A group of 44 Azerbaijani military servicemen returned from Afghanistan to Baku on July 19 in accordance with the rotation plan.

A group of 44 Azerbaijani military personnel was sent to Afghanistan in accordance with the plan and rotation for serving within NATO-led "Resolute Support" mission in Afghanistan.

NATO encourages both Azerbaijan and Armenia to engage in substantial negotiations and to work toward a peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, James Appathurai, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, told APA on June 30.

Azerbaijan will take part in the meeting of defense ministers of the states contributing to the NATO Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan reported on June 28.

At least six police were killed and dozens of people wounded when as many as six gunmen and a suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday morning, officials said.

Dozens of people were killed or wounded when as many as five suicide bombers attacked a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, Reuters reported.

A large delegation of Afghan officials is visiting Tehran today to start a previously arranged series of talks in five strategic fields, Mehr news agency reported June 17.

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, during the hearings on the budget of the Department of Defense in the House of Representatives of the Congress, noted the great role of Azerbaijan in the US operation in Afghanistan.

Azerbaijan`s Minister of Labour and Social Security of Population Salim Muslumov has met his Afghani counterpart Faizullah Zaki as part of the 106th session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

A powerful car bomb exploded in the center of Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday, killing or wounding dozens of people and sending clouds of black smoke into the sky above the presidential palace and foreign embassies, Reuters reported citing officials.