Afghan workers killed in ambush
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Nineteen workers are killed as their bus is hit by a bomb and then attacked by militants in southern Afghanistan.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Taliban militants killed 15 Afghan guards working for a private U.S. security firm in an ambush in the west of the country on Tuesday, the provincial governor said.
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Around 80 Taliban fighters were killed when they tried to ambush a patrol of Afghan and international soldiers in the south of Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said Sunday.
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The body of a kidnapped Turkish construction engineer was found in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. Ayub was shot dead less than 24 hours after being abducted by a militant gang on Tuesday on the road between Jalalabad and Kunar province.
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Nepali Maoist guerrillas killed at least eight soldiers and four policemen in an ambush on Saturday, the army said.
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At least nine Afghan police officers and a civilian were killed in a firefight with American forces who mistook them for Taliban insurgents just south of Kabul early Thursday.
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An Afghan vice president survived an assassination attempt Monday when a remotely controlled device was detonated near his convoy, while two soldiers from the US-led coalition were killed in a separate gunbattle.
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Two Germans taken hostage near Kabul this week have been killed, a spokesman for the Taleban says.
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Taliban militants killed five people in an ambush Sunday while U.S.-led coalition troops moved deeper into Afghanistan&#039;s southern mountains in an offensive that has killed about 90 insurgents in less than a week, officials said.
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Seven Afghan police officers are killed by US forces in an apparent "friendly fire" incident, Afghan officials say.
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Gunmen ambushed two German journalists traveling in northern Afghanistan on Saturday killing them both, Afghan officials said.
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A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers after a police rescue operation ended in tragedy, interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told AFP.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - An explosion tore through the office of an American security contractor in the heart of the Afghan capital Sunday, killing seven people, including two Americans, officials and witnesses said.    The explosion hit the office of Dyncorp Inc., a U.S...
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Unknown gunmen abducted two international and two Afghan employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross near Kabul, Afghan officials said Thursday.
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FOUR policemen and a miliant were killed when insurgents attacked a security checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, the police have said.
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The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan - a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road project - ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldn&#39;t slow them down with police hot on their trail.
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Taliban fighters killed 15 Afghan guards working for a U.S. security company who were guarding a convoy of fuel tankers in western Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday. Six Taliban were killed in the ensuing fight.