Violence returns to Afghanistan
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Six people, including three children and two US soldiers, have been reported killed in Afghanistan, a week after millions voted in a landmark election meant to help bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.
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More than six years since the Taliban were ousted from power in Afghanistan, the militant movement is being "contained," with some 70 percent of violence last year occurring in just 10 percent of the country, NATO said.
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The Kabul bombing came amid a sharp escalation of violence in Afghanistan.
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More than 65 people, most of them Taliban, were killed in new violence in Afghanistan as the US-led coalition defended itself against criticism of civilian deaths in a major air strike.
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AFGHANISTAN KABUL -- A string of gun battles and bombings reported across Afghanistan yesterday killed 41 people, part of the largest wave of insurgent violence since the US-led invasion. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of two four-wheel-drive vehicles outside Kabul, wounding six. In Ghazni province, police killed 24 militants over the last 24 hours.
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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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Fierce fighting broke out around Afghanistan on Friday, with battles in three separate regions killing more than 100 militants, part of a cycle of rapidly rising violence five years into the U.S.-led effort to defeat the Taliban.
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Roadside bombs and military operations in Afghanistan killed 19 people, including 14 Taliban fighters, as the record violence that Afghanistan saw in 2007 continued into the new year, officials said Wednesday.
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KABUL -- Preying on a weak government and rising public concerns about security, the Taliban is enjoying a military resurgence in Afghanistan and is now staging attacks just outside the capital, according to Western diplomats, private security analysts and aid workers.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- US-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including Al Qaeda militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American commander said yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bombing aimed at a US military convoy triggered a chaotic round of gunfire on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, leaving at least eight Afghan civilians dead and about three dozen others wounded, officials said.
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Hundreds of people rallied across war-scarred Afghanistan Friday to call for an end to violence on the United Nations&#39; Day of Peace, as fighting linked to a Taliban-led insurgency continued.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Police fled a town in western Afghanistan yesterday and suspected Taliban militants briefly moved in -- the second time in a month that the government has lost control of a district in the area.
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At least 2,800 people have died in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan in the first six months of the year, according to a count by the Associated Press. The breakdown is based on AP figures unless otherwise stated.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Rival militias clashed in western Afghanistan yesterday, reportedly killing 21 people and ramping up concern about security as the country prepares for landmark elections.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers launched a second day of attacks in Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least four people in the capital and a northern city, raising tensions in areas that had been considered relatively secure.
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At least nine people have been killed in a series of attacks across Afghanistan, police say.