Violence Returns to Afghanistan After Election Lull
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Afghan children and U.S. soldiers were among six people reported killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, a week after millions voted in a landmark election they hope will bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.
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US-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- US troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters, in southern Afghanistan, the military said Monday -- the latest bloodshed ahead of historic Afghan elections.
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Vote counting has resumed in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election. Hundreds of election staff got back to work on Saturday after a day of rest marking the beginning of Ramadan.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan vowed on  Wednesday to bolster security in the volatile south and  southeast ahead of a landmark election, as Taliban guerrillas  bent on disrupting the poll launched a fresh wave of attacks.
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The campaign for Afghanistan's first  direct presidential election opened to little fanfare on  Tuesday, while the Taliban, ousted in 2001 in a U.S.-led  invasion, vowed again to disrupt the Oct. 9 poll.
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Insecurity and intimidation are putting October elections in Afghanistan at risk, a new report says.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 9, 2004 - Afghans crammed polling stations for their country&#39;s first-ever direct election Saturday, defying the threat of Taliban violence in the hope of bringing peace and some economic
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Ballots are being counted in Afghanistan, after delays created by irregularities in Saturday's elections.
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Troops of Pakistani para-military force check Afghan refugee voters before they enter in polling station to vote in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election at Jallozai camp near Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004.
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With elections just days away, an increase of violence is casting doubt on the whether voters will show up at all.
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Election officials are preparing to investigate complaints of fraud and irregularities in Afghanistan's polls, which passed off peacefully with millions of men and women turning out despite the threat of violence.
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Rival sides in post-election dispute resume talks aimed at ending violent unrest that has claimed the lives of at least 1,000 people
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Hamid Karzai was cruising to victory in  Afghanistan's first direct presidential elections, but by  Wednesday the returns so far have underscored the ethnic fault  lines that have often divided the country.
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Taliban guerrillas fired rockets in parts  of Afghanistan on Friday, the eve of the first presidential  election in the rugged, war-torn land, underlining the threat  of sabotage by the Islamic fundamentalist insurgents.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan -- Guerrillas from the ousted Taliban regime killed at least 12 government soldiers in southern Afghanistan yesterday in a sharp escalation of violence ahead of the landmark presidential election this month.
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KABUL: Afghans vote Saturday in the first direct presidential elections in their history, under the threat of violence from anti-US militants and Osama bin Laden&#39;s terror network.