The Qatar-based political office of Afghanistan’s Taliban has rejected media reports that a Taliban delegation sent to Pakistan is exploring the possibility of joining peace talks with the Afghan government.
Protesters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, demanded that suspect war criminals in the country face justice. They called for the abolition of an amnesty law that prevents the prosecution of alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan in recent decades. (RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan)
More than 100 Georgian troops returned home from Afghanistan. They were commended for saving several U.S. airmen during their seven-month tour of duty.
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has called on Pakistan to battle the Taliban rather than try to bring them into peace talks.
Blocked from Europe, and unwilling to return home, Afghan migrants in Turkey say life is passing them by.
The death toll from the April 19 Taliban attack in the Afghan capital has risen to 64 -- more than double the total previously estimated by officials.
The horrific killing of a 6-year-old Afghan migrant girl outside Tehran has sparked unprecedented condemnation in Iran.
Taliban militants used a massive suicide truck bomb to attack an office belonging to Afghanistan's main security agency in Kabul. Afghan officials said at least 28 people were killed and about 300 wounded. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
Centuries after William Shakespeare wrote them, his plays are performed in a multitude of languages. To mark 400 years since Shakespeare's death on April 23, 1616, actors from the Balkans to Central Asia performed Hamlet's famous soliloquy for RFE/RL.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a brazen assault on Afghanistan's main security agency in the capital, Kabul. Afghan officials said at least 20 people were killed and more than 300 wounded. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have attacked an office of the country's main security agency in Kabul, killing at least 28 people and wounding about 300. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told RFE/RL that the April 19 attack began with a suicide car bomb during the morning rush hour, followed by an assault by armed militants. The attack -- near the Defense Ministry in the capital's central first district -- targeted an office that houses a National Directorate of Security unit responsible for protecting government officials. Mohammad Ismail Kawusi, the Health Ministry's public-relations director, told RFE/RL that at least 20 people were killed in the attack and 198 people were taken by ambulance to various hospitals. Numerous others were wounded, he said. Casualties included both civilians and members of Afghan security forces.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on the Afghan capital, Kabul, on April 19. A spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, Sediq Sediqqi, said a suicide attacker detonated a vehicle. (AP Video)
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