanistan's Tolo News.
The chief prosecutor of the Afghan National Directorate of Security has been assassinated in a car-bomb attack.
Afghanistan's president said he was open to holding new elections as a way to transfer power, but insisted any new government should emerge only through the democratic process.
At least 14 people were killed after an avalanche hit a gold mine in a remote area of northern Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban, officials said on March 5.
The abduction of a child in northern Afghanistan has shocked the country’s Turkmen minority, prompting them to protest and shut the country’s northern river ports and border crossings with its Central Asian neighbors.
The U.S. State Department said a group of seven other “extraordinary” women leaders and activists from Afghanistan who were assassinated while serving their communities will also receive an honorary award.
At least seven members of Afghanistan's persecuted Hazara ethnic group were murdered in the country's restive east, officials said on March 4, in the latest attack to target the largely Shi'ite minority.
Afghan officials say a female doctor died in a bomb blast in the eastern city of Jalalabad in what appeared to be another targeted killing in the war-torn country.
The United States has proposed convening a United Nations-sponsored international conference on Afghanistan, a senior U.S. State Department official said.
Three young women working for a TV station in the Afghan city of Jalalabad have been shot dead. Islamic State militants claimed responsibility, but the local police chief says an arrested suspect was a Taliban member. In December, a female journalist from the same TV station was also killed.
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a Kabul University professor and religious scholar in the Afghan capital, a day after three female employees of a television channel were gunned down in the east of the war-torn country.
Three female employees of an Afghan television channel have been killed in two separate attacks in the eastern Nangarhar Province on March 2. (Radio Free Afghanistan)
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