Hosna Jalil, 26, has made history as the first Afghan woman to be appointed as a deputy minister in the Interior Ministry. But her critics say she is too young and inexperienced to be a leader in the country's crucial security apparatus.
Iranian officials and state media are reporting that two security guards have been killed by a suicide attack outside a police headquarters in the southeastern port city of Chabahar.
Meeting in Brussels, NATO’s foreign ministers have reaffirmed their countries' commitment to Afghanistan's "long-term security and stability" despite mounting Afghan casualties in the 17-year conflict.
The death toll among Afghanistan's security forces will no longer be sustainable unless urgent measures are taken to address recruiting and training issues, a top U.S. general has said.
A fourth U.S. soldier has died from wounds suffered last week in a roadside-bomb blast in central Afghanistan, the Pentagon says.
Afghan officials say clashes between two Taliban factions have killed dozens of militants in the country's west, underlying divisions in the militant group that has waged a deadly 17-year insurgency against the Western-backed government in Kabul.
The number of bombs dropped by the U.S. coalition on Afghanistan during the first nine months of 2018 approaches the record set in 2011.
Afghan officials say at least 10 people have been killed and 19 wounded in an attack that targeted a foreign security contractors' compound in the capital, Kabul.
Officials and residents in the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand say scores of civilians have been killed in air strikes.
The European Union has announced 474 million euros ($535 million) in financial aid for Afghanistan as international donors gathered for a UN-backed conference focusing on development, peace, and security in the country.
The U.S. Army says three of its soldiers have been killed in a roadside bombing near the central Afghan city of Ghazni.
The U.S. Army says one of its service members has been killed in Afghanistan, taking the number of U.S. soldiers to die in the war-torn country this year to nine.
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