Security forces guard Kabul after riots
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Security forces in tanks and on foot took up positions around the Afghan capital Tuesday to prevent a repeat of deadly anti-foreigner riots &amp;#151; the most widespread violence in the city since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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A heavy security clampdown was enforced in the Afghan capital after the bombing of a US firm left at least seven dead and 28 wounded, and raised new fears about security just weeks before elections.
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of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and an Afghan policeman stand guard in front of a poster of President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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By PARVEEN AHMED Associated Press Writer DHAKA, Bangladesh . About 10,000 riot police and paramilitary troops patrolled the streets of the capital Sunday and stores and schools were closed across the country
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Security forces are on high alert as more protests are planned after last week's attack on a political rally in Dhaka.
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HERAT, Afghanistan: The western Afghan city of Herat has returned to calm following bloody riots over the sacking of the local governor which left at least four people dead and 50 injured.
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Afghan and U.S.-led forces placed Kabul  under tight security ahead of Tuesday's swearing in of  President Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan's first popularly elected  leader, as the Taliban threatened to disrupt the ceremony.
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Security was tightened across Kabul on Monday in the wake of a vehicle bomb on Sunday that killed three Americans working for an American contractor and at least four other people.
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Kabul was calm amid massive security for Hamid Karzai's inauguration ceremony, but overnight attacks provided a reminder of threats.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The military and police closed Afghanistan&#39;s main roads and cities Friday in a huge security operation in anticipation of bomb attacks or other violence during the country&#39;s first presidential election today.
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A German soldier, right, of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and an Afghan security police stand guard below a poster of President Hamid Karzai in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.
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Security is extremely tight around the Afghan capital as Hamid Karzai prepares to be sworn in as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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A curfew restores some calm in the Afghan city of Herat, after violent   protests at the sacking of its governor.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - On the eve of Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election, Muslim clerics urged Friday worshippers to embrace democracy, election workers scurried to ready voting booths and 100,000 troops went on high alert across the country.    In Peshawar, Pakistan late Friday, armed men wounded one police officer at a refugee camp polling site just hours before the Afghan refugees were to vote, police said...
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KABUL, Afghanistan US-led forces trying to protect next month&#39;s landmark elections in Afghanistan are facing a rising wave of violence from several thousand insurgents.
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Iraqi security forces and American troops have been patrolling the battered streets of Samarra as normal life began returning after a US-led assault wrested the city from rebels.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai's sacking of a warlord governor in the west of the country ransacked U.N. compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday, leaving as many as three people dead and dozens wounded, including three U.S...