The first unconditional ceasefire offer by the Afghan president follows a recommendation by Islamic clerics.

A group of Afghanistan's girl coders is designing games, apps and websites.

At least 11 soldiers were killed and 16 others wounded after five militants, affiliated to Islamic State, struck an army outpost near one of Afghanistan’s main military academies in Kabul on Monday.

At least two people have been killed and 11 others injured after four armed men detonated explosives and stormed into the office of Save the Children aid agency in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday.

The strike near the Afghan Voice news agency and a Shia cultural center killed 40 people on Thursday as a group of students had gathered for a discussion on the 38^th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

A powerful car bomb struck near the German embassy in Zanbaq Square in the center of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, killing at least 80 and injuring more than 350 people during the rush hour on Wednesday.

Mobilization of Taliban, combat casualties, poor logistics support & leadership issues weaken security forces.

Jihadist outfit Islamic State launched a suicide attack on a NATO convoy mission in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing eight civilians and injuring 25 others, including three U.S. service members on Wednesday.

According to the Afghan defense ministry, 36 Islamic State militants were killed after the U.S. struck a 300m-long network of caves and tunnels in Nangarhar province with its biggest, non-nuclear bomb on Thursday.

Worshippers had gathered to observe religious day of Ashura on Tuesday.