A powerful suicide bombing in the Afghan capital has killed at least eight people and filled the local hospital with injured men, women, and children.
A new United Nations report says a growing number of women and children are being killed and hurt in Afghanistan.
Afghan media suspect Pakistan of using the recently confirmed death of Mullah Omar to manipulate political negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
A former Taliban official says the newly elected leader of the militant group faces significant opposition from within.
Pakistan has announced that peace talks between Afghan government negotiators and the Taliban have been postponed after the reported death of Mullah Omar.
The Afghan government says Taliban leader Mullah Omar's absence will pave the way toward peace. But skeptics counter that his death could in fact complicate the peace process.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on July 30 issued its first official statement about the reported death of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, saying Islamabad can neither confirm nor reject the reports.
The Afghan government has made a surprise announcement, saying it's investigating reports of the long-suspected death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the spiritual leader of the Afghan Taliban. We look back at the life of the reclusive militant leader.
An official from Afghanistan's National Security Council told RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan on July 29 that the government has confirmed Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has been dead since 2013.
The inclusion of India and Pakistan into the SCO does boost the group's international profile, but it could come at the expense of the Central Asian members.
Fierce fighting continues in northern Afghanistan's Faryab Province and according to one member of parliament from the region, the militants have the upper hand and the situation is close to disastrous.
The Afghan intelligence agency says the leader of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region has been killed in a air strike.
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