The Taliban has published a 5,000-word biography of Mullah Akhtar Mansur, its recently named successor to spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
After heavy fighting, Talban militants have grabbed a key district in restive Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced on August 25 that human rights activists from Russia, Afghanistan, and the Balkans have been named as the finalists for the 2015 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize.
The United States added the brother of the head of the Haqqani Network to its list of "specially designated global terrorists," the State Department said on August 25.
RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service assembled a panel to discuss the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has survived an ambush by alleged Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan
Pakistan has invited separatists from India's disputed Kashmir region for a meeting in a move that risks further straining efforts to restart a peace dialogue between the two nuclear-armed nations.
A provincial minister has been killed in Pakistan's Punjab region after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the minister's home.
Scores of pro-government militia members were killed in a Taliban suicide attack in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.
Foreign troops were deployed in a gunbattle near Afghanistan's Counternarcotics Ministry in Kabul after a wave of deadly bomb attacks shook the city on August 7, killing at least 35 people.
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.
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