Afghan Governor Killed in Suicide Attack
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Muhammad Hakim Taniwal of Paktia Province was the first governor to be killed since the Taliban began a campaign of suicide bombings last year.
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A suicide bomber killed six police and an Indian engineer on Thursday in southeastern Afghanistan, a provincial official said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at the governor's compound in southern Helmand province on Tuesday, killing eight people, including two civilians, officials said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing more than 35 people, a senior police official said.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber killed one policeman and two civilians in an attack on an Afghan police convoy in the southern province of Helmand on Monday, a Reuters witness said.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman killed five Afghan police and wounded 11 more as he sat with them on Thursday at a checkpoint in the southeastern town of Spin Boldak, a border police chief said.
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A respected provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan was killed along with his nephew and chief bodyguard when a suicide attacker blew himself up as the men left the governor's office.
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At least seven supporters of the ousted governor of Herat in western Afghanistan (news - web sites) were killed Sunday and 20 wounded in clashes with US troops
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The governor of Uruzgan province, Jan Mohammed Khan, says Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar was among three Taleban fighters killed during a raid in Char Cheno district late Saturday.
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A suicide blast killed at least eight people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on Islamists backed by al Qaeda.
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An explosion disrupts the funeral of an Afghan provincial governor killed by a suicide attacker on Sunday.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan -- A Taliban suicide bomber killed 18 people outside a provincial governor's compound yesterday, including several Muslim pilgrims set to travel to Mecca, in another attack directed at senior figures in President Hamid Karzai's US-backed government.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber in police uniform killed 10 Afghan policemen and wounded 10 others as he sat with them on Thursday at a checkpoint near the southeastern town of Spin Boldak, a local police chief said.
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Unidentified gunmen kill a top women's affairs official in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, police say.
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Up to seven supporters of an ousted Afghan governor were killed and 20 wounded on Sunday in clashes with police and U.S. troops in the western city of Herat, which was placed under night curfew.
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A senior health official working to eradicate polio in north-west Pakistan is killed in a bomb attack.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber   killed 18 people outside the governor's office in a southern   Afghan town on Tuesday while an Italian soldier died in a blast   near Kabul, officials said.