Bamian
(2002 est. city pop 30,000). Bamian refers to a city, a pass, and a valley lying at the foot of the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan, where, until recently, stood two huge carved statues of ...
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Flooding and an avalanche have killed at least 51 people and destroyed hundreds of homes over the last 10 days, following warm weather and heavy spring rains across much of Afghanistan, officials s...
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A NATO airstrike destroyed a Taliban command post in southern Afghanistan, killing a suspected senior militant leader, the alliance said Friday. Separately, an assailant gunned down an Afghan lawma...
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U.S.-led coalition troops battling suspected militants in southern Afghanistan lobbed a grenade that destroyed a house and killed 15 militants as well as a woman and two children, the coalition sai...
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NATO's commander in Afghanistan said Friday that a battalion of U.S. troops will be sent to the country's insurgency-plagued south, where an airstrike on a Taliban command post killed a senior mili...
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Bamian
Floods, avalanche kill 51 in Afghanistan
