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At least 11 killed in bus bombing in Quetta, provincial capital of restive Balochistan.

An employee of German aid agency, the woman was abducted in Kabul two months ago.

US military presence in Afghanistan will be extended into 2017 with 5,500 troops remaining in the country.

The crash was 'an accident and not the result of insurgent activity', said an MoD spokesman.

BREAKING: Afghan Taliban claims responsibility for bombing in Joy Shir area.

The identities, including gender, as well as the cause of the deaths were not immediately known.

US Gen John F Campbell retracts previous statements on airstrike that killed 23.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says troops pushing ahead in strategic city near Pakistan border.

Taliban claims seizing Yangi Qala district in northern Takhar province.

Al-Qaeda's calls on 'all Muslims' to carry out solo attacks against the US and the West.

Girls in hospital after attacks by suspected Islamists for attending school.

A Kabul car bomb killed 12 people, including three Nato contractors.

The Taliban attack led to the deaths of 125 schoolchildren in December 2014.

Ghani says Pakistan has not done enough to curb Islamist insurgency.

BREAKING: Officials say both casualties and fatalities feared.

The Afghan capital has been hit by a series of explosions.

Blast is first major attack in the city since Mullah Omar's death was announced.

Mullah Akhtar Mansour has appealed for unity among jihadist group's factions in 30-minute audio recording.

Mullah Akhtar Mansour appears to have been named successor to Mullah Mohammed Omar who was pronounced dead.

Mullah Akhtar Mansour had been Omar's long-term deputy.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar's alliance with Bin Laden lost him Afghanistan and may have cost him his life.

Targeted outpost was flying Afghan flag when the American helicopters opened fire, local official says.

Ahmad, who was extradited to the US after 10 years in UK prisons, thanks God for his freedom.

The explosion occurred at a military roadblock near Camp Chapman's entrance in Khost.

Hafiz Saeed, key Isis commander in Afghanistan, among 30 militants killed in US airstrike.

Influential jihadist was sacked by Pakistani Taliban (TTP) for pledging allegiance to Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Envoy admits security forces are at limit but says they are resilient as insurgents attempt to take territory.

Afghan Taliban has warned Isis fighters not to attempt running a parallel insurgency in the war-torn country.

BREAKING: Gunfire between Islamist insurgents and security forces lasts for several hours.

Janson Yu and Liyan Hu projected holographic statues to revive the ancient Buddhas destroyed in 2001.