The in-laws of an Afghan child bride have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture and abuse.

Speaking one day after the U.S. envoy to Pakistan stressed the need for Taliban involvement in peace talks, Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government said talks with the Taliban remain "on track" toward a negotiated settlement of the decade-old Afghan war.

An investigation is yet to be completed into the suspected poisoning of 140 schoolgirls and their teachers in Afghanistan. But authorities strongly suspect the incident was the result of a Taliban attack.

Afghan authorities have appealed to citizens to provide information to help solve the case of two dead children whose bodies were found with signs that they had been attacked with acid.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai says progress has been made in negotiations with the United States on the terms of a long-term strategic partnership agreement.

At least 20 people have been reported injured in two explosions in Afghanistan -- one targeting a supply convoy for NATO-led forces, and the second targeting a bank in the northeast.

Information has emerged about the arrests of four Afghan officials for allegedly spying on behalf of neighboring Iran and Pakistan.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is calling on Afghan authorities to fully investigate the murder of radio journalist Samid Khan Bahadarzai and bring those responsible to justice.

Ukrainian veterans of the Afghan-Soviet war, angry about proposed cuts to payouts, snubbed President Viktor Yanukovych on February 15 at a ceremony to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Police in Afghanistan say they are searching for an Afghan man desirous of a son who apparently killed his wife after she gave birth to a third daughter.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has expressed concern over the polio situation in Afghanistan, and called on the Taliban to allow teams conducting a vaccination campaign access to areas under their control.

The leader of Afghanistan's main political opposition bloc says U.S.-led peace talks with the Taliban need to be more inclusive and transparent, just days after a delegation of former Northern Alliance leaders met with U.S. lawmakers.

An Afghan woman, who was jailed for "forced adultery" after a relative raped her before subsequently being pardoned amid an international outcry over the case, says she wants to marry her attacker to avoid "hostility" and so her baby daughter does not grow up "as an ...

Afghan women have long fought for a voice in their country's future. But that struggle has gained urgency as international forces prepare to leave and efforts intensify to reach a political settlement with the Taliban.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has cut short a European trip and returned to Kabul, after a deadly attack targeting a Shi'ite shrine.

Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed five civilians in southern Afghanistan.

Poverty and insecurity is thrusting an increased number Afghan children into street work and begging. But as the number of working street children has risen so too have the cases of child abuse and sexual exploitation around the country.

Local Afghan officials say seven civilians, including six children, have been killed in a NATO air strike in the southern province of Kandahar.

A spokesman for the Afghan president says Afghanistan is sending an official delegation to Pakistan to investigate the killing of Kabul peace envoy and former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani.

Afghan officials say eight civilians were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan today.

It took the threat of military action by the governor of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province to get two tribes to stop their bloody land dispute. But the truce between the two lineages of the Pashtun Shinwari tribe is a shaky one.

Officials say a bomb hidden in a fuel truck has killed at least 10 people in northern Afghanistan.

Five Afghan soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in the western province of Herat.