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Taliban attack international compound in Kabul
Source: Reuters Taliban militants have launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, sparking a five-hour battle with security forces. A plume of smoke hung over Kabul after the attack was launched, with the sound of .50 calibre heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and sniper fire clearly audible throughout the city centre as ...
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Afghanistan capital hit by deadly huge bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan A Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked an international aid group's guest house in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long battle with security forces in an upscale Kabul neighborhood, authorities said. The International Organization for Migration said four of its workers were wounded, including an ...
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Taliban Militants Attack Heart of Afghan Capital
Taliban militants have attacked the heart of the Afghan capital, setting off explosions and battling security forces. At least four blasts shook a busy area of Kabul Friday, in the second major attack in the city in a little more than a week. Shooting erupted in the area as militants and security forces engaged in a fierce gunbattle. Afghan officials say two of the attackers were killed. ...
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Taleban attack central Kabul
In the latest militant strike on the Afghan capital, Taleban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber attacked an international aid group's compound, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long street battle with police in the heart of Kabul. The attack, the second in the city this week, also left four International Organization for Migration workers wounded including an Italian woman badly ...
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Taliban claims credit for Kabul bombing
Afghan men and children look on at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on May 16, 2013. The Afghan capital was hit by another suicide bombing on May 24, 2013, with the Taliban claiming responsibility. (AFP/AFP/Getty ...
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North African jihadists widen their war
The jihadist alliance in North Africa has widened its war with attacks in Niger demonstrating the militants are able to causing mayhem across the ...
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Taliban Storm CIA Office in Kabul
The attack began with a suicide car bombing at the gate of a police directorate, which is adjacent to the UN office, Hashmat Stanikzai, a police spokesman said. He said insuregnts, including suicide bombers, then stormed the UN office. At least four Nepalese guards at the UN office were injured, three of them in critical condition, an officer with the IDG company that provides ...
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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