Seven Die in Clashes Over Ousted Afghan Governor
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Seven supporters of an  ousted Afghan governor were killed and 20 were wounded on  Sunday in clashes with police and U.S. troops after crowds  torched U.N. offices, medics and witnesses said.
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Nigeria's Rivers State governor axes his cabinet after renewed clashes in the oil-rich city of Port Harcourt leave seven dead.
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A provincial governor said Monday he had warned an anti-Taliban militia leader targeted in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide attack since the 2001 invasion that militants were trying to kill him. The death toll rose to more than 100.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in separate clashes in a southern Afghan province where hundreds of militants have gathered, a police official said Tuesday.
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A seven-hour gun battle between suspected Islamic militants and police in northwest Pakistan Saturday left three extremists and two policemen dead, officials said.
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At least seven supporters of the ousted governor of Herat in western Afghanistan (news - web sites) were killed Sunday and 20 wounded in clashes with US troops
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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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Three protesters were hurt in the western Afghan city of Herat after the government sacked an Afghan warlord as governor in a bid to strengthen President Hamid Karzai's authority ahead of elections.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A deputy provincial governor along with four other people were killed while praying in a mosque on Thursday in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a doctor said.
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KABUL : Three protesters were hurt in the western Afghan city of Herat after the government sacked an Afghan warlord as governor in a bid to strengthen President Hamid Karzai&#39;s authority ahead of elections.
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The capital of an Afghanistan&#39;s western province was engulfed in tension as demonstrators loyal toformer governor of Herat province looted and burned local army barracks and UN
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Afghan security forces clashed with Taliban militants in a firefight in southern Afghanistan, killing 60 insurgents and four soldiers, an Afghan official said Wednesday.
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At least nine were killed Tuesday in the clashes between Pakistani security forces and militants in the South Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, Daily Times reported Wednesday.
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A curfew has been imposed on the Afghan city of Herat after protests over the sacking of former governor Ismail Khan, local television reports said.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - A renegade Afghan commander  seized ground in fresh fighting in the western province of  Herat on Tuesday, sources said, despite the deployment of  troops from Kabul to support the besieged governor.
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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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Hundreds of supporters of the deposed governor of Afghanistan&#39;s western province of Herat took to the streets and torched UN offices on Sunday to protest against his removal by President Hamid Karzai.