Ground staff in Kabul loaded a cargo plane for what officials said would be the first of many flights allowing Afghan and Indian companies to bypass Pakistan and its strict overland transit restrictions. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
A district chief has been shot and killed in Afghanistan's western province of Nimroz by gunmen riding on a motorcycle, an Afghan official says.
Afghan officials say a foreign contractor has been kidnapped in the capital, Kabul.
Two officials from Pakistan's consulate in eastern Afghanistan have gone missing during a road trip, Pakistan said on June 18.
American aid worker Mary MacMakin has been living on and off in Afghanistan for the past 50 years, and she has no intention of leaving anytime soon.
Taliban fighters stormed a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on June 18 after striking it with two suicide car bombs, killing at least five police officers, officials said.
Several thousand protesters marched in the Spanish capital of Madrid to urge the country’s conservative government to fulfill its commitment to take in more than 17,000 refugees as part of a wider European relocation plan.
A member of an elite Afghan commando unit opened fire on U.S.-led coalition troops at an Afghan base in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif, wounding seven U.S. service personnel and at least one Afghan soldier, military officials say.
A U.S. air strike in Afghanistan's eastern Nangahar Province killed the Islamic State (IS) extremist group's director of media, U.S. forces have said.
The owner of a now-defunct mining company in Afghanistan has been indicted on charges of defrauding the U.S. government and defaulting on a loan of nearly $16 million.
Afghanistan's main intelligence agency says it has formally asked Pakistan to hand over three suspects in a deadly bomb attack on a provincial governor's residence in January.
A U.S. administration official has been quoted as saying the Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, hoping to break a stalemate in the 16-year war.
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