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At Least 20 Killed In Shiite Mosque Attack In Afghanistan’s Herat

A suicide bomber and a gunman killed more than 20 people at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's main western city of Herat...

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IS Claims Attack On Iraq Embassy In Kabul

The Islamic State group claimed it had attacked the Iraqi embassy in Kabul Monday, as a series of explosions and the...

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Kabul Attack: Gun Battle and Suicide Bombing In Afghan Capital

Afghan security forces are battling gunmen following a suicide attack outside the Iraqi embassy in the capital, Kabul....

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Three Strikes For Pakistan’s Political Survivor Sharif

Pakistan's three-time premier Nawaz Sharif, whose power base earned him the moniker "Lion of Punjab", is a political...

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War-Torn Kabul Pulls Down Concrete Blast Walls

The blast walls that cut through Kabul like ramparts are being pulled down, part of a counter-intuitive makeover by...

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26 Afghan Soldiers Killed In Taliban Attack On Kandahar Base

At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded in a Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar...

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Pakistan Victims Call For Attack Masterminds To Hang

Anger was growing in Pakistan Tuesday as the grief-stricken relatives of 26 people killed by a suicide bomber in Lahore...

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Violence Against Afghan Journalists Soars

At least 10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in the first half of 2017, a 35 percent surge from last year, a...

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Mattis Blasts Pentagon Over Pricey Afghan Uniforms

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has issued a sharp rebuke after the Pentagon wasted millions of dollars buying the...

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Blast Kills At Least 25, Injures Dozens In Pakistan’s Lahore

An explosion killed at least 25 people and injured dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore...

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Blast Kills At Least 20, Injures Dozens In Pakistan’s Lahore

An explosion killed at least 20 people and injured dozens in a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Lahore...

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At Least 35 Killed In Taliban Attack On Central Afghan Hospital

At least 35 people were killed when the Taliban attacked a hospital in central Ghor province over the weekend, a...

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At Least 24 Killed In Kabul Car Bombing

At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in...

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At Least 8 Killed In Kabul Car Bombing

At least eight people have been killed and ten wounded after a car bomb rocked western Kabul on Monday, an official...

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Afghanistan’s Shiites Mark Anniversary of Deadly Attack

Silently, the figures climb the hill in a dusty breeze to reach the gravestones of their loved ones. The site west of...

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Afghan Police Search For Villagers After Mass Kidnapping

Afghan police on Sunday launched a search for some 30 villagers still missing two days after a mass kidnapping blamed...

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70 Villagers Kidnapped In Afghanistan, At Least 7 Killed

Seventy Afghans were abducted Friday from their village along the main highway in the south of the country, and at...

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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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16 Afghan Police Killed In US Strike

A US airstrike killed 16 Afghan police and wounded two others in Helmand province, officials said Saturday. The...