5 Iraqis killed by car bomb north of Baghdad

TIKRIT, Iraq, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed and ten wounded in a car bomb explosion in a town in Salahudin province north of Baghdad on Wednesday, a provincial police source told Xinhua.The booby-trapped car went off when a team of police explosive experts were defusing a roadside bomb nearby in the town of al- Duluiyah, some 90 km north of Baghdad, the source...

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Five dead in suicide bomb blast at Mogadishu theater

update: photos: http://www.calanka.com/warka/article2749.htm MOGADISHU, April 4 (Xinhua) -- At least five people including two sports officials are confirmed dead and 10 others were wounded Wednesday after a female suicide bomber detonated her explosives at a ceremony at the national theater in the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said. Top Somali government...

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Maiwand Zone security chief shot dead in Kandahar

According to local authorities in southern Kandahar province, armed militants shot dead security control chief for 404 Maiwand police commandment in this province. The officials further added, the incident took place around 12:00 pm local time. In the meantime Provincial governor spokesman Jawid Faisal confirming the incident said, unknown militants shot dead a police officer...

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Apr.04., 2012. - ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update

KABUL, Afghanistan (Apr. 4) — An Afghan and coalition security force captured a Haqqani facilitator during an operation in Pul-e 'Alam district, Wardak province, today. The facilitator coordinated the emplacement of roadside bombs for attacks against Afghan and coalition security forces throughout the district. The security force detained an additional suspected...

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R.I.P. - Corporal Douglas Hughes

Friends and family of a New Zealand soldier who died in Afghanistan say he was a popular man who was fiercely proud of where he lived and where he went to school.26-year-old Corporal Douglas Hughes, known as "Dougie", died at 1.45pm yesterday after being flown to Bagram Air Base hospital.An investigation is under way into the non-combat death, which is believed to be a suspected...

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Deaths in northern Afghanistan suicide blast

updates at the bottom A suicide attack on a NATO foot patrol has left 15 people dead in northern Afghanistan, according to local officials. The attacker in Wednesday's late morning bombing targeted a foot patrol of Norwegian and US troops walking through a fruit market in Maymana, the capital of northwestern Faryab province. "A suicide bomber targeted a group of foreign...

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Local policeman kills commander in Kunduz

KUNDUZ (PAN): A local policeman shot dead his commander and his bodyguard at a checkpoint in northern Kunduz Province, an official said on Wednesday. “The shooting took place late Tuesday night in the Mirshikh area, on the outskirts of Chahardara District,” Abdul Momen Omarkhel, district administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said the victim, Ahmad Zia...

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Combined operations kill 8, capture 9 in eastern Afghanistan

BAGRAM, Afghanistan – Afghan and coalition forces killed five insurgents and captured nine in eastern Afghanistan during operations throughout the past 24 hours, April 3. Afghan National Army soldiers and coalition forces killed eight insurgents and wounded nine others after responding to small-arms fire in Tagab district, Kapisa province. The wounded were taken to nearby...

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