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All posts tagged "Afghanistan"
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1.0KWorldIsis attack kills three female journalists as they leave TV studio in Afghanistan
Isis has declared responsibility for an attack on Tuesday night that killed three female media workers and injured a fourth as they were...
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562WorldEngine explosion, fire kill ten Afghan civilians: Officials
A minivan carrying civilians caught fire Wednesday after its engine exploded in southern Afghanistan killing ten family members, including three children, an...
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590WorldFour Pakistani soldiers, four insurgents killed in clashes near Afghanistan border
A group of militants attacked a security post in a former Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, triggering a shootout that killed four...
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1.1KWorldFemale journalist killed by gunmen in Afghanistan
Gunmen shot and killed a female television journalist, who was also a women’s rights activist, in Afghanistan on Thursday, an incident that...
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700WorldAustralia says 13 soldiers told they face dismissal after Afghan report
Australia has told 13 special forces soldiers they face dismissal in relation to a report on alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan, the...
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636WorldTwin blasts in Afghan province of Bamiyan kill 14 people, injure 45
Twin explosions in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan killed at least 14 people and wounded 45 more, provincial officials said on...
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480WorldUN, other officials seek funds for Afghanistan at virtual donors conference
Top officials including the UN secretary-general and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were taking part in a largely virtual pledging conference...
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638WorldUK likely to cut number of troops in Afghanistan
British Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace declared on Thursday the United Kingdom might follow the United States and cut down...
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862WorldAfghan woman shot, blinded, for getting a job
The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job...
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599WorldAt least 25 Afghan security personnel killed by Taliban
At least 25 Afghan security force personnel were killed in an ambush blamed on the Taliban, officials said Wednesday, as spiraling violence...
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614WorldSoldier killed in Pakistan, another wounded by firing from Afghanistan
Pakistan’s military on Wednesday said a soldier was killed and another wounded in the country’s northwest by fire from across the Afghan...
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621WorldAfghan governor survives targeted suicide attack in Afghanistan that kills 8 people
A suicide attack targeting an Afghan provincial governor killed at least eight people on Monday, officials said, as the president traveled to...
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579WorldAt least 15 killed in truck bomb attack in Afghanistan
Attackers set off a truck bomb in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, according...
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578WorldAt least 14 Afghan security forces killed as violence grips country
At least 14 Afghan soldiers and police were killed during intense fighting with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, as...
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682WorldGovernment airstrikes in Afghanistan kill 24 civilians, including children
Government airstrikes in the north of Afghanistan killed 24 civilians, including children, and wounded six others, witnesses told The Associated Press on...
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848WorldRoadside bomb attack misses Afghan vice president, but kills 10
A roadside bomb in Kabul targeted first Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Wednesday morning but he escaped unharmed, his spokesman said....
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910WorldAfghanistan says mother’s name can go on birth certificates
The Afghan government has accepted a proposal to put mothers’ names on their children’s birth certificates, in a win for women’s rights...
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803WorldLandmine kills 13 in southern Afghanistan
At least 13 people were killed on Friday when their vehicle set off a landmine in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, local officials...
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902WorldTaliban kill four survivors of Afghanistan flash floods
Taliban fighters killed four civilians on Thursday during clashes with Afghan forces in the central province of Parwan, amid rescue work after...
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780WorldFloods leave at least 70 dead in northern Afghanistan
Heavy flooding has killed at least 70 people and injured dozens of others as heavy seasonal rains drenched northern and eastern Afghanistan,...
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655WorldMass jailbreak in Afghanistan, at least 24 die in Islamic State attack
A gunbattle between Islamic State fighters and Afghan security forces raged at a prison in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Monday,...
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736WorldAirstrikes in Afghanistan kill 45 civilians and Taliban members
Airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan killed 45 people, including civilians and Taliban, local officials said on Wednesday. Ali Ahmad Faqir Yar, the governor...
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901WorldAfghan teenager shoots dead two Taliban militants who killed her parents
An Afghan girl has shot dead two Taliban militants and injured several others after they murdered her parents. The militants had stormed...
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638PoliticsTurkey suspends flights to Iran, Afghanistan due to coronavirus outbreak
Turkey has halted flights to Iran and Afghanistan as part of actions against the coronavirus outbreak, the Transport Ministry declared on Sunday....
