Reuters AlertNet - South Afghanistan suicide blast kills 10 - police
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... a provincial police chief said. uruzgan province police chief Juma Gul Himat said the bomber's vest exploded after he was fired on by troops while trying to attack a convoy of Afghan security forces. A media officer for NATO-led forces confirmed that 10 civilians had been reported killed in a suicide bomb strike in the area. ...
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Reuters AlertNet - FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Oct 18
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... southwest of Kabul, it said. uruzgan - Afghan and NATO-led troops killed a small group of militants and wounded several others during an operation aimed at detaining an insurgent leader in southern uruzgan, it said. HELMAND - Separately, the same joint force killed one militant and detained several others in the neighbouring Helmand province, it added. ...
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Reuters AlertNet - FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Oct 14
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... of the landing, it said. uruzgan - Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 30 Taliban insurgents in an operation in Chora district of southern uruzgan province since Tuesday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. The operation was still under way, the ministry said, without giving detail and possible casualties among the forces. GHAZNI - Afghan army and ...
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Reuters AlertNet - FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Sept 24
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... provincial governor Rohul Amin said. uruzgan - Afghan and foreign forces killed 15 Taliban insurgents in an operation in the Char Chino district of uruzgan province in the south of the country on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said. The Taliban could not be reached for comment. HELMAND - Several insurgents were killed during an operation conducted ...
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Reuters AlertNet - Afghanistan's hidden drug problem
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... a man from the central uruzgan province tells us. He fled to Iran with his family after fighting broke out in his hometown and started to use opium and later heroin while there. "This is also a school for us", he says. "We learned about HIV and hepatitis, and safer injection methods. And I only use ...
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