Voting has begun in Afghanistan’s presidential election, marking the first democratic transfer of power since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
The powerful Afghan vice-president Marshal MQ Fahim has died of natural causes, weeks before the country goes to the polls.
Afghanistan says it will follow through with its plan to release 88 prisoners the US considers dangerous – further souring relations between the two.
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/ 1 February 2012
The US says the Taliban are set to retake control of Afghanistan when Nato withdraws, raising fears of a failure of Western policy after a costly war.
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/ 26 December 2011
Afghanistan will accept a Taliban office in Qatar to help peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent.
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/ 29 October 2011
A car bomber killed 13 American troops in Kabul on Saturday, the deadliest single ground attack against the Nato-led force in 10 years of war.
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/ 15 October 2011
The Afghan parliament has agreed to start repaying the central bank for its bailout of Kabulbank with a first instalment of $51-million.
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/ 21 September 2011
Afghans gathered to mourn assassinated former president and chief peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani on Wednesday.
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/ 21 September 2011
A Taliban suicide bomber on Tuesday killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government’s peace council.
Gunmen killed an adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a gunbattle in Kabul on Sunday, officials said.