Suicide bomber kills Afghan provincial governor
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A suicide bomber assassinated an Afghan   provincial governor on Sunday, as NATO said it killed almost   100 more Taliban fighters in its biggest offensive against the   resurgent Islamist group.
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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 blew himself up at a governor's house in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people, in the latest bloodshed linked to a spiralling Taliban insurgency.
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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.
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A suicide bomber attacked a restaurant in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, leaving seven Afghans dead and 20 injured, the provincial governor said.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killing a deputy provincial governor and at least five other people, officials said.
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At least four police and two civilians have been killed in a suicide attack at the governor's house in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral of an assassinated Afghan politician, killing six people, as NATO said the Taliban death toll in a key offensive had passed 500.
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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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A suicide bomber struck Monday in eastern Afghanistan at the funeral of a provincial governor who died in a suicide blast the previous day, police and witnesses said. At least five people were killed, but four Cabinet ministers who were attending the funeral escaped unharmed, police said.
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A suicide bomb attack inside the governor's office in Helmand province in south Afghanistan kills six people.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber killed one policeman and two civilians in an attack on an Afghan convoy in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Monday, a Reuters witness said.
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A suicide bomber killed a provincial governor along with his bodyguard and his nephew Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, and the U.S. military warned that a suicide bombing cell is targeting foreign troops in Kabul.
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Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police checkpoint on Tuesday in an escalating campaign to wreck the Jan. 30 election.
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A suicide blast tore through a crowd of men watching dog fighting in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday, killing 80 people and wounding dozens more, a provincial governor 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 detonates a car bomb near the governor's residence in Kabul, killing five people.