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Afghan victims of a suicide attack are seen on stretchers at a hospital in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 6, 2012. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a market area in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing and wounding scores of people, authorities said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Suicide bombers kill 22 civilians at Afghan market

Last updated Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 9:41am

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, leaving 22 people dead in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies, authorities said.

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Afghans look at a damaged vehicle after it was hit by a road side bomb in Deh Bala district of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 30, 2012. Three district government employees were killed by a roadside bomb as they were traveling to work Wednesday morning in eastern Nangarhar province's Deh Bala district, said district chief Asrarullah. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Suicide car bomber kills 5 police in Afghanistan

Mirwais Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 31, 2012 - 9:22am

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives outside a district police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing five policemen, a government official said.

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Gunmen kill 2 guards in attack on Afghan governor

Mirwais Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 9:00am

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Two Taliban militants hiding handguns in their shoes slipped into a provincial governor's compound in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, setting off a fierce gunbattle that left two security guards and both attackers dead.

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Afghans paid $50,000 per shooting spree death

Heidi Vogt, Mirwais Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 8:29am

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in the shooting spree allegedly committed by a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday.

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Afghan security forces are seen after Taliban militants opened fire on delegation of senior Afghan officials in Panjwai, Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March. 13, 2012. Taliban militants opened fire Tuesday on a delegation of senior Afghan officials including two of President Hamid Karzai's brothers visiting villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Taliban fire on Afghan officials at attack site

Mirwais Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 9:24am

BALANDI, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants opened fire Tuesday on a delegation of senior Afghan officials -- including two of President Hamid Karzai's brothers -- visiting villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians.

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American serviceman opens fire on Afghans, 15 dead

Heidi Vogt, Mirwais Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 8:11am

BALANDI, Afghanistan — A U.S. service member walked out of a base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday and started shooting Afghan civilians, according to villagers and Afghan and NATO officials. Villagers showed an Associated Press photographer 15 bodies, including women and children, who they said were killed by the American.

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An Afghan border police man stands guard on a wall near the mayor's office in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. The mayor of Kandahar was assassinated on Wednesday by a suicide bomber who hid explosives in his turban, Afghan officials said. The Taliban say they sent the suicide bomber who killed the mayor of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Hamidi was the third major powerbroker from the south to be slain this month. (AP Photo/ Allauddin Khan)

Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor in Afghanistan

Deb Riechmann, Mirwais Khan The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 9:59am

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber hiding explosives in his turban assassinated the mayor of Kandahar on Wednesday, just two weeks after President Hamid Karzai's powerful half brother was slain in the southern province that is critical to the U.S.-led war effort.

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