Afghanistan on Wednesday executed six "criminals and terrorists", an official said, a day after eight other death row prisoners were hanged in rare mass executions in the war-wracked country.

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Pakistan has released 14 Afghan Taliban cadres, including commander Anwar Haq Mujahid, and may consider a request by Afghan peace negotiators to free Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar to kick-start the Afgha

India was for a ‘stable, strong and prosperous’ Afghanistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday, adding that the two countries had decided to intensify cooperation, especially in the sectors

At least 15 Afghan civilians were killed and 18 wounded Friday while going to a wedding party when their vehicle was blown up in a roadside bombing in northern Balkh province, police said.

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A firefight between NATO troops and their Afghan allies killed five people in circumstances that remained murky Sunday against a background of increasing 'insider' attacks on coalition troops.

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The visiting Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has sought a reliable and achievable plan from the US on Afghanistan and pushed for a free trade agreement between the two countries.

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The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge has left the country, US defense officials said Thursday.

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A British soldier serving on the frontline in Afghanistan has given birth at the NATO base where she is posted - days after it came under attack from the Taliban, the defence ministry said.

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A suicide car bomber on Tuesday killed 12 people, nine of them foreigners, officials said, in an early-morning attack claimed by a militant group which said it struck to avenge an anti-Islam film.

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A 16-year-old Afghan girl has been flogged for allegedly having an affair and her purported boyfriend fined USD 1,600 in a rural district under government control, local officials said on Saturday.