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3 Spanish Tourists Among 6 Killed In Afghanistan Shooting
The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while visiting a market in Afghanistan were transported to the capital along with multiple wounded, the Taliban government said Saturday.
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4 Killed In Shooting In Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province
Three foreigners and an Afghan were killed on Friday in a shooting in Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan, the interior ministry said.
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Wife of accused soldier kept blog on anguish of Army life
She detailed her pregnancy, with her husband a world away. She described the knot she got in her stomach from missing him. She wrote of her disappointment after he was passed over for a promotion. But mostly, Karilyn Bales - the wife of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers last week - relayed the simple anguis...
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Suspect in Afghan shootings flown to base in US
The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers was en route on Friday to a maximum security detention facility at a US military base in Kansas, his lawyer said.
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Taliban says it's suspending talks with US
The Taliban militant group says it is suspending talks with the United States. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that the United States kept changing the terms of the negotiations. Mujahid says that the Taliban only wanted to discuss prisoner transfers and the establishment of a political office in Qatar, but US ne...
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Video shows soldier surrendering after killing spree, says Afghan official
The US soldier who allegedly shot 16 Afghan villagers was caught on surveillance video that showed him walking up to his base and raising his arms in surrender, according to an Afghan official who viewed the footage. The official said late on Tuesday that US authorities showed Afghan authorities the surveillance video to prove that only one perpetr...
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Afghan delegation attacked by militants at site of US killings
Taliban militants opened fire on Tuesday on an Afghan government delegation visiting one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. The gunfire killed an Afghan soldier who was providing security for the delegation, said Gen. Abdul Razaq, the police chief for Kandahar province where the visi...
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Afghan man recounts US soldier's shooting spree
An Afghan man recounted on Monday the harrowing tale of how an American soldier on a killing spree burst into his home in the middle of the night, searched the rooms, then dropped to a knee and shot his father in the thigh as he emerged from a bedroom. The staff sergeant is now in custody, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, most of them childr...
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3 Spanish Tourists Among 6 Killed In Afghanistan Shooting
The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while visiting a market in Afghanistan were transported to the capital along with multiple wounded, the Taliban government said Saturday.
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4 Killed In Shooting In Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province
Three foreigners and an Afghan were killed on Friday in a shooting in Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan, the interior ministry said.
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Wife of accused soldier kept blog on anguish of Army life
She detailed her pregnancy, with her husband a world away. She described the knot she got in her stomach from missing him. She wrote of her disappointment after he was passed over for a promotion. But mostly, Karilyn Bales - the wife of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers last week - relayed the simple anguis...
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Suspect in Afghan shootings flown to base in US
The American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers was en route on Friday to a maximum security detention facility at a US military base in Kansas, his lawyer said.
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Taliban says it's suspending talks with US
The Taliban militant group says it is suspending talks with the United States. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that the United States kept changing the terms of the negotiations. Mujahid says that the Taliban only wanted to discuss prisoner transfers and the establishment of a political office in Qatar, but US ne...
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Video shows soldier surrendering after killing spree, says Afghan official
The US soldier who allegedly shot 16 Afghan villagers was caught on surveillance video that showed him walking up to his base and raising his arms in surrender, according to an Afghan official who viewed the footage. The official said late on Tuesday that US authorities showed Afghan authorities the surveillance video to prove that only one perpetr...
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Afghan delegation attacked by militants at site of US killings
Taliban militants opened fire on Tuesday on an Afghan government delegation visiting one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. The gunfire killed an Afghan soldier who was providing security for the delegation, said Gen. Abdul Razaq, the police chief for Kandahar province where the visi...
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Afghan man recounts US soldier's shooting spree
An Afghan man recounted on Monday the harrowing tale of how an American soldier on a killing spree burst into his home in the middle of the night, searched the rooms, then dropped to a knee and shot his father in the thigh as he emerged from a bedroom. The staff sergeant is now in custody, accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, most of them childr...
