Afghan and NATO warplanes have bombed Taliban positions after insurgents attacked Farah city, the capital of Farah Province in western Afghanistan, close to the Iranian border, Afghan officials say.
Thousands of residents in northwestern Pakistan are staging a sit-in protest to pressure authorities into arresting those responsible for a string of recent murders.
At least 10 people have been killed and more than 40 injured in a coordinated attack by suicide bombers and gunmen at a government building in the city of Jalalabad.
The leader of the U.S. Central Command says the Taliban in Afghanistan “cannot win militarily” despite an uptick in attacks launched by the militants.
Afghanistan’s top security officials and lawmakers are at loggerheads over who is responsible for preventing deadly terrorist attacks in the capital that have killed and injured hundreds this year alone.
The fall of several rural districts in northern Afghanistan this month heralds a new push by the insurgents to tighten their grip on contested regions and threaten elections scheduled for this fall.
Militants are battling security forces in the Afghan capital after Kabul was rocked by a series of explosions, leaving at least six people injured.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has criticized Afghan security forces over air strikes carried out on a village in the northern province of Kunduz in April, saying 36 people -- 30 of them children -- were killed in the operation.
Afghan officials say at least 13 people have been killed and some 30 others wounded in an explosion at a mosque in eastern Khost Province that was being used as a voter registration center.
Three suicide bombers attacked the residence of the police chief of the Afghan city of Kandahar, leaving the militants and at least two police officers dead, officials say.
Afghanistan’s national security adviser wants greater regional antiterrorism cooperation to prevent his country from descending into the sort of abyss into which Syria and Iraq have fallen.
A pair of coordinated suicide bombings claimed to have been carried out by the Islamic State (IS) militant group have rocked central Kabul near the country’s intelligence agency, killing at least 29 people, including two RFE/RL journalists and at least seven other media members.
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