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Afghan body invalidates all Kabul votes in October parliamentary election
Dec 06, 2018 14:40Afghanistan’s Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) has declared that all votes cast in Kabul Province during the country’s October parliamentary election are invalid.
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Top Taliban commander killed in airstrike in southern Afghanistan
Dec 03, 2018 05:12A senior Taliban commander and dozens of his comrades have been killed during a joint operation by Afghan and US Special Forces in southern Afghanistan, officials and Taliban members say.
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US warplanes dropped more bombs in Afghanistan in 2018 than any other year
Dec 02, 2018 05:22US warplanes have dropped more munitions in Afghanistan during the first 10 months of this year than during any other full calendar year since the American Air Force began documenting monthly bomb usage in the war-torn nation back in 2006.
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US airstrike in Helmand killed 23 civilians, UN says
Nov 30, 2018 11:28At least 23 civilians, most of them women and children, have been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, the UN says.
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Australia police now probing army for war crimes in Afghanistan
Nov 29, 2018 04:10Australian police have launched an investigation into possible war crimes by members of the Australian army in war-torn Afghanistan.
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Iranian police seize over 12 tons of illicit drugs in a week
Nov 29, 2018 03:28Iran’s anti-narcotics police forces have managed to capture more than 12,000 kilograms of various kinds of illicit drugs across the country over the past week, the deputy commander of anti-drug headquarters announced on Wednesday.
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10 killed in attack on British security company in Kabul
Nov 29, 2018 03:14At least 10 people have been killed and nearly 20 others wounded in a bomb attack on a British security company's compound in the Afghan capital Kabul.
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Iran calls on world to engage Taliban in ‘inclusive’ dialogue with Afghan govt.
Nov 29, 2018 02:35Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called on the international community to engage the Taliban in an "inclusive" dialogue with the Afghan government in a bid to restore peace to the war-torn nation.
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US airstrikes kill 30 civilians in Afghanistan's Helmand
Nov 28, 2018 16:52Airstrikes conducted by the US military has killed at least 30 civilians, including children and women, in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand amid a spike in civilian deaths from aerial attacks.
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At least 3 US troops killed in bomb attack in central Afghanistan
Nov 27, 2018 11:53At least three US servicemen have been killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device went off in central Afghanistan, the NATO mission in the war-torn country says.