The Islamic State claimed responsibility for one of the blasts. The explosions hit the Shar-e-Naw district, home to many embassies, and a heavily Shiite district.
At a conference in Kabul , Ashraf Ghani offered the insurgent group a variety of incentives to come to the negotiating table — including passports, a political office and the release of prisoners.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll warns that there is no end in sight to America's longest war: "Most of the generals ... say in public, 'There's no military solution to this war.'"
As the U.S. sends more troops to Afghanistan and ratchets up airstrikes, a new report from a U.S. military auditor suggests that the war is still at a stalemate.
Three staff members were killed and more than a dozen wounded when gunmen attacked the aid organization. ISIS has claimed responsibility; the Taliban have specifically denied any involvement.
The Pentagon did not immediately explain what kind of combat the service members were engaged in at the time or whether they were fighting ISIS or the Taliban.
An ISIS affiliate managed to emerge in Afghanistan despite the U.S. military's continued presence in the fight against the Taliban. Pakistan also denies the presence of ISIS despite recent attacks.
"Justice is not rescuing Sgt. Bergdahl from his Taliban captors, in the cage where he was for years, only to place him in a cell," said his defense. But prosecutors say he must be held responsible.
Mlitary prosecutors have called on several current and former service members who looked for Bergdahl in the days immediately after he walked away from his post in Afghanistan.