Afghans at a market in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan, shouted slogans against the Pakistan authorities over the detention of some 2,000 Afghans in recent days. Pakistan has set June 30 as the last day that many Afghan refugees will be able to remain in the country legally. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
Afghan officials have reported heavy fighting between Islamic State militants and government security forces in the east of the country.
Dozens of suspected Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed in fighting in eastern Afghanistan.
The U.S. military has carried out its first air strikes against Taliban targets in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama authorized limited offensive operations against the insurgency earlier this month.
Presidents of member states and countries with the status of observers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) were in Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent, on June 23 for the start of a two-day summit.
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.
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