Afghan City Calm After Bloody Governor Protests
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - The western Afghan city of  Herat was calm Monday following bloody clashes between  supporters of the powerful ousted governor and U.S. and Afghan  forces sent to keep the peace.
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Hundreds of Afghan and coalition troops took up positions around the Afghan capital on Tuesday to prevent further anti-American riots a day after a deadly traffic accident set off the worst violence in the capital since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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The governor of an important and volatile southern province in Afghanistan escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded by his vehicle convoy, officials said.
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters may abandon  their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks  under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's  government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters could abandon their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Demonstrators broke into a UN compound in the western city of Herat on Sunday, a day after the Afghan government fired the city&#39;s warlord governor.
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KABUL: The new governor of Afghanistanâs riot-hit western province of Herat has told the news agency that he hopes aid agency staff, who pulled out of the provincial capital after violent attacks, will return soon.
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DHAKA : Riot police patrolled a tense Bangladeshi capital and a number of schools and colleges were closed in protest at a weekend grenade attack on a political rally that killed 19 people, witnesses said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a further assault on the embattled Afghan government, a suicide bomber killed six people yesterday at the funeral of a provincial governor who was assassinated by the Taliban. Four senior Cabinet ministers escaped injury.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Up to seven supporters of an  ousted Afghan governor were killed and 20 wounded on Sunday in  clashes with police and U.S. troops in the western city of  Herat, which was placed under night curfew.
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A curfew has been declared in the western Afghan city of Herat after at least seven people were killed in violent protests against the dismissal of the influential provincial governor, Ismail Khan.
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The man chosen to replace Ismail Khan as governor of Herat vows to restore order in the riot-hit western Afghan city.
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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 several U.S...
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Eight people have been arrested after a German aid worker was shot dead in northern Afghanistan, a governor said Friday, adding it was not clear if the killers were Islamist militants or bandits.
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Hundreds of supporters of the deposed governor of Afghanistan&#39;s western province of Herat took to the streets and burned United Nations offices on Sunday to protest against his removal by President Hamid Karzai.
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Deadly gunfire and explosions wracked Mogadishu Monday after weeks of relative calm as the Islamic militiamen controlling Somalia&#039;s capital battled one of the last pockets of resistance to their hard-line rule.
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Residents of the Russian town of Beslan,  scene of a hostage bloodbath at a school last year, took to the  streets on Friday to protest at what they consider an official  cover-up of the tragedy.