Representatives from US and Qatar, the UN, China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, the UK, the EU, Germany, India, Norway, Tajikistan, Turkey and Turkmenistan joined a regional conclave on Thursday to discuss ways to contain the escalating security situation in Afghanistan.
Yet another two provincial capitals in southern Afghanistan are captured by the Taliban on Friday.
With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is evacuating some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, and U.S. troops with be assisting at the Kabul airport.
In Kunduz city, capital of northern Kunduz province, 10 civilians were killed and 42 others wounded following early Saturday's clashes, hsanullah Fazli, director of Kunduz Public Health Directorate, told Xinhua news agency.
At least nine people were killed and 10 others were wounded in an attack by armed men on worshippers at a mosque in Parwan on Tuesday.
An insider attack claimed the lives of 23 security personnel in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Saturday, an official said.
Two policemen were killed and three others injured in a bomb attack in Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, authorities confirmed.
In western Farah province, police chief Abdul Maruf Fulad said that the Taliban attacked a government compound in Shibkho district, killing three policemen.
Kabul: At least 203 people, most of them civilians, were killed and hundreds wounded in bombings and attacks across Afghanistan last month, according to official figures.A total of 50 major bombings, including 20 suicide attacks,
Kabul, Apr 19: The US ambassador to Afghanistan said today that there is “no question” that the Haqqani network was behind this week's brazen attacks on Kabul and other eastern cities and said Pakistan needs
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