Red Cross staff seized, Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan
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Four Red Cross staff, two of them foreigners, were held by unknown kidnappers Thursday as military officials announced two Danish soldiers were killed in a new attack by extremist Taliban fighters.
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A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers after a police rescue operation ended in tragedy, interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told AFP.
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Two Red Cross workers are killed at a Palestinian refugee camp where troops are battling militants, officials say.
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A British soldier has been killed and four others injured in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said Saturday.
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A British soldier has been killed and another injured while serving with NATO-led forces in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said Monday.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - The U.S. military said coalition and Afghan troops killed six Taliban and arrested four in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, though a provincial official and residents said the casualties were villagers.
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KABUL, Afghanistan A Turkish construction engineer has been kidnapped and killed by suspected Muslim militants opposed to the international reconstruction effort in Afghanistan, government officials said Wednesday.
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Police detained five men Friday in connection with the killing of a German aid worker in northern Afghanistan, officials said. The five were detained in the province of Sari Pul, where Dieter Ruebling, 65, worked for aid group German Agro Action, said police spokesman Zemrai Bashary.
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Eight US soldiers involved in efforts to defeat extremist Taliban militants in Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash as authorities reported the killings of seven Afghans in new unrest.
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KABUL: Seven people including two US soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan in the past two days. In the first incident, two US soldiers were killed and three were wounded by a roadside
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A second NATO soldier was killed Thursday as Taliban strongholds came under attack in the alliance's biggest joint operation with Afghan forces.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber on a   bicycle killed four Canadian NATO soldiers in Afghanistan on   Monday as they were trying to reassure villagers about safety,   while 15 Afghans were killed in two other blasts.
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Two British soldiers were killed Tuesday and a third was presumed dead in fighting a day after a NATO-led security force took command of southern Afghanistan.
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The Red Cross said Saturday it has recovered all 11 bodies presumed to be lawmakers who were killed in a shootout while held hostage by leftist rebels.
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Two Dutch soldiers were killed in a clash with militants in Afghanistan, the Netherlands' Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
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An unidentified coalition soldier was killed during an assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan as a Spanish soldier and 21 rebels were killed in weekend violence.
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A guard working for an aid group in Somalia was killed in a raid on its offices, two German partner organizations said Thursday.