By an explosion, at least twenty people were killed on Saturday during a festive gathering of unarmed Taliban fighters and Afghan security officials in the eastern province of Nangarhar. This has been confirmed by the governor's spokesman.
Dozens of unarmed Taliban fighters entered the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday to celebrate the cease-fire and the end of Ramadan. According to the police, soldiers and militants embrace each other and make selfies together.
Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah was killed by an air strike in Afghanistan. The Afghan Ministry of Defense said that the terrorist leader was eliminated during a joint operation with the US forces.
A Hungarian court imposed 25 years in prison on four members of a gang of people smugglers who had 71 migrants suffocated in a truck. They left the truck with the bodies next to a motorway in Austria.
The Taliban have declared a three-day cease-fire on Saturday in Afghanistan next weekend. Then it is the Feast of Sugar on which the end of the fasting month of Ramadan is celebrated.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani ordered the military to stop taking action against the extremist Taliban until 20 June. Ghani said that the fight against Islamic State and other extremist groups will continue.
At least seven people were killed by a bomb attack at a meeting of Afghan clergy. They had just announced a fatwa against suicide attacks. The attack also injured at least nine people, reports the police.
Almost four million children between the ages of seven and seventeen do not go to school in Afghanistan. About 2.2 million of them are girls, reports the UN children's organization UNICEF in a report that was presented in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday.
Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan appears to earn a nice amount from the export of illegally extracted talcum powder. The fighters send loads of indirectly to the US and Europe and earn tons of money, the organization concludes Global Witness.
At least nine people were killed by attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul. At least seventeen people were also injured, the authorities say.
By an air raid on a religious ceremony, at least 36 deaths in the Afghan province of Kunduz last month. Most victims are children, reports UNAM UNAMA. According to the Afghan government, the attack was directed, among other things, against high-ranking Taliban leaders.
At least seven people were killed by two attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul, twenty others were injured. In the eastern province of Nangarhar an attack was committed on police officers.
At least seven people were killed Sunday by a suicide attack in the Afghan capital Kabul. Approximately 35 people were injured. The Ministry of Health said that the perpetrator struck a center where proof of identity was issued.
The Taliban killed the governor of a district in the Afghan province of Ghazni. A part of the governor's building in Khwaja Omari went up in flames, the Afghan news channel TOLO reports.
At least ten people were killed by an attack at a stadium in the Afghan province of Helmand. Meanwhile, even unconfirmed numbers of twenty or even seventy deaths are circulating. The perpetrator exploded a car bomb, says a spokesman for the governor. Dozens of people were injured.
At least 26 people were killed on Wednesday by an attack in the Afghan capital Kabul.
Due to a suicide attack at a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, at least seven people were killed on Friday. On the square in front of the al-Sara mosque, hundreds of people had gathered for a memorial service to an important Shia leader.
A 23-year-old Afghan has announced that he stabbed four people on Wednesday in Vienna. He first randomly put down a father, mother and daughter. Half an hour later he wounded a 20-year-old man whom he knew.
Afghans have reported 1.17 million in three months to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is investigating whether it can open a case for possible war crimes in the country.
A Taliban who had been infiltrated for months by Afghan soldiers has opened fire on his colleagues and killed sixteen soldiers.
The Afghan authorities seized a vehicle full of explosives in the capital Kabul. According to the NDS intelligence service, it is at least two tons of explosives.
A group of migrants fought Thursday afternoon in the French port of Calais. This would also have been shot.
The Pakistani government has determined that refugees from Afghanistan can stay in the country for no more than sixty days, while the responsible minister recommended a five-month period on Wednesday. The decision revives the fear that Islamabad is preparing the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Afghans.
Afghanistan was shaken by an earthquake on Wednesday. The quake had a strength of 6.1 and the epicenter was in the Hindu Kush Mountains, about 270 kilometers and northeast of the Afghan capital Kabul. The shock was also felt in Pakistan.
Kabul is shrouded in deep mourning after Saturday's bloody attack. 103 people were killed by an explosion and another 235 injured. This makes it the heaviest attack in the Afghan capital in nine months.
In the event of a major explosion of a truck that was loaded with explosives, several deaths and approximately eighty injuries were reported to have occurred Saturday in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul. The bomb truck exploded according to local media at a checkpoint of security forces, near a building that was previously the Ministry of the Interior and close to a large hospital.
Six children have been killed in Afghanistan by fire. The facts of the incident are not clear. The authorities point to the Taliban, but others say that the children have been victims of an air strike by the Afghan armed forces.
The governor of the Afghan province of Farah has resigned. Mohammad Arif Shah Jahan announced his departure after protests from residents against the deteriorating security situation in the area, message news channel TOLO.
The death toll after fighting at an office of the international aid organization Save the Children in the Afghan city of Jalalabad has risen to eleven. Among the victims are four employees of the organization, reported via Twitter.
In case of an attack on the office of Save the Children in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, at least eleven people were injured. That reports the BBC. Foreign workers would also work in the building.
