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Roadside bomb in Baghdad kills local politician (AP)

October 18th, 2010

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, reviews an honor guard, as he is accompanied by Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, during an official welcoming ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. Al-Maliki is visiting Iran to cement ties with the Shiite powerhouse ally as he struggles to secure a second term in office. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - A spokesman for Baghdad’s Provincial Council says a roadside bomb has hit a convoy carrying a local government member, killing him and wounding eight people.


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Roadside bomb kills 9 Iraqi soldiers near Mosul (AP)

September 15th, 2010

U.S. Army soldiers secure the scene of a roadside bomb attack in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Iraqi officials say a roadside bomb has struck a bus carrying Iraqi soldiers, killing nine and injuring five more near the northern city of Mosul.


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NATO: Roadside bomb kills 3 Afghan civilians (AP)

August 11th, 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 - A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed three Afghan civilians, NATO forces said Wednesday.


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6 Afghans killed when minibus hits roadside bomb (AP)

August 1st, 2010

FILE - In this July 28, 2010 file photo, an Afghan policewoman drinks tea with local villagers in Samir Kalacha during military operations by U.S. Army soldiers from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division and Afghan National Army in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)AP - A minibus full of civilians struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, killing six on board, officials said.


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Bus hits roadside bomb, killing 25 in Afghanistan (AP)

July 28th, 2010

US soldiers from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, run to firing positions after coming under attack by Taliban insurgents at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A packed bus hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday killing 25 people aboard, as NATO announced another U.S. service member died in a rapidly rising…

3 US troops killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan (AP)

July 7th, 2010

A US soldier keeps watch in Kandahar City in June, 2010. NATO Wednesday added three deaths to the toll of foreign soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, all of them killed by crude bombs favoured by the insurgents.(AFP/File/Ed Jones)AP - The international force in Afghanistan says three American troops have been killed by a roadside bomb in the violence-wracked south.


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US: 5 US troops die in eastern Afghan blast (AP)

June 7th, 2010

Canadian soldiers with 1st RCR Battle Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, get ready to reinforce troops after one of their comrades got injured by an IED blast during a patrol outside Salavat, in the Panjwayi district, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, June 7, 2010. IEDs have been the single biggest cause of death among Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Seven out of nine Canadian deaths this year were the result of IED blasts. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - The U.S. command says five American soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan.


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AP tally: 1,000th US military death in Afghanistan (AP)

May 28th, 2010

Widow Shada Parada Rodriguez, right, and mother Lusia Parada Rodriguez, second from right, of Marine Cpl. Nicholas Parada Rodriguez, of Stafford, Va., watch the coffins containing the remains of Cpl. Parada Rodriguez during a burial ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 27, 2010. Cpl. Parada Rodriguez, 29, of Stafford, Va., died May 16, 2010, while supporting combat operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The U.S. military suffered its 1,000th death of the Afghan war Friday, according to an Associated Press count, when NATO reported a service member was killed by a…

5 Afghan deminers killed in roadside bombing (AP)

April 11th, 2010

Gulab Mangul, the governor of Helmand, right, addresses the media during a press conference in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 10, 2010. Two Italian doctors are among nine people detained in an alleged plot to kill an Afghan provincial governor, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)AP - A bus carrying Afghans working for a U.S.-supported demining group was struck by a roadside bomb in Kandahar province Sunday, killing five workers and wounding 13 others.


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