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Afghanistan attacks kill 8 US soldiers
Eight American troops died in attacks in southern Afghanistan, including a car bombing and gunfight outside a police compound in Kandahar, officials said Wednesday as the Taliban push back against a coalition effort to secure the volatile region. A (...)

15 - 07 - 2010
NATO, civilians give two accounts of fatal operation
NATO said Monday that a Taliban commander was among several armed people killed during a search operation in Kandahar, but residents claimed the troops killed eight innocent civilians, including two elderly men. NATO said in a statement that (...)

29 - 06 - 2010
Karzai seeks support for Kandahar operation
President Hamid Karzai called Sunday on community leaders in Kandahar to support a NATO campaign to bolster security in this Taliban stronghold, urging people to work with his government to “bring dignity back.” NATO has already begun an operation (...)

14 - 06 - 2010
Two killed in Afghan blasts
Three explosions struck Kandahar Monday morning, killing two civilians amid a wave of violence that has swept the key southern Afghan city where the US is planning an offensive to clear out the Taliban. The UN said Monday that the deteriorating (...)

27 - 04 - 2010
Taliban will confront NATO attack
The Taliban are moving fighters into Kandahar, planting bombs and plotting attacks as NATO and Afghan forces prepare for a summer showdown with insurgents, according to a Taliban commander with close ties to senior insurgent leaders. NATO and (...)

20 - 04 - 2010
6 killed in powerful Kandahar bombings
Two powerful bombings rocked the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Thursday, killing three foreigners and three Afghan soldiers, according to President Hamid Karzai's half brother. Meanwhile, four German soldiers were killed in fighting in the (...)

16 - 04 - 2010
Attacks kill 4 NATO personnel in Afghanistan
Four NATO service members died Monday in separate attacks across Afghanistan, including a suicide car bomb that targeted an international military convey as it crossed a bridge in the Taliban-dominated south, the coalition said. Nine Afghan (...)

02 - 03 - 2010
UN office attacked in southern Afghan city
A fierce gunbattle broke out between security forces and a team of Taliban fighters targeting UN and government buildings Friday in a major city in southern Afghanistan. The fighting in Lashkar Gah came nearly two weeks after a similar assault in (...)

30 - 01 - 2010
Nine Afghan civilians killed in airstrike
An overnight airstrike by international forces killed nine civilians, including at least three children, villagers said Thursday. Afghan authorities said they had no reports of civilian deaths. Residents of Korkhashien village drove the bodies to (...)

06 - 11 - 2009
30 Afghans killed as bus hits mine
A bus packed with Afghan civilians hit a roadside bomb near the southern city of Kandahar Tuesday, killing 30 people and wounding 39, underscoring the dangers civilians face as the eight-year war turns increasingly violent. Nine women and seven (...)

30 - 09 - 2009
Acid attacks threaten Afghan schoolgirls
No student showed up on Friday at Mirwais Mena girls' school in the Taleban's spiritual birthplace as the day before, men on motorcycles attacked 15 girls and teachers with acid. The men squirted the acid from water bottles onto three groups of (...)

15 - 11 - 2008
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