KABUL, Feb 12 (KUNA) — One soldier of the NATO alliance was killed and another wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in western Afghanistan on Tuesday. Separately, officials say armed men kidnapped about a dozen Pakistani workers in the same western region of the troubled country. A NATO spokesperson said the soldier was killed [...]

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KABUL, Feb 4 (KUNA) — A senior Taliban commander escaped an airstrike that killed 10 people, including a woman, by foreign troops in western Afghanistan, police said on Monday.
Separately, the Afghan police claimed they had killed nine Taliban militants in Deh Rawod district of the southern Uruzgan province of the country Sunday night.
The airstrike was [...]

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KABUL, Dec 18 (KUNA) — At least 15 Afghan security guards of a private security company have been killed in an attack by Taliban militants in western Afghanistan, police said on Tuesday. The ambush, carried out in the restive Bala Balook district of the western Farah province, left another eight guards of the US Protection [...]

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FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Nov. 9, 2007 - Construction is under way for a $1.7 million bridge across the Farah Rud River in Tojg. The project, funded by the Farah Provincial Reconstruction Team, will employ several hundred local people for two years. The project will benefit not only the 10,000 residents of Tojg, but also people [...]

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Afghan forces battled hundreds of Taliban fighters for a fifth day in the west of the country on Friday for control of two districts, and the chief of a third fretted his region might soon fall.
The hardline Islamist Taliban relaunched their insurgency two years ago to topple the pro-Western Afghan government and eject the 50,000 [...]

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Afghan and foreign forces killed more than 20 Taliban insurgents and wounded 20 in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, an Afghan provincial official said.
Afghan troops and their Western allies are engaged in daily battles with Taliban rebels who have revived their insurgency in the last two years, but have largely switched tactics to suicide and roadside [...]

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