KHOST, Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2008 (Reuters) Suicide bombers killed at least four people when they attacked two government offices in the southeastern Afghan town of Khost on Thursday, a police officer said. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 30 people and wounded dozens more on Monday, hours after a roadside bomb wounded a senior Iraqi official, police said. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) Blasts at Baghdad's police academy and in the northern city of Mosul killed 29 people and wounded dozens more Monday, hours after a roadside bomb wounded a senior Iraqi official, police said. ... > full story
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide bomber killed eight civilians and two policemen in an attack on a police convoy in a crowded bazaar in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday, the local police chief said. ... > full story
MINGORA, Pakistan, Dec. 1, 2008 (Reuters) Seven people were killed on Monday in a suicide attack aimed at a military checkpost in northwest Pakistan's Swat Valley, military officials said. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide bomber killed 12 people in an Iraqi mosque on Friday while thousands of followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad after parliament passed a pact allowing U.S. troops to remain through 2011. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 28, 2008 (Reuters) Dozens of angry Afghans pelted police with stones after a convoy of foreign contractors rammed a minivan off a road and one civilian was killed and three more wounded in the Afghan capital on Friday, witnesses said. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide bomber killed four people near the U.S. embassy in Kabul Thursday, underscoring Afghanistan's deteriorating security, but a U.N. Security Council delegation said the situation was not out of control. ... > full story
KABUL, Nov. 27, 2008 (Reuters) A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of foreign troops near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Thursday, killing four civilians, the government said. ... > full story
BAGHDAD, Nov. 24, 2008 (Reuters) A bomb blast killed 13 female government employees on a bus on their way to work in eastern Baghdad on Monday, and a female suicide bomber killed five people outside Baghdad's Green Zone compound, police said. ... > full story
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