UN buildings attacked in west Afghanistan
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Two United Nations buildings in the western Afghan city of Herat were attacked on Sunday by demonstrators protesting the dismissal of Herat Governor Ismael Khan, a police official said.
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A group of Western and Afghan aid organizations in Afghanistan has launched a blistering attack on foreign troops for not doing more to prevent civilian deaths in their hunt for Taliban fighters and other insurgents.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US and Afghan forces seeking three kidnapped UN workers raided two houses in downtown Kabul on Monday, smashing through walls and doors to detain 10 people and question residents on whether they had seen the missing foreigners.
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Demonstrators broke into a U.N. compound in the western city of Herat on Sunday, a day after the Afghan government fired the city's warlord governor.
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A suicide attack in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday injured six people, including two international peacekeepers, police said.
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Two people were injured as demonstrators attacked United Nations buildings in this western Afghan city in protest at the sacking of governor Ismael Khan, UN and police officials said.
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According to a Danish aid group, eight Afghan villagers were killed and an Afghan aid worker injured on Aug. 30, as US-led coalition planes bombed Weradesh in the Pech district of Konar province.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen wearing military uniforms kidnapped three foreign UN election workers here in a daylight attack yesterday in one of the most affluent and heavily guarded areas of the city. The kidnappings, coming five days after a suicide bomber killed two people, including an American woman, on a busy shopping street, raised fears that the Afghan capital could ...
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At least 16 people, many of them children, were killed in explosions at the office of a US security contractor in Afghanistanâs capital and a school in the south east as the country moves towards its first post-Taliban election.
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Men in military uniforms held up a United Nations vehicle in Kabul yesterday and abducted three election workers at gunpoint. It was the first kidnapping of UN or aid workers
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HERAT, Afghanistan Demonstrators ransacked and burned at least four United Nations office compounds here as well as a human rights office as they clashed Sunday with the national police and army over the central government&#39;s removal of the governor
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UNITED NATIONS  A year after the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad killed 22 people, the United Nations remains a target for attacks in Iraq and UN staff angrily allege that major security ...
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Swiss authorities have informed the United Nations of a threatened attack against its European headquarters in Geneva, its biggest premises outside of New York, a U.N. statement said on Thursday.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Six Afghans, including two women and a child, were wounded, the head of a local hospital said on Sunday, after a military operation supported by Western air power in southern Afghanistan.
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US and Afghan soldiers have raided houses in downtown Kabul early Monday in an operation aimed at releasing three foreign UN hostages, who were abducted last month.
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Key countries involved in Afghanistan urged the United Nations on Sunday to expand its role there, but Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said continuing violence kept the world body from operating in some areas.
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Militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in volatile southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing 19 of the laborers, the Interior Ministry said. The attack occurred shortly after noon in Kandahar province when a roadside bomb exploded near the bus, said Zemeri Bashary, the Interior Ministry spokesman.