A suicide bomber struck a United Nations convoy today in southern Afghanistan, killing two Afghan doctors on their way to provide polio vaccinations to children, together with their driver.
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In a stark demonstration of insurgents’ growing strength on the doorstep of the capital, assailants Saturday assassinated the governor of neighboring Lowgar province.
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President Hamid Karzai paid a condolence visit today to a remote western region that was the scene of a controversial American-led raid last month, pleading for forgiveness and assuring villagers that those responsible for civilian deaths would be punished.
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At a time of rising public outrage over civilian casualties, Western troops killed three Afghan children and wounded seven other noncombatants in an errant artillery strike today, military officials said.
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After a week of tense public disagreement over the civilian casualty toll in a
U.S.-led raid in western Afghanistan, officials from the United Nations, the Afghan government and the
NATO-led force in the country said today that all sides had agreed to a joint investigation.
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The bullet-ridden body of an abducted Japanese aid worker was recovered today, the latest grim symbol of insurgents’ determination to make it difficult for outside humanitarian groups to operate in Afghanistan.
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President Hamid Karzai on Saturday denounced an airstrike by
U.S.-led forces that his government said killed 76 Afghan civilians.
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In the worst single-incident loss of life in at least three years for Western troops in Afghanistan, insurgents ambushed and killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 others in a sustained assault a short distance from the capital, military officials said today.
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Gunmen riddled a humanitarian group’s vehicle with bullets today, killing three foreign women aid workers including an American, together with their Afghan driver, officials said.
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Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, met Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday and told him Afghanistan is central to the fight against terrorism, aides to the Afghan leader said.
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