Convoy of Karzai's Running Mate Is Attacked
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A convoy carrying Afghan President Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running-mate came under attack Wednesday in northeastern Afghanistan, the presidential palace and other officials said, the third attack on Karzai's supporters ahead of landmark weekend elections.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate escaped an assassination attempt Wednesday while campaigning in northern Afghanistan.
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Protesters angered at President Hamid Karzai's sacking of a warlord governor in the west of the country ransacked U.N. compounds and clashed with security forces Sunday, leaving as many as three people dead and dozens wounded, including three U.S. troops who were hit with stones.
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The Afghan government and Western officials are seeking to capitalize on a recent attack against the entrenched governor of the western province of Herat by removing
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running  mate for Saturday's historic presidential election escaped  unhurt Wednesday when a mine exploded under his convoy in the  remote northeast of the country.  Vice presidential candidate Ahmad Zia Masood, the brother of  assassinated resistance hero Ahmad Shah Masood, had gone to  Faizabad, the capital of mountainous Badakhshan province, for a  campaign rally.
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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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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running mate survived an assassination attempt when a bomb killed two people in a convoy carrying him to an election rally, a government official said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb exploded yesterday afternoon under a convoy carrying one of President Hamid Karzai's two running mates in the upcoming presidential election. The attack, in remote Badakshan Province, killed one man and injured five others, including a former Badakshan governor.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The chief rival of interim President Hamid Karzai said he has evidence of organized fraud in Afghanistan's election and accused the U.N.-Afghan electoral commission on Monday of ignoring his complaints.    In the second deadly incident surrounding the election, five people - including at least one election worker - were killed by an explosion as they drove near the Pakistan border, the joint U.N.-Afghan electoral commission said...
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The two main rivals in Afghanistan&#39;s first presidential election threw themselves into campaigning Tuesday, drawing crowds of supporters four days before a vote that
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai's running  mate for a historic presidential election narrowly escaped a  bomb set off by Taliban guerrillas as the campaign closed on  Wednesday.
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in the Afghan presidential election narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Taliban yesterday in the latest bid to derail Saturday&#39;s poll.
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A convoy carrying the Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi was ambushed yesterday by gunmen in an apparent assassination attempt that left two of his bodyguards wounded.
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Seven supporters of an ousted Afghan governor were killed and 20 were wounded on Sunday in clashes with police and US troops after crowds torched UN offices, medics and witnesses said.
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Two people have been killed in a bomb attack on an Afghanistan election rally held by President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate in the country&#39;s north.
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An Ethiopian military convoy in Somalia is ambushed by Islamist fighters who claim 20 were killed, witnesses say.
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The home of prime minister and the office of the president were attacked today as factional fighting intensified.