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Afghan peace marchers arrive in Kabul as Taliban end ceasefire

Dozens of peace protesters arrived in Kabul on Monday after walking hundreds of kilometres across war-battered Afghanistan, as the Taliban ended an unprecedented ceasefire and resumed attacks in parts of the country.

Afghan Taliban announce three-day ceasefire

The ceasefire, which is the first since the Taliban was driven from power in 2001, excludes operations against foreign based forces in Afghanistan and comes in the wake of a government ceasefire.

Suicide bomber targets Afghan clerics, killing at least eight

A suicide bomber stuck a gathering of the country's top clerics in Kabul. The clerics had issued an Islamic ruling (fatwa), declaring that suicide attacks are "haram" – forbidden under Islamic law. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack.

Masterpiece silk Quran completed in two years

A foundation set up shop in Kabul 12 years ago to preserve art forms that go back centuries crafts like ceramics, woodworking and calligraphy. More than three dozen artisans completed its latest masterpiece, a silk Quran.

Attack on interior ministry in Kabul over, gunmen killed – police chief

Kabul police chief Daud Amin says seven attackers were killed by security forces between the first and second security perimeter outside the ministry building. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack.

At least nine civilians killed by Afghan security forces

At least nine people were killed and eight more wounded during an apparently botched operation by Afghanistan's special forces in the province of Nangarhar, amid rising civilian deaths.

Afghanistan and the false sense of safety

The campaign to categorise Afghanistan as a "safe country" is misguided and perpetuates the cycle of displacement for Afghans in Europe, Iran and Pakistan.

Dozens dead in fresh attacks in Afghanistan - officials

A blast in Kandahar and attacks by Taliban militants in the eastern Ghazni province have killed dozens of people in the latest wave of violence in Afghanistan, officials say.

At least five killed as suicide bombers target police in Kabul

Taliban and Daesh group claimed responsibility for the attacks on two police stations in the Afghan capital. Officials say a total of eight suicide bombers took part in the attacks in which over a dozen people were wounded as well.

Afghan forces killed 36 at religious ceremony, says UN

Thirty-six people, 30 of whom were children were killed in the attack in which rockets and heavy machine gun fire was used on the madrasa in Kunduz, according to the UN investigation.

Mosque blast kills at least 13 in eastern Afghanistan

Some sources claimed that as many as 21 people had been killed in the blast at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

Deadly attacks in Afghanistan leave 42 dead, including 10 journalists

A twin bomb blast in Kabul was the deadliest attack on journalists since 2001, while another attack in Kandahar killed 11 children.