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MSF Reopens Kunduz Facility After Deadly US Hospital Bombing

Medecins Sans Frontiers in Afghanistan on Saturday reopened a small medical clinic in northern Kunduz province where...

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Gunmen Kidnap Afghan Bus Passengers, Killing At Least Seven

Afghan authorities on Wednesday recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of seven passengers kidnapped by gunmen in the...

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Kabul Rocket Kills Woman and Child

A woman and child were killed Wednesday when a rocket struck their house in Kabul, already traumatised by a series of...

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Taliban Kill 13 Pro-Government Fighters In North Afghanistan

The Taliban have killed 13 pro-government fighters in northern Afghanistan, ambushing them as they were on their way to...

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Afghanistan To Hold Delayed Parliamentary Polls In July 2018

Afghanistan will hold its delayed parliamentary elections on July 7, 2018, the top polling official said Thursday,...

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20 Dead As Car Bomb Hits Bank In Southern Afghanistan

Twenty people were killed Thursday when a powerful car bomb struck a bank in Afghanistan's Lashkar Gah city as...

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‘Multiple Casualties As Car Bomb Hits Bank In South Afghanistan’

A powerful car bomb Thursday struck a bank in Afghanistan's Lashkar Gah city when civilian and military government...

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Afghan Taliban Release New Video of US, Australian Hostages

An American and an Australian have appeared in a second Taliban hostage video, nearly a year after they were kidnapped...

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Last Chance For Peace, Afghan President Warns Taliban

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani issued an ultimatum to the Taliban Tuesday, warning them to embrace peace or "face...

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Toll In Last Week’s Kabul Truck Bomb Now Over 150

The death toll from a devastating truck bomb in Kabul's diplomatic quarter last week has jumped to more than 150,...

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Who Carried It Out?

No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for Wednesday's powerful blast that ripped through Kabul's...

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Global Outrage After ‘barbaric’ Kabul Truck Bomb Kills 90

President Donald Trump has condemned the "barbaric" truck-bombing in Kabul in a phone call with his Afghan counterpart,...

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’40 Killed Or Injured’ In Massive Kabul Diplomatic Quarter Blast

At least 40 people were killed or wounded Wednesday as a massive blast ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter,...

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Car Bomber Kills 13 In East Afghanistan On First Day of Ramadan

A suicide car bomber killed 13 people in the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Saturday, officials said, in the first...

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Car Bomber Kills 18 In East Afghanistan On First Day of Ramadan

A suicide car bomber killed 18 people in the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Saturday, the first day of the holy...

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Taliban Attack On Afghan Base Kills At Least 15 Soldiers

At least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their army base in the southern province of...

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Militant Attack On Afghan Army Base Kills 10 Soldiers

At least 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when militants attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar,...

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Security In Afghanistan Likely To ‘deteriorate’

The head of US intelligence agencies offered a pessimistic assessment Thursday of the security situation in...

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Kabul Bomb Attack Targeting Nato Convoy Kills Eight

A suicide attack on a convoy belonging to the Nato mission in Afghanistan has killed at least eight people in Kabul,...