US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived on an unannounced visit to Kabul on Friday amid troubled negotiations with Afghanistan on US troops staying in the country after 2014.
Germany has started pulling out its troops from Afghanistan and handed over its command base in the northern province of Kunduz to the Afghan security forces.
Three NATO-run ISAF troops have been shot dead in a so-called afghan “insider attack”.
Pakistan has freed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Afghan Taliban, from jail, says a senior official of the Pakistani Interior Ministry.
Militants in northeast Afghanistan killed 18 police in an ambush, the interior ministry said Friday, as the nation's security forces struggle to thwart the Taliban.
Three people have been killed and six others severely injured in a bomb attack on a convoy of Afghan and foreign forces near Kandahar International Airport in southern Afghanistan.
A car bomb explosion in front of the US consulate in the western Afghan province of Herat has left at least six dead and a second blast happened in the parking lot of the consulate a short time after the original explosion.
Afghans have censured a US court’s decision to sentence an American butcher of 16 civilians in Afghanistan only life in jail.
A US airstrike has killed at least five Afghan policemen during a joint operation against insurgents in the eastern province of Nangarhar, NATO says.
Civilian casualties in the Afghan war has risen by 23 percent in the first half of this year due to Taliban attacks and increased fighting between insurgents and government forces, the UN says.