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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.
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.
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.
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.
The Afghan parliament has agreed to start repaying the central bank for its bailout of Kabulbank with a first instalment of $51-million.
Afghans gathered to mourn assassinated former president and chief peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani on Wednesday.
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.
At least 10 civilians were killed when suicide bombers and Taliban insurgents attacked a hotel frequented by Westerners in the Afghan capital.
A string of attacks hit Afghanistan’s parliamentary election on Saturday, after the Taliban vowed to disrupt the poll.
Police fired into the air to disperse thousands of anti-American protesters in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday.
Taliban gunmen launched a brazen assault on the centre of Kabul on Monday, with suicide bombers blowing themselves up at several locations.
Taliban gunmen, some wearing suicide vests, launched a commando-style assault on government buildings in the centre of Kabul on Monday.
