Afghanistan's president says he will not free thousands of Taliban prisoners ahead of all-Afghan power-sharing talks set for next week, publicly disagreeing with a timetable laid out just a day earlier in a U.S.-Taliban peace deal.
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Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani appears to have won a narrow re-election victory in September's balloting.
Military
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has condemned Friday's attack in a mosque inside an army base in eastern Afghanistan that killed 27 soldiers.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan.
President Obama has apologized to Doctors Without Borders for the U.S. air attack that hit the group's medical clinic in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. will keep just under 10,000 troops in Afghanistan through the end of 2015 at the request of Afghanistan's new president, Ashraf Ghani.