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Afghanistan: Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor is dead
The leader of the Taliban has been killed in a U.S. airstrike, Afghanistan’s government confirmed Sunday.
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US Special Operations Forces attacked in Afghanistan near Marjah, officials say
The forces were involved in a counter-terrorism operation in Helmand province when they came under attack.
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Afghanistan attack: 6 NATO troops killed near Bagram airbase
Six American service members were killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan on Monday, U.S. officials told NBC News.
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ISIS takes to airwaves, transmits fatwas in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
ISIS is transmitting hours of extremist propaganda into homes deep in one of Afghanistan’s biggest cities for the first time.
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U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, warns Americans of ‘imminent attack’
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul urged Americans “to exercise extreme caution if moving around the city … during this period of heightened threat.”
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US gunship shot victims fleeing Kunduz hospital, Doctors Without Borders says
A charity that ran the facility says a U.S. warplane shot people trying to flee a burning hospital destroyed in airstrikes last month.
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Scores killed as earthquake shakes Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
A magnitude-7.5 earthquake hit Afghanistan on Monday, killing more than 150 people there and in neighboring Pakistan and flattening at least 1,400 buildings.
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Doctors Without Borders denies Taliban were firing from Afghan hospital hit by airstrike
A medical aid group on Sunday struck back at allegations that Taliban fighters were operating in an Afghan hospital that was bombarded by U.S. forces.
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Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz hit by apparent US strike
Nine Doctors Without Borders staff were killed and dozens of others missing after an apparent U.S. airstrike hit the charity’s hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
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12 dead after US C-130 transport plane crashes in Afghanistan: Officials
Twelve people, including five U.S. service members, were killed early Friday when a U.S. C-130 transport plane crashed while taking off in Afghanistan.