The fall of Kunduz to Taliban is not only strategically significant but is also cause for deep worry for the Afghan National Unity Government.

Russia's air force hit 60 Islamic State targets in Syria over the past 24 hours and killed around 300 militants, the Defense Ministry says.

President Barack Obama says the US has launched a "full investigation" into air strikes that killed 19 people at an MSF-run Afghan hospital.

Fierce fighting is continuing between Afghan forces and the Taliban in parts of Afghanistan's northern city of Kunduz, despite government claims that it had regained control of the city.

Afghan officials say they have regained control of key areas of the northern city of Kunduz from the Taliban.

Taliban fighters seize a military hilltop site in Kunduz, tightening their grip on the northern Afghan city.

Afghan forces have begun an operation to retake the city of Kunduz, after suffering a major military reverse when it was seized by the Taliban on Monday.

A dispute that threatened to split the Afghan Taliban has been resolved after relatives of late leader Mullah Omar backed his successor, the group says.

Taliban militants have stormed a jail outside the central Afghan city of Ghazni, killing at least four policemen and freeing more than 350 prisoners.

The Afghan Taliban have confirmed covering up their former leader Mullah Omar's death for more than two years.

Taliban ambush on Afghan Vice-President Abdul Rashid Dostum's convoy on a remote highway is successfully beaten back.

Girls' education campaigner and winner of Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai, who now attends Edgbaston High School in Birmingham, gains a string of As and A*s in her GCSEs.

At least 20 people have been killed and 10 wounded in a gunfight at a wedding party in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan

Taliban militants in Afghanistan kill at least 11 Afghan soldiers in an ambush in western Herat province.

Air strikes kill 10 suspected militants in Pakistan's northwestern Shawal Valley, intelligence officials say.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu says BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will be brought to book for “fire-bomb terrorism” and kept in Kashimpur jail.

The Taliban warns the leader of the Islamic State group against waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan, after a string of defections and reported clashes with militants loyal to IS.

Laden was fixated on attacking US targets and pressured al Qaeda groups to heal local rivalries and focus on that cause,according to documents the US says were seized in his hideout in Pakistan.

An Afghan judge sentences 11 police on Tuesday to one year in jail for failing to prevent the mob killing of Farkhunda in Kabul who was accused of burning a copy of the Quran.

A car bomb rams a convoy of foreign troops near the main airport in Kabul on Sunday, killing at least three civilians in the latest attack in the city.