One soldier of the NATO-led coalition was killed early Tuesday morning in an armed attack in restive eastern Afghanistan, the coalition forces confirmed.
Pakistan on Wednesday rejected remarks by Afghan army chief that Pakistan controlled and gave shelter to Afghan Taliban leaders, and deliberately unleashed fighters on Afghanistan.
Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Tuesday the visiting US special envoy his government's full commitment to an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process, the PM office said.
Pakistan on Tuesday angrily reacted to recent remarks by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who had alleged that Pakistani security agencies are destabilizing Afghanistan.
U.S. President Barack Obama and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will discuss a range of security issues on Friday at the White House, with the Afghan war on their top agenda, the White House said on Tuesday.
Three NATO soldiers died as a car bombing rocked southern Afghanistan on Monday, the military alliance confirmed in a statement.
An aid agreement was signed between Afghanistan and Finland on Monday, in an effort to provide continuous help for the war-torn Asian country after the withdrawal of international peacekeeping forces.
Confucius Institute of Kabul University re-opened Sunday after a halt of one year and a half since October 2010, marking the enhanced Sino-Afghan cultural exchanges.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution to renew the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for another year.
Although the situation of women in the post-Taliban Afghanistan has been improving, it still has a long way to go in gender equality and empowering women in society, according to Public Health Minister Suraya Dalil. "The Afghan women situation is improving over the last decade. The reduction in maternal mortality rate in a society is a sign of the advancement of a society and Afghanistan has already made significant improvement in reducing birth-related deaths among mothers,"Dalil told Xinhua in an interview.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai kicked off a three-day official visit to the U.S. on Monday for extensive talks with President Barack Obama and other American leaders on the future of bilateral relations.
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