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Pair of bombings kills four policemen in Afghanistan
DAWN | 12 months agoA pair of bombings in southern Afghanistan killed four policemen, police said. Police official Gulab Khan said both incidents involved bombs hidden in motorcycles that exploded as police vehicles were passing by in Tarin Kot, capital of Uruzgan... -
3 Afghan soldiers injured by roadside bomb
United Press International | 12 months agoA roadside bomb explosion in northeastern Afghanistan Friday injured at least three Afghan national army soldiers, local authorities said. Kapisa provincial security spokesman Asadullah Hamidi said the explosion occurred in the Ghazi Khel area of... -
Taliban insurgents attack NATO base
Sydney Morning Herald | 12 months agoFriday in eastern Afghanistan, but coalition forces repelled the attack, killing 14 militants, officials say. Islamic movement remains a resilient force even as Afghan President Hamid Karzai insists they do not have the means to retake the nation... -
Fort Bragg soldier killed in Afghanistan
The News & Observer | 12 months agoFrom staff reports A Fort Bragg-based soldier was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan, according to the Defense Department...Olivas, 20, of Fairfield, Ohio, was killed when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device in Kandahar... -
Afghan Taliban attack Khost army base
Al Jazeera | 12 months ago10 At least four Taliban fighters have been killed during a suicide attack in the border city of Khost in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban said its fighters rammed a vehicle packed with large amounts of explosives into the city's US military base on... -
Afghan insurgents attack coalition base: NATO
The Globe & Mail | 12 months agoA suicide car bomber and other insurgents attacked a U.S.-led coalition base Friday outside of Khost, the capital of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said. There was no immediate information about military casualties, but at... -
Suicide bomb attack on Afghan NATO base: 7 killed, 13 injured
Russia Today | 12 months agoAfghan authorities have foiled a bomb plot in the Defense Ministry which had the potential of inflicting massive casualties. As more US troops are killed by friendly Afghans, the level of support for the war in US has reached lowest point ever. Khost... -
Bomber attacks Afghan Nato base
BBC South Asia | 12 months agoA suicide bomber has attacked a base of the Nato-led peacekeeping force (Isaf) in eastern Afghanistan. The attacker drove a lorry laden with explosives at the base in Khost province, a security source in Kabul and a Taliban spokesman both said. Isaf... -
NATO Base Attacked in Afghanistan
Voice of America | 12 months agoAuthorities say attackers drove a vehicle full of explosives onto the base Friday in Khost province. The French news agency quotes a security official as saying up to seven Afghans were killed in the attack. Violence has surged across Afghanistan... -
NATO: Afghan insurgents attack coalition base
AP Online | 12 months agoSardar Mohammad Zazai says a very strong blast occurred at a base about 5 kilometers (3 miles) outside Khost.Gen. Gula Jan, an Afghan police official who is at the scene, says it occurred at Camp Salerno.
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Suicide attack kills seven Afghans at Nato base: official
DAWN | 12 months agoA suicide attacker rammed a truck packed with explosives into a checkpoint at a Nato base on Friday, killing up to seven Afghans in the east of the country, a security official said. The attacker drove his truck full of explosives into the first...
