Western Afghan city quiet after bloody clashes
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HERAT, Afghanistan: The western Afghan city of Herat has returned to calm following bloody riots over the sacking of the local governor which left at least four people dead and 50 injured.
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US and Iraqi forces took control of the central Iraqi city of Samarra yesterday but engaged in sporadic clashes with insurgents who had dispersed
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in separate clashes in a southern Afghan province where hundreds of militants have gathered, a police official said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops battled insurgents Tuesday in a major city west of Baghdad after the U.S...
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KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 18, 2004  A cease-fire between warring militias in western Afghanistan held on Wednesday, officials said, easing a conflict that has sounded alarm bells from Kabul to the United Nations about the need to improve security ahead ...
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NATO and U.S. airstrikes have killed scores of Afghan civilians this week, residents and officials said on Saturday, deaths likely to deepen discontent with foreign forces and the Western-backed Afghan government.
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Afghan and foreign forces have recaptured   a district headquarters taken by rebels last week, killing   about 20 Taliban fighters.
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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 capital of an Afghanistan&#39;s western province was engulfed in tension as demonstrators loyal toformer governor of Herat province looted and burned local army barracks and UN
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Violence continues across western part of the country as rival ethnic groups face off
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An unusual quiet continued Friday for the second straight day in Iraq, with American forces and insurgents apparently taking a pause after months of heavy combat.
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Weekend violence in the western city of Herat is a reminder of how volatile the situation in Afghanistan remains, three years after the US overthrew the Taliban and less than four weeks before presidential elections there.
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Palestinian leaders appealed for calm, and the clashes were not as intense or as widespread as on Sunday.
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KABUL - US-led coalition soldiers and Afghan forces killed about 50 militants in two days of major fighting near a Taliban-controlled town, officials said yesterday. Taliban forces fired rocket-propelled grenades and small arms at a combined coalition-Afghan patrol near the town of Musa Qala in Helmand Province, sparking a battle that lasted several hours.
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Afghanistan's historic presidential  election closed on Saturday without any of the feared  large-scale violence, but the vote was thrown into turmoil when  most candidates said a flawed process made the poll invalid.
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Afghanistan's historic presidential  election closed on Saturday without any of the feared  large-scale violence but the vote was thrown into turmoil  instead by a boycott called by most of the candidates.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.