Topic: The Taliban
Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the deadliest single loss for Warsaw's NATO contingent in the 10-year war."This is the most deadly attack in the history of Polish military missions abroad," Poland's ...
Twin suicide bombers on a motorcycle struck an Afghan market in the southern province of Nimroz on Monday, killing themselves but causing no other casualties, officials said.The interior ministry said the attackers with "suicide-loaded vests" blew up their motorcycle at around 8:50 ...
A police station in the Afghan capital came under militant attack Friday, with at least one explosion and several bursts of gunfire heard, officials said.A man lobbed grenades at the fifth district police station in west Kabul before fleeing but the situation ...
KABUL (Reuters) - An attack on a police station in the west of Kabul on Friday ended without casualties, police and the Interior Ministry said.An attacker threw a hand grenade at the station, ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on his official Twitter ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Several suicide bombers attacked a police station in the west of the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday, a police source said."At least four suicide bombers carried out an attack on a police station," the source said, adding that one ...
A suicide attacker blew himself up in western Afghanistan on Tuesday after police stopped him from gaining access to an airport, a provincial governor said.The suicide bomber was killed but there were no other casualties from the failed attack at the airport ...
Tarana dressed up for the holiday in a specially tailored bright green robe, a 12-year-old Afghan girl excited to set off with her family for a religious festival that a decade of war had so far spared.After a suicide bomber ripped apart ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Some 80 people died in Tuesday's bomb attacks on Shi'ite Muslim ceremonies in Afghanistan, far higher than the previously reported number, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday."The numbers I got this morning, it is 80 people who died," he ...
A bicycle bomb killed at least two people, including a member of Afghanistan's peace council, and left 16 wounded when it exploded in the north of the country Saturday, an official said.The remotely controlled bomb was detonated in Kunduz city and targeted ...
A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, assassinating a district police chief and killing at least five other people, a government official said.The attack happened as worshippers were leaving the mosque after the main Friday prayers in the ...
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