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An Afghan protester throws rocks towards a water canon near a US military base in Kabul Feb 22, 2012. [Photo/Agencies] Protest demonstration held Wednesday morning in capital city of Kabul and Jalalabad, the capital city of eastern Nangarhar province. ...
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Security forces fired volleys of gunshots into the air to disperse hundreds who had gathered outside a housing complex for foreigners on Kabul's outskirts. Angry demonstrators set a fuel truck ablaze outside the complex, on a main highway linking the...
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Afghan demonstrators throw rocks towards a US military base during a protest against Koran desecration in Kabul on February 22, 2012. Furious Afghans threw rocks and screamed 'death to America', setting fire to shops and vehicles as gunshots rang out at... View Photo »
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Over the past several years, Canada and the Canadian Forces played a significant role in establishing the security foundation in Kandahar Province that set the conditions for governance and development ... I'm proud of the work of our men and women in Afghanistan's most dangerous province. Our commitmen...
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Afghanistan - Anti-American demonstrations erupted on the outskirts of Kabul for a second day Wednesday and in another Afghan city over an incident that the U.S. said was inadvertent burning of Muslim holy books at a military base in Afghanistan. ...
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Habib Khan Totakhil And Dion Nissenbaum KABUL—Demonstrators armed with iron rods, wooden sticks and stones rampaged through the streets of Kabul Wednesday as outrage spread over the burning of copies of the Quran, Islam's sacred book, at a U.S. military...
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Angry protesters hurled stones and shouted "Death to America, death to Obama, death to Karzai!" On the outskirts of Kabul, shots were fired into the crowd, injuring several people. "They are marching towards Kabul. Police are trying to stop them. We...
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Afghan demonstrators throw rocks towards police reciprocating with a water canon near a US military base during a protest against Koran desecration in Kabul on February 22, 2012. Furious Afghans threw rocks and screamed 'death to America', setting fire... View Photo »
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a NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers remained in dispute and Pakistan threatened to boycott an international conference on Afghanistan’s future ... The military coalition in Kabul said it was still investigating the Saturday morning incident, but a spokesman suggested a joint U.S.-Afghan o...
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Afghans descended on the largest American air base in their country in the bitter cold on Tuesday to protest what is generally regarded as one of the most offensive acts in the Muslim world. By early morning Wednesday, several hundred protesters armed...
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Feb 22 (IANS) Thousands of Afghans Wednesday staged demonstrations in Kabul and Jalalabad over the alleged burning of the holy Quran by foreign soldiers, with three injured in clashes with police. Protests erupted Tuesday here after media reports said...
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Kābul (Pashto/Persian: کابل ), is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, with population of about 3 million people. It is an economic and cultural center, situated 5,900 feet (1,800 metres) above-sea-level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River. Kabul is linked with Ghazni, Kandahar, Herat and... Full Article
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An Afghan youth shouts anti-US slogans during a protest against Koran desecration in Kabul on February 22, 2012. Shots were fired into a crowd of anti-US demonstrators trying to march on the centre of the capital Kabul on February 22, wounding at least three people, an AFP photographer...
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An Afghan man points to blood on a street during a protest near a U.S. military base in Kabul February 22, 2012. Several people were wounded on Wednesday, witnesses said, when shots were fired as hundreds of angry Afghans gathered in a second day of violent clashes after copies of the...
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An Afghan policeman walks past a tyre burnt by protesters during an anti-US demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Police say anti-American demonstrations are under way on the outskirts of the Afghan capital and in another city over an incident that the U.S. says...
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Black smoke leaps the air from tires which were burnt by protesters during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Anti-American demonstrations erupted on the outskirts of Kabul for a second day Wednesday and in another Afghan city over an incident...
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Afghan day laborers wait for customers in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012.
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This October 27, 2009 file photograph shows an Afghan man as he reads the Koran at a mosque in Kabul. On February 21, 2012 the US commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan apologised over reports that foreign troops had set fire to copies of the Koran and ordered a full investigation into...
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Ten year old Afghan Muhammed Hameed sells cigarettes in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012.
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Afghan women and men walk along a street in Kabul on February 19, 2012. A harsh winter has killed almost 40 children in Afghanistan in the past month, most of them in refugee camps in Kabul with aid groups warning of more deaths as temperatures keep falling. Twenty-four children lost...
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An Afghan man, carrying a snow shovel, walks with pedestrians as snow falls in Kabul on February 20, 2012. Harsh winter weather has killed at least 40 children in Afghanistan in a month, two dozen of them in refugee camps in Kabul, and aid groups warn of more deaths as temperatures...
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Afghan youths push wheelbarrows as snow falls in Kabul on February 20, 2012. Harsh winter weather has killed at least 40 children in Afghanistan in a month, two dozen of them in refugee camps in Kabul, and aid groups warn of more deaths as temperatures keep falling. Twenty-four...
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