The commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan has said he needs a "few thousands" more troops to break a stalemate in the war with the Taliban.
The Afghan Taliban released a video on Wednesday showing an Australian and an American hostage pleading with the U.S. government to negotiate with their captors and saying that unless a prisoner exchange was agreed they would be killed.
Dozens of people have been killed in a series of militant attacks on Tuesday throughout Afghanistan.
The Afghan government like yesteryear has been faced with multiple challenges in 2016 above all the increasing security incidents and futile efforts to find negotiated settlement to the country's lingering crisis.
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a woman who divorced her husband and remarried, officials say.
Two Afghan army personnel were killed and one soldier wounded in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Kunar province on Tuesday, police said.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Sunday that the Taliban insurgency would not survive a month if it lost its sanctuary in neighbouring Pakistan, urging its neighbour to take on militant groups on its soil instead of giving Kabul financial aid.
Departure of most foreign combat troops and infighting between rival groups has weakened perceived legitimacy of war
With an AK-47 assault rifle slung casually over his shoulder, Allah Mohammad, while slashing an opium bulb with a vicious looking knife and extracting its milky nectar that seeps from the cuts, said that he thanks the chaos and ongoing militancy in Afghanistan as it allows him to grow poppies on his farm in the Ghorak district of the southern Kandahar province.
Hundreds of people have taken up arms against Taliban outfit in the northern Jawzjan province after the armed group has intensified activities in the neighboring Saripul and Faryab provinces.
A hospital official said more than 80 people were hurt in the attack, which happened around 23:00 (18:30 GMT).
Fifteen years have passed since the costly U.S.-led war on terror in Afghanistan and the ousting of the hardliner Taliban regime, but insurgency and conflicts are continuing to have a devastating impact on ordinary Afghan lives.
Militancy and subversive activities have been constantly rising in Afghanistan since mid-April this year and the anti-government militants in their latest strikes conducted three deadly offensives in a single day on Monday in the fortified capital city of Kabul leaving Afghans in shock.
Militants attacked an international charity in Kabul Tuesday during an hours-long assault labelled a war crime by Amnesty, as the capital reeled from a wave of violence that has killed at least 24 and wounded dozens.
The Afghan security forces regained on Saturday the control of Khan Abad district, Kunduz province, seized by the Taliban militants earlier, police said.
Scores were feared killed and injured after a powerful truck bombing and ensuing gunfire rocked a foreign guesthouse in eastern Kabul in the early hours on Monday, sources and witnesses said.
The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday they were launching new operations after the end of the holy month of Ramadan, dismissing reports that they had been weakened following a change of leadership in May.
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