Hamid Karzai

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) will continue to support Afghanistan as part of NATO's mandate in the country, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar stated on Aug. 23.

As many as three Afghan civilians were killed early on June 12 when American troops opened fire after their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, an official in eastern Nangarhar province said.

A man and his two sons were killed at their home in Ghani Khel, a district in the south of Nangarhar, on the border with Pakistan, said Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor.

Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and NATO forces  before a suspected U.S. air strike killed at least 19 people in a battle to oust the Islamist insurgents from an Afghan city. 

Afghan negotiators said July 9 their next round of talks with the Taliban would focus in detail on ways to end bloodshed in the country, wracked by nearly 40 years of war.

At least three people have been killed in Afghanistan when a suicide bomber detonated a car near Kabul main airport on Sunday morning. As many as 21 other people were wounded.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. 

The campaign team of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah on Sunday released audio recordings which they said contained evidence of fraud against a senior member of the country's Independent Election Commission (IEC).
      

Eleven people, including election workers, were killed in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb blew up their bus, the governor of the northern province of Samangan said on June 15.

Afghans headed back to the polls on Saturday for a second round of voting to elect a successor to President Hamid Karzai in a decisive test of Afghanistan's ambitions to transfer power democratically for the first time in its tumultuous history. 

Afghans headed to the polls on Saturday morning to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in a second round of presidential elections. 

The run-off election is the second voting day in less than three months after no candidate won more than 50% in the April poll.

Taliban insurgents threatened Monday to attack Afghanistan's run-off presidential election, warning voters to stay away from polling stations for fear of injury or death.
      
Afghans are due to go to the polls on June 14 to choose whether Ashraf Ghani or Abdullah Abdullah should succeed President Hamid Karzai.