Most of the health facilities in Afghanistan's isolated Uruzgan Province have closed due to threats from the Taliban, local officials said.
Afghan security officials say at least three civilians were wounded on September 24 when a suicide car bomber attacked a Danish military convoy from the NATO-led international mission in Kabul.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have killed a district police chief in the southern province of Helmand.
Pakistan's new prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, in his first address before the UN General Assembly, rejected the new U.S. war strategy in neighboring Afghanistan while praising China's growing economic role in the region.
In a meeting with Afghanistan's leader, U.S. President Donald Trump has praised the combat efforts to drive the Taliban and terror groups out of Afghanistan.
The new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, by working more closely with Kabul and taking a harder line toward Pakistan, stands a better chance of working than previous plans, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on September 20.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani welcomed what he called a new "resolve" from the United States to support his country, in an address to the UN General Assembly. Speaking on September 19, he also called on Pakistan to engage "earnestly" in confronting terrorism and extremism. (Reuters)
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said he welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump's renewed resolve to win the war against the Taliban and called his country "the front lines" in the global war against terrorism in a speech before the United Nations.
The Afghan Air Force (AAF) has received its first U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters as part of a planned replacement of its aging fleet of Russian-made helicopters.
Most of the 3,000 additional troops the United States is deploying to Afghanistan are on their way, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on September 18.
At least four civilians have been killed and 14 others wounded in an explosion in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, local officials say.
Officials in Pakistan have reopened the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan, one day after a grenade attack injured more than a dozen people.
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