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  Uncertainty looms ahead of US-Taliban deal signing

  Agence-France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 11:30pm on February 27, 2020

  Washington and the Taliban are set to sign a deal Saturday to secure America’s exit from its longest war through gradually withdrawing troops and starting...

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  5 dead in suicide attack on Afghan military academy

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 02:27pm on February 11, 2020

  A suicide attack targeting a military academy in the Afghan capital killed at least five people early Tuesday, the first major assault in the city...

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  Four of same family murdered by armed men in Kabul

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha / Xinhua. Kabul | Updated at 02:05pm on January 20, 2020

  A group of unknown armed men entered a house in the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday and killed four members of a family, including three...

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  One killed, five hurt in grenade attack on UN vehicle in Kabul

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 01:54pm on November 25, 2019

  A foreign national was killed and at least five other people were wounded in a grenade attack on a United Nations vehicle in Kabul on...

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  12 killed in Kabul car bomb blast

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 01:25pm on November 13, 2019

  At least 12 people, including three children, were killed when a minivan packed with explosives rammed into a vehicle carrying foreigners during Kabul’s morning rush...

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  Greater Middle East project of chaos

  Roger D Harris | Updated at 12:00am on October 21, 2019

  DESTINATION Afghanistan was known as the big easy back in the halcyon days of the late 1960s. Hippies from throughout the affluent West hitchhiked to...

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  Afghans vote in presidential election amid deadly violence

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 01:51pm on September 28, 2019

  Afghans voted in presidential elections amid tight security Saturday, even as insurgents attacked polling centres in a series of blasts and clashes across the country...

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  Kabul blast toll rises as US tries to finalise Taliban deal

  Agence-France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 01:36pm on September 03, 2019

  A massive blast in a residential part of Kabul killed at least 16 people, officials said Tuesday, following yet another Taliban attack that came as...

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  Islamic State bomber kills 63 at Kabul wedding

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 10:53am on August 18, 2019

  Joy and celebration turned into horror and carnage when an Islamic State suicide bomber targeted a packed Afghan wedding hall, killing at least 63 people...

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  Kabul blast toll reaches 14 killed, 145 wounded

  Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 12:42pm on August 07, 2019

  A suicide attacker detonated a car-bomb outside a police station in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday wounding at least 95 people, government officials said,...