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Six UK soldiers and two Afghan police were wounded in the incident on Tuesday at a compound in the Nad-e'Ali district in southern Helmand province where British troops were training police officers. Abdul Ahad Helmanwal, the chief of the district council,...
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An Afghan policeman has shot dead five British soldiers at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, the defense ministry in London said on Wednesday. The men, three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military Police, were shot in Helmand province...
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Australia has been warned it may be locked into Afghanistan for years by a worsening war and problems in building a new Afghan Army capable of replacing foreign troops. The main mission of Australia's expanded commitment of about 1500 troops is to train...
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Around two dozen people were injured in the attack, which took place in a busy market in Jandola town in a semi-tribal region of North-West Frontier Province. "The suicide bombing was apparently aimed at the members of a Turkistan group," said an intelligence...
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With Afghanistan's presidential elections in summer, arrival of more international troops and a rise in militancy, Ban has said that he expects attacks and armed clashes to increase in the war-shattered country. The UN chief in a report to the Security...
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Several armed men ambushed and killed provincial Refugees Affairs Department director Abdul Satar Mazhari on Sunday afternoon, officials told Press TV. The director was beheaded in his house in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, a spokesman for the...
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Helmand, blast killing, Nimruz, southern province, afghans police, nimruz province, suicide attack
A coalition warplane bombed an Afghan police outpost during a battle with suspected Taliban fighters early Wednesday, killing six officers in what a U.S. military spokesman called "a tragic case of mistaken identity." "Coalition forces deeply regret the...
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Sunday. " Late Saturday night an aircraft of international troops mistakenly targeted a police checkpoint in Anardara district killing and wounding a number of our policemen," Najibullah Popal of the provincial police said. The officer did not give the...
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The cannabis product had an estimated wholesale value of $400 million (200 million pounds). It was found in a series of trenches in southern Kandahar province, near the Pakistan border, which were then set on fire...Police had also seized about 5.1 tons...
Tags: Kandahar Province, afghans police, Pakistan, afghans seize, David Miliband, pakistan border, biggest drugs, afghans commandos, drugs trade, southern kandahar