Rockets rain down on Kabul
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KABUL -- Just over 24 hours before Afghans were due to vote in their first ever presidential election, three rockets were launched from points around the Afghan capital Kabul.
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An explosion in the Afghan capital  Kabul was 200 to 300 meters (yards) outside the U.S. embassy  and there were no U.S. casualties, a U.S. official said late on  Thursday.
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was forced to cancel a trip to a provincial capital after a rocket hit near the landing site for his helicopter.
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At least 15 people have been killed in  explosions in an upscale district of the Afghan capital Kabul  and at a school in a southeastern province, officials said  Sunday.
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A vehicle packed with rockets exploded across the street from the Kabul police headquarters Saturday, killing five civilians and injuring at least 24 others.
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President Karzai cuts short a trip to south-eastern Afghanistan as a rocket strikes as he comes into land.
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Bigger rockets are raining down on coalition forces in southern Iraq, and U.S. officials point the finger at Tehran.
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A rocket slammed into the ground near where Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s helicopter was approaching to land in an eastern city Thursday, forcing him to return to Kabul, officials said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai aborted an election campaign trip to the southeast province of Gardez on Thursday after a rocket exploded just before he was due to land by helicopter.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Three men have been arrested  for trying to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai by firing a  rocket at his helicopter during his first election campaign  trip outside the capital, officials said on Friday.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai aborted his first election campaign trip outside the  capital on Thursday after a rocket shot over his helicopter as  he was landing in southeastern Gardez and exploded nearby.
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A rocket exploded in the air above the  U.S. military compound in Kabul on Friday, the eve of  Afghanistan's presidential poll, but there were no casualties,  a spokesman for the international peacekeeping force said.
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A helicopter carrying NATO-led military in Afghanistan went down late Wednesday, with seven soldiers &quot;known dead,&quot; the force said as the Taliban claimed to have shot down the chopper.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai escaped an assassination bid on Thursday when a rocket  was fired at his U.S. military helicopter as it was landing in  the southeastern town of Gardez.
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Fresh snow from heavy clouds fell on Kabul Saturday, complicating the task for search teams scouring the mountainous region for a passenger jet carrying 104 people, including about 21 foreigners, that disappeared from radar during a snowstorm two days ago.
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A rocket attack in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border has wounded at least five people and damaged several houses. Security officials in Bannu in the North West Frontier Province say two rockets
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Rockets rained on Afghan cities and military posts and a huge truck bomb was seized as the war-weary nation prepared for Saturday's historic presidential elections under the threat of further militant attacks.