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Bombing attack leaves many casualties in Afghanistan
May 18, 2020 03:30A bombing attack has left at least seven people dead and over 40 others injured in eastern Afghanistan.
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Iran ready to help consolidate unity among Afghan political groups: Zarif
May 17, 2020 11:52Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic welcomes the progress made in national reconciliation process among all political groups in Afghanistan.
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Afghan President Ghani, rival Abdullah strike power-sharing deal after feuding for months
May 17, 2020 10:35Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, a former official and a rival to the incumbent President, have signed a power-sharing deal in a bid to put an end to a months-long feud that plunged the country into political crisis.
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Contrary to US claim, Afghanistan says Taliban carried out Kabul hospital raid
May 16, 2020 00:46Afghan officials have dismissed US assertion that a deadly attack on a maternity hospital in the capital Kabul earlier this week was carried out by the Daesh terrorist group, blaming the Taliban for the carnage.
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Car bomb goes off near Afghan base; Taliban claim responsibility
May 14, 2020 11:31A truck packed with explosives has gone off near a military base in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five civilians in an attack claimed by the Taliban militant group.
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WHO 'appalled' by attack on maternity hospital in Kabul
May 14, 2020 00:20The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says he was "shocked and appalled" by the fatal attack on a maternity hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul, calling for a global ceasefire amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Afghanistan attacks: President orders military to switch to offensive mode
May 13, 2020 05:43Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the country’s military to switch to offensive mode from a defensive one in the wake of the latest bout of bloodshed in the war-ravaged country.
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Iran slams deadly attacks in Afghanistan, calls for dialogue
May 13, 2020 01:01Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has harshly criticized the deadly attacks in Afghanistan that claimed dozens of civilian lives.
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Violent attacks in Afghanistan kill, wound dozens, including at maternity hospital
May 12, 2020 11:28At least 14 people have been killed in an attack in which three militants stormed a maternity hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and set off an hours-long shootout with police, officials say.
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Hospital run by intl. medical NGO attacked in Afghan capital
May 12, 2020 09:09A hospital in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul operated by the Geneva-based Doctors Without Borders has come under attack by gunmen.