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Taliban ambushed a convoy of coalition and Afghan National Army forces and destroyed their 10 vehicles in Panjwai district of Kandahar province. After a while Taliban attacked three security posts in the area which were demolished.Â
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August, 2006
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20 August
Five Russian Soldiers Killed in Chechnya
On Friday afternoon (August 18), a diversion group of Mujahideen blew up a Russian armored personnel carrier in the area of village Eshelkhatoi, killing 2 and wounding at least 4 invaders.
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20 August
Two Russian Puppets Terminated in Ingushetia
On the night from August 19 to August 20, the houses of two puppet policemen were attacked in village Alkhasty in the Russian-occupied Muslem Caucasian state of Ingushetia. Two munafiqs (apostates) were killed, their houses burnt; report local Russian proxies. No other details were given.
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20 August
CIA spy chief for Venezuela
The United States has named a “manager” for its intelligence operations against Venezuela and Cuba. North Korea and Iran are the only other countries that have been assigned so-called “mission managers”, who supervise intelligence operations against them.
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20 August
US image in Arab world won’t improve
WASHINGTON — A US-backed diplomatic pact to end more than a month of war between Israel and Islamist fighters in Lebanon may stop the worst of the killing and retire the daily television images of burning buildings and suffocated children.
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20 August
47 killed in series of blasts in south Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) — Three back-to-back explosions killed 47 people and wounded more than 70 Sunday night in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood in southern Baghdad, police said.
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20 August
Ongoing heavy toll in Lebanon ‘unacceptable’ — Red Cross
GENEVA (AFP) — The International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday slammed the ongoing heavy civilian casualties in the conflict in Lebanon as “unacceptable”.
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20 August
Gaza — impoverished smaller half of future Palestinian state
GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Gaza Strip, the lesser half of the Palestinians’ promised future state, is home to 1.4 million residents who struggle against poverty and violence on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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20 August
Gaza — impoverished smaller half of future Palestinian state
GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Gaza Strip, the lesser half of the Palestinians’ promised future state, is home to 1.4 million residents who struggle against poverty and violence on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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20 August
Shiites pour into Baghdad year after deadly stampede
Jordan takes first step among Arabs to post ambassador BAGHDAD (Agencies) — Security forces were on high alert Saturday as hundreds of thousands of Shiite devotees marched into Baghdad to mark the death of a revered imam, a year after a stampede killed nearly 1,000 pilgrims.
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