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Afghan Activists Urge Progress In ICC War Crimes Probe
Afghan human rights groups urged the International Criminal Court on Wednesday to speed up a war crimes probe in their...
Afghan Women Swimmers Defy Threats For Olympic Dream
There are just 30 pools in Afghanistan, only one which welcomes girls -- and it is facing militant threats for doing...
Pakistan PM Orders Reopening of Border With Afghanistan
Pakistan on Monday ordered the border with Afghanistan to be reopened "immediately", a month after it was closed amid...
Kidnappings Blight War-Scarred Kabul City
The bruises, scabs and chain markings have long faded but Haji Ghulam is still visibly traumatised by his month-long...
US Deploys More Troops In Syria, Turning Up Heat On IS
The United States turned up the heat on the Islamic State group Thursday, sending an additional 400 US troops into...
Afghanistan: IS Gunmen Dressed As Medics Kill 30 At Kabul Military Hospital
More than 30 people have been killed after attackers dressed as doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul,...
Five Troops, 10 Militants Dead In Pakistan Border Raid
Five Pakistani soldiers and 10 militants were killed in a coordinated overnight raid at several border posts on the...
Taliban Claim Attacks In Afghan Capital, At Least 15 Dead
Afghan Taliban militants said they attacked police, military and intelligence targets in Kabul on Wednesday, as...
Afghan Villagers Flee Pakistani Cross-Border Firing
Hundreds of Afghan families have been displaced by cross-border rocket and artillery fire by Pakistani troops, an aid...
Rights Group Raps Pakistan For ‘forced’ Repatriation of Afghans
Pakistan is conducting the mass repatriation of Afghan refugees through coercion, threats and abuse, Human Rights Watch...
Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Six In Afghanistan’s Helmand
At least six people were killed Saturday when a Taliban bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into Afghan soldiers who...
Afghan Woman’s Ears Cut Off By Husband
A 23-year-old Afghan woman has described to the BBC how her husband tied her up and cut off both her ears in a domestic...
Afghan Vice-President Dostum Accused of Sex Assault
A senior official in Afghanistan says he was violently kidnapped and sexually molested by Vice-President Abdul Rashid...
Afghan Parliament Disqualifies 2 More Ministers
Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of parliament disqualified two more cabinet ministers Sunday over failure in...