The Taliban has captured a district in southeastern Afghanistan, along the porous border with Pakistan.
Here are the accounts of four survivors of the 10-hour assault by gunmen on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. At least 13 people were killed in the attack. Survivors describe barricading themselves behind classroom doors, clinging to the floor as shots rang out meters away, and suffering injuries as they and others scrambled to reach safety.
Afghan police hunted for evidence a day after an attack on American University of Afghanistan in Kabul left at least 13 people dead. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
Emergency workers evacuated the injured after the American University of Afghanistan campus was hit by an armed assault on August 24. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
The death of a 12-year-old Afghan girl in Iran has prompted that country's health minister to publicly defend a national ban on organ transplants for foreigners that some were initially blaming for the tragedy.
At least 13 people, including seven students, were killed during a 10-hour assault by gunmen on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.
Police in Italy say a migrant from Afghanistan travelled 400 kilometers along a highway strapped to the bottom of a truck.
The NATO-led mission in Afghanistan says a U.S. soldier was killed during an anti-Taliban operation near Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern province of Helmand.
Around 100 U.S. troops in Afghanistan have been deployed to a southern city at risk of falling to the Taliban.
A major crossing on the Afghan-Pakistan border has been closed over a dispute over the burning of a Pakistani flag by Afghan demonstrators last week.
Afghan forces have retaken a district in the northeastern Kunduz Province that had been seized earlier by Taliban forces.
Independence Day fans discord over a controversial monarch who overthrew one of Afghanistan's heroes of independence.
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