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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
The civilian lorries were parked overnight in a large staging area when a bomb exploded on one and the fire quickly spread. Afghan drivers managed to save many trucks from the attack in Samangan province, but around two dozen were lost. Sidiq Azizi,...
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DAWN
| 10 months ago
Eight Afghan civilians were killed in a Taliban bombing in northern Afghanistan on Thursday and two Nato soldiers were killed in similar bombs elsewhere in the troubled country, officials said. The civilians died in northern Faryab province when...
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The Reporter
| 10 months ago
Elsewhere in the country, a suicide bomber killed three Afghan soldiers at a checkpoint in the east, while militants killed nine more government troops in an ambush in the south...The violence comes as Afghan forces are taking charge of security in...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
Khalil Andarabi , said the predawn explosion targeted a fuel pump, setting off a conflagration. He said authorities were investigating whether the bomb had been attached to the pump by magnet or planted nearby. The attack marked the second major...
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Epoch Times
| 10 months ago
Officials told the BBC that the bomb was attached underneath a truck and when it went off, it triggered several explosions that consumed the nearly two dozen tankers. They were parked at a rest stop in Samangan Province, located in the country's...
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Al Jazeera
| 10 months ago
A magnetic bomb stuck to the side of a truck triggered a series of powerful explosions in what were mainly fuel tankers parked overnight at a rest stop in Samangan in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said. Ghulam Sakhi Baghlani, Samangan...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
Afghan authorities were investigating whether the checkpoint attack in Helmand's remote and arid Washer district was organized with the help of an Afghan soldier whose whereabouts since the raid were unknown, said Daud Ahmadi, a spokesman for Helmand'...
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Voice of America
| 10 months ago
The bomb exploded in Samangan province and caused the fuel tankers and supply vehicles to catch fire...Few trucks have so far crossed the Afghan border since Pakistan reopened the supply lines earlier this month. Afghanistan on Wednesday. Two other...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
The fire from the massive explosion was still burning Wednesday morning...Since it was early in the morning, there were not a lot of people around. Otherwise, it could have caused a lot more casualties,'' the official told the BBC. A bomb placed...
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BBC South Asia
| 10 months ago
Taliban bomb destroys 22 Nato fuel tankers A bomb planted by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan has destroyed 22 Nato fuel tankers carrying supplies to coalition forces, local officials say. The vehicles were hit by a pre-dawn explosion which...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 10 months ago
One died after an improvised bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday and the other was killed in an insurgent attack in the south on Tuesday. Brigadier General Gunter Katz said this week that there had been an increase in insurgent attacks...
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AP Online
| 10 months ago
Afghanistan, codifying a somewhat informal arrangement that has fueled the Afghan war over the past decade, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Pakistan pushed for a written pact in drawn-out negotiations that led to the supply line's...
