Russia says the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will discuss a "very tense situation" in Afghanistan when the grouping holds its summit in Uzbekistan this week.
Several hundred Afghans demonstrated against Pakistan in Kabul, after deadly border clashes last week escalated tensions between the two countries.
Afghan officials said on June 22 that the Taliban has freed 23 men who were kidnapped a day earlier by militants in southern Afghanistan.
Afghan officials say a roadside bombing in an eastern provincial capital killed a police officer and a civilian on June 22.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have kidnapped about two dozen men after pulling them off a bus and trucks in the southern province of Helmand.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's anti-Muslim policies could backfire and hurt the United States.
Afghanistan’s parliament has approved President Ashraf Ghani’s nominees for defense minister and intelligence director -- two crucial posts that have been vacant for months while the country tries to battle rising militancy.
Pakistani and Afghan diplomats met in Islamabad on June 20 to discuss deadly border clashes but failed to reach an agreement about managing their border.
A group of Nepalese security guards working for the Canadian embassy in Kabul have been killed in a suicide attack on their minibus. Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said 14 guards were killed, and eight others were wounded in the early morning attack on June 20. (RFE/RL's Afghan Service)
At least 14 foreign security guards have been killed when a Taliban suicide bomber targeted their minibus in the Afghan capital Kabul.
To get a better idea of what the situation is in northern Afghanistan and how this might be viewed from Central Asia, RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service, known locally as Azatlyk, gathered a majlis, or panel, to discuss current events along the Afghan-Central Asian border.
The UN's refugee chief has said displaced Afghans had already been "forgotten" by the international community before they began arriving in Europe in large numbers last year.
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