Afghan police say a group of insurgents has tried to storm a government building in eastern Afghanistan, setting off a firefight that has killed at least four people.
A video showing US forces urinating on dead Taliban fighters prompted anger in Afghanistan on Thursday, but the insurgent group said it would not harm nascent efforts to broker peace talks.
A suicide bomber in a car killed the governor of Panjwai district in southern Kandahar province on Thursday, Afghan officials said.
The Taliban's political wing is ready to enter peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan, but the insurgents will in the meantime continue their armed struggle, the group said on Thursday.
A 39-second video purporting to show Marines urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan is straining US-Afghan relations but is not expected to undo months of work aimed at brokering peace with the Taliban.
The US has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay in return for the Afghan insurgents’ agreement to open a political office for peace negotiations in Qatar, the Guardian has learned.
Officials say three explosions in a day have killed 13 people in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. The dead include a child and four police officers.
Two British nationals have been detained in the Afghan capital in possession of dozens of AK-47 assault rifles with the serial numbers erased, a government official said on Tuesday.
The Taliban on Tuesday confirmed they had come to an "initial agreement" to open a political office overseas as part of peace talks with the United States.
A roadside bomb attack killed three NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan, one of the deadliest flashpoints in the 10-year war against Taliban insurgents, the military said today.
Afghanistan signed a deal with China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) on Wednesday for the development of oil blocks in the Amu Darya basin, a project expected to earn the war-torn state billions of dollars over two decades.
A terror attack has been thwarted in Afghanistan's Helmand province, said the provincial government on Sunday after a car bomb was defused.
Teenage Afghan sisters Shabnam and Sadaf Rahimi are taking the fight for women's rights more literally than most of their peers, throwing punches in a ring as members of their country's first team of female boxers.
At least three people, including a child, were killed in Afghanistan's Logar province after a roadside bomb struck their car on Monday.
A suicide bomber blew himself up today during a funeral in northern Afghanistan, killing 10 people, including a member of the national parliament, a government spokesman said.