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Roadside bomb kills 6 policemen in Afghanistan
KABUL: An Afghan official says a powerful roadside bomb has killed six policemen in the country's west. The officers' vehicle hit the explosives planted in the road they were driving on Tuesday morning in Herat province. District Police Chief Sher Agha says the explosion was so strong that the police truck was completely destroyed in the blast in Obey district. He says there were no survivors. The policemen were guards of Salma..
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11 kills in Afghan suicide attack
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber struck outside government buildings in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 11 people including a senior local politician, police said. “There was a suicide bombing in front of the provincial council building in the city of Pul-e-Khumri,” Sadeq Muradi, Baghlan province’s deputy police chief, told to Foreign news agency. “At least 11 people,..
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Attacks kill ten police in Afghanistan
KABUL: Taliban attacks killed at least ten Afghan police on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence against the force which is due to take more security responsibility from Nato troops before their withdrawal next year. In one of the incidents, Taliban fighters attacked a security check post in the Muqur district of Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan, killing six police, according to district governor. “Six..
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Bomber in Afghanistan kills 15, including six Americans
KABUL: A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months. Forty people were wounded in the blast at around 8 am (0330 GMT) during the morning rush-hour. It caused heavy damage to mud-built houses in the vicinity. The Hezb-e-Islami insurgent group,..
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Suicide bombing kills six, injured 37 in Kabul attack
KABUL: As many as six Afghan civilian were killed and 37 others wounded in a powerful suicide car bomb targeting a Nato military convoy in Kabul killed on Thursday. As per details, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed (Toyota) Corolla car near a convoy of foreign forces. Government officials said six bystanders died in the explosion in the Shah Shaheed residential district in the southeast of Kabul, while 37..
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Twin bombs kill policeman, wound nine at Afghan checkpoint
KABUL: An Afghan official says two bombs have exploded at a checkpoint outside a provincial governor's compound in the country's east, killing at least one police officer. Nine people have been wounded in the blasts. The explosions struck early on Wednesday in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar province. The first bomb wounded a policeman. The second was remotely detonated minutes later as police swarmed to the scene to secure..
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Motorcycle bomb at Afghan market kills three people
KABUL: A bomb hidden in a parked motorcycle ripped through a crowded Afghan market in southern Helmand province on Tuesday, killing at least three people, as Nato reported that US special forces had come under attack the previous day north of Kabul. The attack on the Americans was the second that targeted international troops in Afghanistan on Monday. According to Nato spokesman Maj. Bryan Woods, a suicide bomber rammed his vehicle..
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Afghan roadside bomb kills 13 civilians: officials
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A bomb killed 13 civilians including women and children in southern Afghanistan on Monday as they travelled to attend the funeral of earlier bomb victims, police said. It was the latest violence since the Taliban launched their annual “spring offensive” on April 27, opening a crucial period for the country as its security forces take the lead in offensives against the insurgents. “The..
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Taliban vows to release remaining Turkish hostages soon
KABUL: Taliban leaders pledged on Monday to release the final four Turkish engineers held hostage since their helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan last month. Four other Turkish engineers aboard the helicopter were freed on Sunday, three weeks after the crash in Logar province, a Taliban stronghold south of the capital Kabul. The Taliban said in an emailed statement that the four had been released as a "goodwill, humanitarian..
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US want nine bases in Afghanistan: Karzai
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed Thursday to wring concessions from the United States in negotiations to sign a security pact, saying Washington wanted to retain nine military bases in the country. “We are in very serious negotiations with America,” he said. “America has got its demands; Afghanistan too has its own demands, and its own interests. They want nine bases across Afghanistan.” Karzai..
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Afghan minister vows punishment for girls feigning illness
KABUL: Afghanistan’s education minister has threatened to punish schoolgirls who claim to suffer from alleged “poisonings” that many officials believe are actually temporary psychological illnesses. Scores of girls’ schools over recent years have seen mysterious mass faintings, nausea and similar symptoms that are often blamed by police and the local media on poisoning by Taliban insurgents or toxic..
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Afghanistan lodges protest with Pakistan over border clash
JALALABAD: Afghanistan lodged an official protest with Pakistan on Monday after troops exchanged fire at the border between the countries. Kabul's Foreign Ministry said no one was wounded in the incident, which took took in the early morning in the same location where a firefight between Afghan and Pakistani forces killed an Afghan border policeman and wounded two Pakistani soldiers last week. During that incident, a border gate built..
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