UN buildings attacked in west Afghanistan after governor dismissed
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HERAT, Afghanistan : Two United Nations buildings in the western Afghan city of Herat were attacked by demonstrators protesting the dismissal of governor Ismael Khan, UN and police officials told AFP.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government has fired the governor of its biggest drug-producing province, a center of Taliban resistance that has seen some of the country's heaviest fighting this year, officials said yesterday.
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UN Secretary-General condemned on Sunday the attacks in a western Afghanistan province which may jeopardize the already worrisome security in the war-torn country before its scheduled general elections next month.
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KABUL: The new governor of Afghanistanâs riot-hit western province of Herat has told the news agency that he hopes aid agency staff, who pulled out of the provincial capital after violent attacks, will return soon.
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Around 300 Taliban insurgents captured a remote district in western Afghanistan after storming its small capital and forcing out government forces, a provincial governor said.
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The governor of a troubled Afghanistan province spoke out last week about the governmentâs failure to control the Taliban. This week, heâs out of a job.
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A bombing Monday targeted the funeral of an Afghan provincial governor who was assassinated a day earlier by a suicide bomber, the Afghan Interior Ministry told CNN.
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Powerful regional Afghan commander Ismail Khan was effectively dismissed as governor of Herat city Saturday and declined a promotion to the cabinet of President Hamid Karzai.
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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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A curfew has been declared in the western Afghan city of Herat after at least seven people were killed in violent protests against the dismissal of the influential provincial governor, Ismail Khan.
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The governor of Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province resigns, amid continuing violence.
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A diplomatic row erupted on Wednesday between Afghanistan and key aid partners after Kabul ordered the expulsion of a Briton and Irishman working for the EU and the UN, accusing them of threatening state security.
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13 September 2004 -- Aid workers were leaving Afghanistan&#39;s western city of Herat today after bloody clashes in recent days sparked by the dismissal of a powerful local governor.
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A Taliban attack on a police post in western Afghanistan sparked a battle that left at least 20 militants and four police dead, a provincial governor said.
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Two people were killed in clashes on  Saturday between U.S. and Afghan forces and stone-throwing  protesters angered by President Hamid Karzai effectively axing  a regional governor, hospital officials and witnesses said.
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The Afghan government on Saturday announced the removal of the powerful governor of Herat, in western Afghanistan, one of the country&#39;s longest standing warlords.
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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.