At least seven Afghan soldiers were killed and 21 wounded in two Taliban suicide attacks in Kabul on October 1. The attacks came a day after Afghanistan signed a deal with Washington allowing U.S. troops to stay in the country past the end of 2014. (Reuters)
Ashraf Ghani was sworn in as the new president of Afghanistan at a ceremony in Kabul on September 29. The outgoing president, Hamid Karzai, inspected the troops for a last time before embracing his successor.
Thousands of tribespeople displaced by the Pakistani military’s ongoing offensive against Islamic militants blocked traffic on a major highway in the northwestern city of Bannu September 18. They demanded the military lift road blocks and allow them to return home.
Three soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed and at least 13 civilians injured when a Taliban suicide bomber hit a military convoy near the U.S. embassy on September 16. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan).
The members of the National Cycling Team of Afghanistan face frequent criticism and even violence from men who consider their behavior to be un-Islamic. But that hasn't deterred them from training hard, competing abroad, and encouraging other young women to exercise their hard-won freedoms.
Severe flooding in Pakistan's Punjab and Kashmir provinces has destroyed thousands of homes and large areas of farmland, and caused at least than 231 deaths. The combined death toll from the floods in Pakistan and Indian-administered Kashmir has risen to more than 400.
Crowds of protesters clashed with police in Islamabad on September 1 after they broke through the main gates into the Pakistan Secretariat area, which houses government ministries as well as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's official residence. (Reuters)
Pakistani paramilitary forces entered the headquarters of the state television channel PTV in Islamabad on September 1 after a crowd of antigovernment protesters stormed the building and took the channel off the air. Many protesters chanted, "Long live the Pakistan army!" as soldiers arrived.
Antigovernment protests continue in Pakistan, wildfires burn in Kyrgyzstan, officials want to reduce lavish parties in Afghanistan, and a cricket tourney in Kabul.
Opposition protesters hold their ground in Islamabad, displaced people in northwest Pakistan face expulsion from their temporary homes, shelling hits civilian homes in Iraq's Anbar Province, and Socialist Party supporters march in Moldova.
Progress in Afghanistan's presidential election vote recount, protests against Russian minister in Moldova, support in Georgia for jailed Azerbaijani activists, plus stories from Russia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Armed men attacked NATO fuel tankers near Peshawar in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district on August 21, killing two drivers bound for Afghanistan and injuring a third. Witnesses said the attackers shot the drivers, then detonated explosives, setting the three tankers on fire.
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