Amid fighting in Afghanistan, reports said at least 1,000 Afghan troops have fled to Tajikistan after facing defeat against the Taliban even as US troops continue to their pullout.

Hundreds of Afghan troops flee to Tajikistan as Taliban advances

Fierce fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban killed dozens in a restive eastern province, officials said Thursday, as negotiators from both sides pushed ahead with peace talks in Qatar.

Afghanistan: Over 50 people die in clashes with Taliban as Doha peace talks continue

Four civilians were killed and eight others were injured in the Zabul province. The victims were travelling by bus when a roadside bomb exploded. Two children were among the dead.

Afghanistan witnesses spike in bloody attacks, who's to be blamed?

The Taliban killed at least 20 Afghan soldiers and policemen in a string of overnight attacks, government officials told AFP Wednesday, hours after US President Donald Trump said he had a "very good" chat with the insurgents' political chief.

Hours after Trump call, Taliban attacks kill 20 in Afghanistan: Officials

Two American soldiers were killed and two others injured in a roadside bomb attack on a US Army vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the NATO mission there said.

Two US soldiers killed in Afghanistan bomb attack, says NATO mission

A Taliban roadside bomb ripped through a US army vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, with no immediate details of casualties. The incident took place in Dand district of southern Kandahar province, where a bomb hit a US armoured vehicle, provincial police spokesman Jamal Nasir Barkzai told reporters.

Afghanistan: Blast hits US army vehicle in Dand, Taliban claims responsibility

Talibans attack military base in Afghanistan; 100 killed

The Taliban's campaign of violence and intimidation during last month's parliamentary elections in Afghanistan was the deadliest for civilians in years, a report by the United Nations mission in the country has said.

Taliban-led violence during recent Afghan polls leaves record high numbers of civilians dead: UN

The attack took place in Afghanistan's Herat province on Saturday night, police said

Afghanistan: 10 policemen killed in Taliban attack near India-built Salma dam