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Devastating series of attacks across Iraq kill 53 (AP)

August 25th, 2010

An Iraqi girl wears bandages after being injured in a bombing in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000.(AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)AP - Bombers killed 53 Iraqis in nearly two dozen attacks spanning the country Wednesday, mostly targeting security forces in seemingly coordinated strikes the day after the number of U.S.…

3 bombs kill 36 in northwest Pakistan (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

AP - Three bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan — two in tribal regions near the Afghan border and a third near the region’s main city of Peshawar — killed at…

NATO: Bombs kill 2 foreign troops in Afghanistan (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

An Army carry team, holding the remains of Army Specialist Christopher S. Wright, of Tollesboro, Ky., carry the transfer case off the aircraft after its arrival Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Wright died in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Roadside bombs killed two members of the international security force in Afghanistan on Monday, including one American, NATO reported.


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Officials: US drones kill 6 in northwest Pakistan (AP)

August 21st, 2010

A Pakistani woman weeps as she stands with others crowding around a Pakistan Army helicopter after it arrived to deliver food aid for the United Nations World Food Program in  the flood encircled village of Tul in , Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles fired from an unmanned drone killed six militants Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.


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Rebels kill 3 Indian peacekeepers in Congo (AP)

August 18th, 2010

AP - Dozens of rebels attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base under darkness in eastern Congo early Wednesday, killing three Indian soldiers and wounding seven other peacekeepers, an Indian army official…

Officials: Alleged US missiles kill 12 in Pakistan (AP)

August 14th, 2010

People celebrate Pakistan's Independence Day in Lahore, Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. This years ceremonies have been scaled down in response to the flooding that has affected an estimated 20 million citizens. (AP Photo/Hamza Ahmed)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles killed 12 people Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region filled with Islamist insurgents bent on pushing Western troops out of neighboring Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.


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Gunmen kill 5 in Baghdad checkpoint shootings (AP)

August 14th, 2010

In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, US Army soldiers from 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, prepare to board a military aircraft in Baghdad, Iraq, as they begin their journey home. These soldiers are part of the last brigade of combat troops which are now leaving Iraq,  heading home as part of the U.S. drawdown of forces.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Gunmen killed five Iraqi security personnel Saturday, including a pair of sleeping policemen who were shot and set on fire, amid persistent debate over whether Iraqi forces can…

Gunmen kill 5 in Baghdad checkpoint shooting spree (AP)

August 14th, 2010

Security personnel gather at the site of a bomb attack in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, August 13, 2010. 18 people were wounded, including three policemen, when three bombs, targeting the house of a government Sunni militia leader and the houses of two police officers, exploded in central Samarra, police said.  REUTERS/Sabah al-Bazee (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST)AP - Authorities say gunmen have killed five Iraqi security officials in a half-hour shooting spree targeting checkpoints in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods around Baghdad.


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Huge protest after police kill 4 in Indian Kashmir (AP)

August 13th, 2010

A masked Kashmiri protester holds a brick before throwing it at Indian paramilitary soldiers during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Government forces fired at hundreds of anti-India protesters for defying a curfew in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Friday, killing a teenage student and injuring a few others, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)AP - Tens of thousands of Kashmiris staged angry street demonstrations Friday after government forces killed four people and injured 31 others during the latest unrest against Indian rule in…

Suicide bombers kill 2 security workers in Kabul (AP)

August 10th, 2010

Relatives and friends carry coffin of Jawed, 27, one of the two Afghans killed by gunmen in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, from a morgue in a military hospital in Kabul. The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of six Americans citizens who were among eight foreigners gunned down in northeastern Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban, a US official said Monday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AP - Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said.


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