The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced on August 25 that human rights activists from Russia, Afghanistan, and the Balkans have been named as the finalists for the 2015 Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize.
China sends 300 tractors to Afghanistan to help with crop output.
Officials say 11 people have died after a large fire at a natural gas terminal in the western Afghan city of Herat.
Three DynCorp International employees who were killed by a car bomb in Kabul last weekend all worked on a program to train the Afghan Army and police, the company said.
Afghanistan's intelligence agency says the leader of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group Jundullah has been killed in the country's north.
A car bomb attack in northern Afghanistan has killed one person and wounded two more.
In early August, news broke that Usmon Ghazi, the current leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), had pledged the Central Asian militant group's allegiance to Islamic State. In an attempt to shed some light on the IMU's current situation, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service assembled a panel to discuss this development, Ghazi's leadership of the movement, and what it could mean for the IMU’s future.
A car bomb has exploded outside a private hospital in Kabul, killing 12 people and injuring at least 60.
The United Nations has voiced concern after Macedonian riot police used force to disperse refugees and other migrants trying to enter from Greece.
Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum has survived an ambush by suspected Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan.
Almost 90,000 Afghan refugees have returned from Pakistan to their home country in recent months. Many claim to have been beaten by police, detained, and evicted from their homes in Pakistan, which has set a December 31 deadline for the return of all Afghan refugees still living there. (Photos by Vaiva Katinaityte)
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