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Kabul: Explosions have rocked central Kabul for several hours after Taliban gunmen launched a major suicide and gun attack centered on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). One police officer was killed and five militants were shot ...

KABUL: Iranian guards shot dead 10 Afghan migrants illegally trying to cross the border from the western province of Herat, officials in Kabul said on Sunday. Thousands of Afghans cross illegally into Iran every year to seek work as Afghanistan's ...

Afghanistan summons its Iranian ambassador in protest over Iranian border guards shooting 10 Afghans as they tried to illegally cross the border into Iran on Friday Afghanistan on Sunday summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest against Iranian ...

Afghan protesters burn a Pakistani flag during a demonstration following cross-border clashes in Asadabad, capital of Kunar province, bordering Pakistan on May 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO KABUL, May 7, 2013 (AFP) - The Afghan government on Monday summoned a ...

GHALANAI, May 6: Afghan forces attacked a border checkpost in Mohmand Agency on Monday, injuring four Pakistani soldiers. Security sources said the Gursal checkpost was attacked at around 9am with rockets, mortars and other heavy weapons. Pakistani ...

KABUL: Afghanistan says it has lodged an official protest with Pakistan after its forces allegedly came under fire along a contested stretch of their border. The Foreign Ministry says the incident along the eastern frontier took place early on ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Border tension between Afghanistan and Pakistan flared up again with Kabul on Monday warning Islamabad of more clashes after frontier guards exchanged mortar and artillery rounds on a disputed boundary stretch. This was the ...

Pakistan's hopes for peace for its historic election this weekend diminish by the day, with yet another bomb blast at a political rally, and a resumption of fighting with neighbouring Afghanistan. A gun-battle between soldiers broke out on the ...

PULI ALAM: A Taliban bomb killed eight Afghan policemen on Thursday in Logar province outside the capital Kabul, officials said, four days after the insurgents started their annual spring offensive. The members of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) force ...