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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 bombs kill 11, including 2 NATO troops (AP)

October 11th, 2010

Air Force pararescueman SSgt Mark Bedell of the 46th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron looks out of the open door of a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter as they fly low over a village in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Saturday Oct. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - Roadside bombs killed eleven people including two NATO troops in Afghanistan, and a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a military convoy, killing a child and wounding…

Roadside bombs kill 7, including 2 NATO troops (AP)

October 10th, 2010

Air Force pararescuemen of the 46th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron look out of the open door of a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter as they fly in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Saturday Oct. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - Roadside bombs killed seven people including two NATO troops in war-torn Afghanistan Sunday, as a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a military convoy, killing a child…

Roadside bomb kills 10 aboard minibus in Turkey (AP)

September 16th, 2010

AP - A roadside bomb attack killed 10 people traveling on a minibus Thursday in the latest violence to shake Turkey’s turbulent southeast, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for…

Roadside bomb kills 9 aboard minibus in Turkey (AP)

September 16th, 2010

AP - A roadside bomb attack killed nine people traveling aboard a minibus Thursday in the latest violence to shake Turkey’s turbulent southeast, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for…

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…

Roadside bombs kill 5 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP)

July 17th, 2010

An unidentified woman waits in line for a  flight to Kandahar Airfield from Wilson Forward Operating Base,  Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Roadside bombs killed five NATO troops in Afghanistan, the international force said Saturday, adding to a violent summer as coalition forces step up patrols in the Taliban-dominated south.


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