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No UN staff harmed in Afghanistan suicide attack (AP)

October 23rd, 2010

Italian soldiers on guard in Herat city in 2009. Three suicide bombers wearing police uniforms and burqas on Saturday attacked the United Nations office in the western Afghan city of Herat, senior police and UN officials said.(AFP/File/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - A United Nations official says no U.N. staff members were harmed in a suicide attack on a United Nations compound in Afghanistan’s western Herat province.


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Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people (AP)

September 6th, 2010

Map of Pakistan locating the site of the suicide attack on Monday. At least 17 people were killed and 45 wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, destroying the building, police said.(AFP/Graphic/Afp Graphics)AP - A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17…

Police say suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 (AP)

September 6th, 2010

In this photo taken on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010, Truls Brekke, a spokesman for the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, shows dead crops as floodwaters slowly recede at Shah Jamal village, in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan. The flooding that swamped as much as one-fifth of the country destroyed 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres) of maize, rice, sugar cane and cotton crops and killed 1.2 million livestock and 6 million poultry, according to preliminary estimates by the U.N. and the government. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - A suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically vital town in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police…

5 killed in suicide attack on Russian base (AP)

September 5th, 2010

AP - A suicide car-bomber killed five soldiers and wounded 40 others in an attack on a military base in Russia’s violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.

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Death toll rises to 65 in attack on Pakistanis (AP)

September 4th, 2010

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF QUT111** People who were injured by an explosion lie down on road during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Police say a blast at a Shiite procession has killed a score of people in southwestern Pakistan in the third deadly attack this week on the country's religious minorities.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - The death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospitals, police…

10 NATO troopers killed on deadly Afghan day (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 - Ten NATO service members, seven of them American, were killed in separate attacks Monday on the deadliest day of the year for foreign forces in Afghanistan. A U.S.…

10 policemen wounded in suicide attack in Pakistan (AP)

April 24th, 2010

Pakistani cricket player Shoaib Malik and his wife, Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, leave the Indian High commission after meeting the Indian ambassador in Islamabad April 23, 2010. Malik married Mirza last week in India. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN - Tags: SPORT CRICKET TENNIS)AP - Police say a suicide attack on a prison van wounded at least 10 policemen in northwest Pakistan.


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Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO-Afghan base (AP)

March 10th, 2010

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, second left, tours through the town of Now Zad, Afghanistan, on Tuesday March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim WATSON, Pool)AP - The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members.


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