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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters mounted their second attack in two days on a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, as American and Taliban negotiators finalized the details of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fistfights broke out and furniture was smashed in Afghanistan's Parliament on Wednesday as disagreement about who should lead the country's new lower house dragged into its second [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck a joint patrol of NATO and Afghan forces near a large military base just outside the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing at least [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents are refraining from attacking Afghan civilians for the first time in many years, according to Afghan officials and the insurgents themselves. The change in tactics [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Suicide bombers struck a government building in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Monday, killing at least 17 people, Afghan officials said. Another government office, in the eastern [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber targeted a gathering of Afghan religious scholars who were meeting on Monday to condemn such attacks, and the authorities said at least 12 people [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban claimed to have captured the capital of the western province of Farah on Tuesday, while government officials and their American military backers vowed that the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents killed at least 15 people in three separate attacks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, and six policemen died in an airstrike for which officials blamed the American [...]

GHAZNI CITY, Afghanistan -- What does it feel like to live in an Afghan city on the brink of falling to the Taliban? The residents of Ghazni, a provincial capital [...]

Byline: JAWAD SUKHANYAR GHAZNI CITY, Afghanistan -- What does it feel like to live in an Afghan city on the brink of falling to the Taliban? The residents of Ghazni, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber killed at least 57 people on Sunday as they lined up at a government office in Kabul to register to vote, raising new concerns [...]

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- Four attacks across Afghanistan on Saturday night and Sunday killed at least 26 government security officers, while two schools were also set ablaze, according to Afghan officials. [...]

Byline: THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF and JAWAD SUKHANYAR WASHINGTON -- Once described as an ill-equipped band of insurgents, the Taliban are increasingly attacking security forces across Afghanistan using night-vision goggles and lasers [...]

WASHINGTON -- Once described as an ill-equipped band of insurgents, the Taliban are increasingly attacking security forces across Afghanistan using night-vision goggles and lasers that United States military officials said [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan war takes about five dozen lives a day. Sometimes, the bodies have just one bullet hole. Other times, after intense explosions, there is no body [...]

Byline: MUJIB MASHAL and JAWAD SUKHANYAR KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan war takes about five dozen lives a day. Sometimes, the bodies have just one bullet hole. Other times, after [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban drove an ambulance packed with explosives into a crowded Kabul street on Saturday, setting off an enormous blast that killed at least 95 people and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The State Department said on Tuesday that United States citizens were among the victims of the Taliban attack on a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, over the weekend, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A day after a bloody Taliban siege in Kabul, the Afghan Interior Ministry on Monday raised the civilian death toll to 22 after the discovery of two [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Senior Afghan officials said on Sunday that meetings were underway in Turkey between their government and representatives of the Taliban, although the insurgents denied that any talks [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents using sophisticated night-vision goggles killed eight Afghan police officers in their beds early Monday near the capital of western Farah Province, Afghan officials said. The [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked one of Afghanistan's leading television stations on Tuesday morning, killing two people, Afghan officials said. The attack happened during business hours, but [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Just like any other day, Zareen Gul, 60, held the hand of her grandson, Ali Seyar Nazari, 10, and left home to attend the early evening prayer [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Mumtaz's new baby still has no name. Mumtaz is a 23-year-old woman from the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, the victim of an acid attack when she [...]

Byline: ROD NORDLAND and JAWAD SUKHANYAR KABUL, Afghanistan -- Mumtaz's new baby still has no name. Mumtaz is a 23-year-old woman from the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, the victim [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- When the Afghan female robotics team, made up of teenage students from the western city of Herat, finally made it to a global competition in the United [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Attackers entered the grounds of the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, after a suicide bomber blew himself up at an entrance gate shortly before noon [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In the latest sign of intensifying Taliban violence across Afghanistan, insurgents overran two districts in the north and the west of the country on Sunday, in one [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two Taliban groups that recently switched allegiance to the Islamic State have overrun an embattled district in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 10 government fighters and a [...]

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- It used to be one of the most coveted jobs in Afghanistan: a position on a sprawling American military base, the biggest in the country. Pay was [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- It was a particularly bitter fight in the heavily contested district of Gereshk in Helmand Province. The adversaries deployed suicide attackers, roadside explosives and a magnetic bomb [...]

Byline: TAIMOOR SHAH, ROD NORDLAND and JAWAD SUKHANYAR KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- It was a particularly bitter fight in the heavily contested district of Gereshk in Helmand Province. The adversaries deployed [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three explosions on Saturday rocked the funeral service of a victim of antigovernment protests in Kabul, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens after a tense [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A protest on Friday that began at the site of a huge bombing in Kabul earlier this week and made its way to the gates of the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A truck bomb devastated a central area of Kabul near the presidential palace and foreign embassies on Wednesday, one of the deadliest strikes in the long Afghan [...]

TOGH-BAIRDI, Afghanistan -- A lone grave, its dirt mound shaded under the drooping branches of a mulberry tree and kept adorned with flowers, has become a daily stop for seminary [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A large Taliban explosion targeting an elite Afghan militia force that has worked closely with the C.I.A. killed at least a dozen people on Saturday in the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A feud that began when one police commander in western Afghanistan was accused of killing the civilian son of another has set off days of clashes, leaving [...]

Byline: JAWAD SUKHANYAR and FAHIM ABED KABUL, Afghanistan -- A feud that began when one police commander in western Afghanistan was accused of killing the civilian son of another has [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Heavy gunfire echoed down Darulaman Road, in the vicinity of Parliament and President Ashraf Ghani's private home, for more than an hour very early Friday morning. Police [...]

Byline: ROD NORDLAND and JAWAD SUKHANYAR KABUL, Afghanistan -- Heavy gunfire echoed down Darulaman Road, in the vicinity of Parliament and President Ashraf Ghani's private home, for more than an [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials sharply increased the tally of dead in an attack last week on a military hospital, saying Wednesday that at least 50 people, including patients and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan ambassador to Russia is known for his undiplomatic talk and his signature aviator glasses. He has insulted a close ally of his host country. His [...]

Byline: MUJIB MASHAL and JAWAD SUKHANYAR KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan ambassador to Russia is known for his undiplomatic talk and his signature aviator glasses. He has insulted a close [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan soldiers and policemen surrounded the house of Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum on Tuesday in an apparent effort to arrest nine of his aides accused of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Contending that her ''life isn't at risk at all,'' military officials in Afghanistan have asked that the United States reject the asylum case of Capt. Niloofar Rahmani, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The office of Afghanistan's attorney general said on Saturday that it had opened an investigation into allegations that the country's vice president had tortured and sexually abused [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State affiliates in Afghanistan targeted the vehicle of an elite Afghan bodyguard force in Kabul on Wednesday, leaving at least six [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen who claim to be followers of the Islamic State killed 23 civilian hostages in a remote province in western Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. The killings [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An effort to fight corruption by monitoring the financial assets of top Afghan officials, underwritten by the United States, has been a near-total failure, according to American [...]