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Mortar shells exploded Thursday outside a ceremony in the Afghan capital Kabul attended by the country's chief executive and a former president. Both men were unharmed, but three others were killed, a government official said. Nusrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said 31 ...
The Taliban's new political leader is expected to join meetings with U.S. officials in Qatar imminently, Taliban sources said Saturday as the latest round of talks to find ways to end the 17-year Afghan war entered a sixth day. The peace talks, initially slated for ...
At least 65 killed in Taliban attack on Afghan intelligence base: sources
At least 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, security sources said Tuesday, raising the toll substantially from the 12 announced previously. Militants detonated a vehicle packed with explosives at the training facility before gunmen arrived in a car ...
29 killed as gunmen storm Kabul government building amid U.S. withdrawal reports
Gunmen armed with assault rifles and explosives stormed a government building in the Afghan capital Monday, killing 29 people, wounding more than 20 and terrorizing hundreds in a brazen, eight-hour long assault that ended with the death of the attackers, authorities said. The toll could ...
U.S. admits airstrike caused civilian casualties amid Taliban attacks in Afghanistan
Taliban insurgents staged a coordinated attack targeting a security firm in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 19 others, as the U.S. said an airstrike hours earlier in Helmand province that reportedly killed civilians was conducted by American ...
U.S. envoy hopes for peace deal with Taliban in 2019: reports
Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, hopes to cement a peace deal with Taliban insurgents by April, local media reported Sunday. Khalilzad, in Kabul to lead talks between the United States, the Taliban and the Afghan government, told reporters he hopes "a peace ...
At least seven killed in suicide attack on Kabul commemorations
A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up near a convoy of gunmen commemorating the death anniversary of a famed resistance leader in Kabul on Sunday, killing at least seven people, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest deadly ...
At least 20 killed, including two journalists, in twin blasts at Kabul wrestling club
At least 20 people have been killed including two Afghan journalists after twin blasts at a Kabul wrestling club on Wednesday that left another 70 wounded, officials said, in the latest assault on the capital. An hour after a suicide bomber blew himself up inside ...
New U.S. general takes over command of NATO forces in Afghanistan, but peace still elusive
U.S. Army General Scott Miller assumed command of NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday, arriving as Washington faces growing questions over its strategy to force the Taliban into talks to end the 17-year conflict. Miller, former commander of the U.S. military's Joint Special Operations Command, ...
Islamic State takes credit as gunmen attack intelligence center in Kabul
Gunmen attacked an area around a security base and training center for Afghanistan's intelligence service in Kabul on Thursday, holding off security forces for hours before being killed. The incident comes at a time of high tension after a series of attacks across Afghanistan, including ...
Militants launch attack on midwife training center in Afghanistan city
A militant attack on a midwife training center in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday killed at least two people and wounded five, officials said, after the more than six-hour assault was brought to an end by security forces. At least 67 people, including students and teachers, ...
Islamic State takes credit as rush-hour suicide blast near Kabul ministry kills at least seven
An apparent suicide blast close to a government ministry in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday killed at least seven people and wounded more than 15, officials said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The attack, which targeted civil servants leaving work in the ...
