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Bomb blast kills five Afghan border policemen
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 3 days ago
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Five Afghan border policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan Sunday, a police official said. The explosion happened in Spin Boldak, a district in the volatile province of Kandahar bordering Pakistan, said General Abdul Raziq,...
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Iraqi Police Say Roadside Bomb Kills 2 Soldiers
Baghdad :: Iraq | 10 days ago
Credibility Iraqi police say a roadside bomb has exploded near an army checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding two more. Police Col. Saad al-Shamari says the bomb exploded early Saturday outside Fallujah, which is 40 miles west of the Iraqi...
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Landmine blast kills 8 Pakistani soldiers
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 13 days ago
Credibility A landmine explosion and an ambush by militants killed at least 10 Pakistani soldiers in separate incidents in the northwest region, security officials said. Eight of the soldiers died Wednesday in the Daw Jungi area after their vehicle hit a landmine,...
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Roadside bombing kills seven soldiers in Pakistan
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 24 days ago
Credibility Following the blast the paramilitary Frontier Corps pounded several hideouts of Islamist insurgents in the region with artillery, Khan added. Pakistani forces in September launched an offensive against Taliban-linked militants in Khyber, which lies on...
Tags: Pakistan, roadside bomb, Taliban, south Afghanistan, bomb kills, security forces, security men, tribal area, Kandahar, Peshawar
Minister defends UK forces' kit
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 24 days ago
Credibility But Bill Rammell said "no military chief" and "no minister" could guarantee against the loss of life. He was speaking after it emerged the most senior British officer killed there had warned about the risks posed to troops by a shortage of helicopters.
Tags: Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, Afghanistan, roadside bomb, helicopter shortages
Afghanistan taxi blast kills 9 civilians
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 25 days ago
Credibility 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
Nine die in swathe of Iraq violence
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 month ago
Credibility Nine people were killed, including six soldiers and two policemen, in a swathe of bombings and shootings across Iraq on Saturday. In the deadliest attack, four soldiers died and 10 others were wounded when their patrol struck a roadside bomb near a petrol...
Tags: Iraq, U.S, Baghdad, Fallujah, roadside bomb, Ramadi, western iraq, Syria, iraqis soldiers, truck bomb
Roadside bomb kills local officials in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility A roadside bomb killed two regional officials in a remote part of Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest insurgent attack on local government targets, a regional police chief said. Afghanistan has seen a dramatic rise of violence this year as 100,000 Western...
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, roadside bomb, Taliban
Iraq: Roadside bomb kills 3 northeast of Baghdad
Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 month ago
Credibility Police spokesman Major Ghalib Al Kharki says that a police colonel was among those killed in the attack that took place late Wednesday. He says four policemen were also wounded in the bombing, which targeted a police patrol on the outskirts of the town...
Tags: Iraqi, Baghdad, roadside bomb, bomb killing
Roadside bomb kills 30 in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility The blast happened near the southern city of Kandahar, on a highway where an explosion killed three civilians on Monday. A local official blamed the Taleban for planting the devices. More than 1,500 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
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