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NATO airstrike said to kill 10 children in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed 11 civilians, 10 of them children, in addition to the Taliban militants it was trying to hit, Afghan officials said. The strike late Saturday in the Shigal district of restive Kunar...
Tags: Terrorism, Explosions, Pakistan, NATO, Taliban
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10 Afghan police officers, seven others drugged and slain
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Ten members of an Afghan rural paramilitary force and seven others were drugged and killed at an outpost in a volatile eastern province, officials said Wednesday, in the latest deadly poisoning attributed to Taliban insurgents. The...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Physical Conditions, Murder, Rebellions, Shootings
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U.S. military denies abducting, killing civilians in Afghan province
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. military has determined that its forces weren’t involved in the alleged abduction and killing of civilians in a troubled province in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday. "In recent months, a thorough review...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense, Taliban
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Suicide attack kills nearly 50 in western Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide bombing and armed attack rocked a government compound in western Afghanistan near Iran on Wednesday, leaving at least 49 people dead, including the nine attackers, and wounding more than 50, officials said. The...
Tags: Pakistan, National Government, Explosions, Military Equipment, NATO
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Afghan president orders U.S. special forces out of strategic province
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday ordered U.S. special forces troops to leave a strategic eastern province, accusing the Americans and Afghans working for them of torturing and abducting civilians. Karzai's office charged...
Tags: West Bank, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Armed Forces
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Roadside bomb kills 7 Afghan police, 2 civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan – Seven Afghan border police were killed Thursday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. Two civilians also were killed. The incident occurred about 4 p.m. while the team of border...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rebellions, Bombings, Taliban, Afghanistan
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U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's...
Tags: National Government, Pakistan, Hospitals and Clinics, NATO, Reconstruction
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Roadside bomb in Afghanistan kills 9 civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb detonated under a bus in Afghanistan on Monday, killing nine civilians, officials said. It was the latest in a string of attacks over the past week that have left noncombatants dead. The bus was driving from the...
Tags: Firearms, U.S. Embassy, Explosions, Motorvehicle Accidents, NATO
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10 hurt in Afghanistan suicide attack
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Afghan army soldiers Wednesday morning in a western district of Kabul, wounding six of them and four civilians in the second security incident in the capital this week. As snow fell over the...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Suicide, Bombings, Taliban
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Six Americans killed in Afghan attacks as top U.S. commander visits
KABUL, Afghanistan — On the same day that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrived in Afghanistan for an assessment visit, six Americans were killed Saturday in attacks by Afghanistan insurgents. Hours after Dempsey arrived in...Tags: Martin Dempsey, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions
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Attack on convoy in Afghanistan leaves 5 Americans dead
KABUL, Afghanistan — On the day that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrived in Afghanistan for an assessment visit, six Americans were killed Saturday in attacks by insurgents. Hours after Dempsey arrived, five Americans...
Tags: Martin Dempsey, Explosions, NATO, Rebellions, Armed Conflicts
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Kerry arrives for Afghanistan visit, will skip Pakistan for now
KABUL, Afghanistan -- In his debut diplomatic swing, Secretary of State John F. Kerry is sidestepping Pakistan for fear that Pakistanis could misinterpret a visit as American meddling in the country’s historic effort to choose a new civilian...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Pakistan, National Government, Elections, Politics
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