A suicide bomber in a minivan has attacked an army base in Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, killing four civilians and two soldiers, officials say.
NATO has expressed support for an offer by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to the Taliban to hold peace talks, describing it as an “unprecedented” opportunity to end fighting in the insurgency-wracked country.
Taliban insurgents have ambushed and killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan's eastern Logar Province, police say.
Turkey says nearly 30,000 Afghans have entered the country since the start of the year, in what Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu called "a new refugee wave."
The Afghan Taliban has announced the launch of its annual spring offensive.
Afghan officials say a new wave of Taliban attacks has killed at least nine soldiers and police officers.
Two near-simultaneous Taliban attacks in Afghanistan's western Badghis province have killed at least 14 troops and police officers, Afghan officials say.
Dozens of suspected Taliban and Islamic State (IS) militants were killed by Afghan security forces in the past 24 hours across the country, Afghan authorities said on April 21.
Afghan authorities have returned the bodies of five Pakistani soldiers killed during a weekend clash along a disputed sector of the two countries' border, and also released a sixth soldier captured by the Afghans, Pakistan's Foreign Office says.
At least six civilians have been shot dead by gunmen in Afghanistan's western Ghor Province, an Afghan official says.
Afghanistan launched its voter registration drive for long-delayed parliamentary and provincial council elections that are scheduled for October.
At least 13 Afghan security forces have been killed in suspected Taliban attacks in western Herat Province, officials say.
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