A suicide car bomb exploded near a bank in Afghanistan on Saturday as police and soldiers queued for their wages, killing four including three children in the volatile south.

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A gun and suicide attack on an Afghan governor's compound killed 22 people on Sunday in the latest Taliban assault spotlighting the militants' power just outside the capital Kabul.

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A majority of the US soldiers who perished in the shooting down of an American chopper in Afghanistan were part of the elite forces that killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a media report said.

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A helicopter from the NATO-led foreign force in Afghanistan crashed during an anti-Taliban operation, an Afghan official said Saturday, adding there were foreign troop casualties.

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Ten policemen and a child were killed on Sunday when a suicide car bomber struck outside police headquarters in the southern city of Lashkar Gah, local officials said.

The attack came days after cont

Eleven members of an Afghan family were killed by a roadside bomb that struck their minibus in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, a local official said.

Thirty people were killed in a suicide car bombing Saturday targeting a hospital in Afghanistan's Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul, a provincial official said.

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A huge car bomb at a hospital on Saturday killed 60 in Afghanistan’s worst attack for three years, days after US President Barack Obama said 10,000 US forces would leave the country in 2011.

A bomb at an Afghan hospital on Saturday killed at least 20 people including women and children, days after US President Barack Obama said 10,000 US forces would leave the country this year.

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President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday that Afghanistan and the United States are engaged in peace talks with the Taliban, even as insurgents stormed a police station near the presidential palace, ki