Rise in Afghan suicide attacks seen
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHARANA, Afghanistan -- The incoming commander of US troops in Afghanistan said yesterday he expects Taliban militants to launch more suicide attacks this year than in 2006, when militants set off a record 139 such bombings.
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A suicide attack tore through a crowded southern Afghan town, killing 18 people, while a powerful bomb blast in Kabul killed an Italian soldier and a child in a new wave of Taliban violence.
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A suicide bomber killed some 80 people, including a local police chief, and wounded nearly 100 more at a dog fighting festival just outside Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Attacks near the Afghan border with Pakistan triple in some areas despite a peace deal, the US military says.
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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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Officials in Afghanistan say an apparent suicide bombing has injured at least seven people in downtown Kabul&#39;s market district.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide car attack killed at least five people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, police and a hospital doctor said, the latest deaths in the bloodiest year since the Taliban was overthrown in 2001.
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Attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq with bombs believed linked to Iran -- known as explosively-formed penetrators (EFPs) -- have risen sharply in January after several months of decline, according to the top U.S. commander in Iraq.
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KAFIR BAND, Afghanistan -- Three suicide bombers killed at least 19 people across Afghanistan yesterday, including four Canadian soldiers in an attack that tested NATO's assertion of success in driving insurgents from this volatile southern region.
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The spiralling number of suicide attacks in Afghanistan are often carried out by young Afghan men who pass through religious schools in Pakistan, a United Nations report said Sunday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A loud explosion on Tuesday hit the southern Afghan province of Kandahar where more than 140 people, most of them civilians, were killed in two suspected suicide raids in the past two days, witnesses said.
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KABUL, Sept. 8 -- More than 80 percent of suicide bombers in Afghanistan are recruited and trained in neighboring Pakistan, the United Nations said in a report that showed attacks running at record levels this year.
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The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has worsened in the last year and civilians are bearing the brunt of suicide attacks and aerial bombing raids, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday.
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Officials knew that a suicide bomber was at large before an attack during the vice presidentâs trip to Afghanistan.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 18 -- A suicide car bomber killed 38 Afghans at a crowded market Monday, pushing the death toll from two days of bombings to about 140.
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A Taliban spokesman warned Tuesday that militants would increase attacks against restaurants in Kabul frequented by Westerners
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Suicide bombers in Afghanistan may be recruited from Pakistan, a Pakistani minister says in a rare admission.