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Afghanistan taxi blast kills 9 civilians
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 29 days ago
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Former French president Jacques Chirac will stand trial for an alleged corruption scandal from his years as Paris mayor. A so-called spokesman for a Somalian pirate group holding a British couple captive says they will be moved to another hijacked ship...
Tags: Afghanistan, blast killing, roadside bomb, Nangarhar, nangarhar province
Karzai brother says survives ambush
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 months ago
Credibility KABUL: A brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday he had been ambushed on the road to Kabul by Taliban insurgents, who killed one of his bodyguards in the early morning attack. Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of the provincial government council...
Tags: Ahmad Wali Karzai, Nangarhar, Jalalabad, opened fire
Karzai brother 'survives attack'
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 months ago
Credibility Mr Karzai, leader of the provincial council in Kandahar, said one of his bodyguards was killed by the attackers, who used rockets and machine-guns. His convoy was ambushed when it was travelling to the capital, Kabul...Meanwhile, authorities in eastern...
Tags: Ahmadi Wali Karzai, Ahmad Wali Karzai, Kabul-Jalalabad, afghans president, Hamid Karzai, president hamid, Kandahar, Nangarhar, Mr Karzai, nangarhar province
Accounts of Afghan civilian deaths vary
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 6 months ago
Credibility Parties involved in the May 4 deaths of scores of Afghan civilians give conflicting accounts of what happened, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The newspaper said after conducting interviews with U.S. and Afghan commanders, survivors and family...
Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, opened fire, press release, Nangarhar, Jalalabad, Nawbahar district
Afghan governor pulls out of presidential race
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 7 months ago
Credibility Afghan governor pulls out of presidential race A high-profile Afghan governor who had been tipped to run in presidential elections in August announced Saturday that he had decided not stand against President Hamid Karzai and other candidates. Gul Agha...
Tags: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Gul Agha Sherzai, U.S, Iraqi, president hamid, international troops, presidential race, eastern afghanistan, Nangarhar
Quakes rattle Afghan-Pakistan border
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 7 months ago
Credibility Two moderate earthquakes rattled the Hindu Kush border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the early hours of Friday, the US Geological Survey reported. A 5.5-magnitude quake struck at 1:57 am Afghan time (2127 GMT Thursday) 85 km southeast of the...
Tags: Afghanistan, eastern afghanistan, pakistan border, nangarhar province, Bangladesh, earthquake killing, Pakistan, Nangarhar, hit eastern
Dozens feared killed in Afghanistan quake
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 7 months ago
Credibility Villagers in eastern Afghanistan wailed in grief and scrambled through rubble today to recover the bodies of dozens of people feared killed in an earthquake. Mohammad Tahir Zahir, deputy head of the provincial council of Nangarhar province, said 40 people...
Tags: Afghanistan, Nangarhar, eastern afghanistan, nangarhar province, quake hit, Kabul, Sherzad, sherzad district
Suicide blast kills six Afghans
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 8 months ago
Credibility The bomber detonated his explosive laden car near the security check post in Chaparhar district on Saturday, killing five civilians and a policeman. Six others were also injured in the blast which occurred on the first day of Nowruz (the Afghan New Year).
Tags: Afghanistan, eastern afghanistan, bomb attack, Nangarhar, Khost, roadside bomb, suicide attack, suicide cars, Chaparhar, suicide bomber
South Korea receives first Patriot missiles
Seoul :: South Korea | 12 months ago
Credibility The South Korean air force said Friday it had taken delivery of a first shipment of US-made Patriot missiles, designed to protect against any attack by North Korea. They were bought second-hand from Germany and will replace the current ageing Nike air...
Tags: afghanistan, taliban spokesman, Mexico City, shot dead, Ex-Taliban, Nangarhar
Japanese aid worker, driver kidnapped in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Ghafour Khan, provincial police chief, also confirmed the abduction of Kazuya Ito and his driver near Jalalabad, and said police forces were deployed to the area to track down the kidnappers. No group immediately claimed responsibility for Tuesday's abduction.
Tags: aid worker, Afghanistan, Nangarhar, eastern afghanistan, Kazuya Ito, nangarhar province, Taliban, Japanese, Jalalabad, Khewa district
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