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A bomb attack Friday against a convoy of French troops killed one soldier and injured many Afghans near the blast, while heavy fighting in southern Afghanistan killed about 75 Taliban fighters and six civilians, officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 6, 2004 - Campaigning for Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Eight Afghan border security soldiers and five Taliban fighters have been killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, a senior official said on Sunday.
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KABUL, Sept 22 : Three US soldiers were killed and 14 wounded in a series of fierce clashes with suspected Taliban fighters in south and eastern Afghanistan this week, the US military said Wednesday.
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A suicide blast tore through a crowd of men watching dog fighting in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday, killing 80 people and wounding dozens more, a provincial governor said.
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Afghan and NATO-led forces killed or wounded more than two dozen insurgents in a 21-hour battle in the northeast of the country close to the border with Pakistan, the alliance said on Saturday.
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KABUL/Kandahar, Oct. 9. - Gun battles, mine blasts and US air strikes on the day of Afghanistanâs first post-Taliban election left 38 people dead today, Afghan officials said, including three police officers escorting freshly filled ballot boxes.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - At least eight people were killed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday in a suicide car bombing against foreign troops and subsequent gunfire by the soldiers, police and witnesses said.
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Scores of rebels and a dozen local police and soldiers were killed in an upsurge of fighting in Afghanistan in the past two days that also left several civilians dead, officials said Saturday.
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U.S. and Afghan troops killed or wounded more than two dozen Taliban fighters during a 21-hour battle in eastern Afghanistan that ended Saturday, military officials said.
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At least eight policemen were killed Thursday during an operation by U.S.-led coalition troops in central Afghanistan, which also left several insurgents dead, officials said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan police killed 33 Taliban insurgents after a roadside bomb detonated by militants killed eight policemen in the southern province of Kandahar, the provincial governor said on Tuesday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 13 -- More than 60 people died in violence in Pakistan on Thursday, including at least 15 soldiers who were killed by an explosion in a heavily secured dining hall for army commandos.
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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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A suicide blast in the Afghan capital has wounded three NATO soldiers and three civilians, while officials said 14 people had died in other attacks blamed on the extremist Taliban movement.
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Two operations in southern Afghanistan killed 18 suspected militants, including seven "foreigners," while six people died when a stash of ammunition exploded in the east, officials said Thursday.
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Dozens of militants were killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan overnight in clashes with U.S.-led foreign troops and Afghan forces, officials said on Saturday.