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The article reports on roadside bombings in Afghanistan in November 2012. It states that the attacks killed 17 civilians, mostly women and children. Provincial governor spokesman Abdul Rahman Zawandai says that the victims hit an improvised explosive device that was planted in the road. It mentions that the locations of bomb attacks are surrounded by the Afghan National Police, Afghan National Army Soldiers, and Afghan Local Police which could have been the designated target of the attack.

The article reports on the death of Afghan insurgent Mirza M. Khan at a U.S.-led military base in southern Afghanistan as American troops thought he was going to cause a problem as he left the base furious after hours of questioning.

The article reports on the assassination of Najia Sediqi, who is the acting head of women's affairs in Laghman Province in Afghanistan. Ahmad Gul Baidar, the head of administrative affairs for the women's department, says that two assailants on a motorcycle killed Sediqi as she was getting into a rickshaw in Mehtar Lam. The death of Hanifa Safi, former women's affairs head, caused by the explosion of an improvised bomb under her car was attributed to the Taliban.

The article reports on the suicide bombing in Afghanistan, which killed 45 people. The attack in Maimana also wounded 60 people. According to Naqibullah Faiq, a member of Parliament from Faryab, among the dead were 25 members of the Afghan national security forces, including the commander of the Afghan National Civil Order Police for Faryab, the head of the police quick-reaction force and the chiefs of police for two districts of Maimana.

The article reports on the insider shootings of Western soldiers and civilians by Afghan forces have broken the trust between the two military forces. It states that the shootings have killed 51 coalition soldiers. It cites that the shootings devolved into a rare fight leading to American soldiers shooting Afghan soldiers who insisted that they are not involved in insider killing. It also mentions that the relationship between the two military forces seems more distant.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least nine Afghans and perhaps many more were forced out of their homes in rural Afghanistan and executed in what Afghan officials called an act of revenge by one ethnic group against another, underscoring the long shadow cast by the country's ethnic hatreds. The killing, which took place Wednesday in eastern Oruzgan Province, appears to have involved a Hazara commander who is said to have avenged the deaths of two fellow Hazaras by leading an armed group to nearby Pashtun villages and killing at least nine people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Local officials in western Afghanistan reported Tuesday that a low-level police commander had switched sides with his men and gone to fight for the Taliban, and an American engineer was reported killed in an area less than 50 miles from the Afghan capital. The apparent defection occurred in the Bala Baluk district of Farah Province in the far west part of the country, where the Taliban have been active. The province borders the Taliban heartland of Helmand Province and the largely lawless Ghor Province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Evading security checks, a suicide bomber wearing a vest with explosives entered the customs compound in Kandahar on Monday and detonated the vest as several American soldiers were emerging from their armored vehicle in the compound's courtyard. The blast killed an American and an Afghan civilian and wounded five other people, including two of the soldiers, according to Afghan and NATO security forces and the United States Embassy. It was the fourth suicide bombing of the year in Kandahar Province. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- It was difficult enough for the people of western Kandahar Province. They are beleaguered both by the Taliban, who control the roads, demand taxes and execute anyone suspected of disloyalty, and by the American military, who often show little regard for people and whose demands that locals stand up to the insurgents seem unreasonable. Still, there was no reason to anticipate something far worse: American soldiers suspected of being a sadistic rogue band led by Sgt. Calvin Gibbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan soldier killed three British soldiers in a premeditated attack in Helmand Province early Tuesday, and then escaped into the night, Afghan officials said. The attack in Babaji, near the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, is sure to further dampen backing for the war in Britain, where support has waned as casualties have risen sharply. In recent months, British forces have endured some of the toughest fighting of the nearly nine-year-old war in Helmand, a huge southern province of both desert and lush canal-fed agricultural land that is the country's opium heartland. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Suicide vests and grenades hidden in boxes of medicine were found Saturday in a hospital run by an Italian charity in the capital of Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, and three Italian citizens were detained along with six Afghans who worked at the hospital, according to the provincial governor and Interior Ministry officials in Kabul. Among those detained by Afghan security forces was a surgeon for the charity, called Emergency, which runs three hospitals in Afghanistan that are well known for their care of people wounded in explosions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Bombings killed at least 13 civilians who had gathered to celebrate spring picnics in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, provincial authorities reported, and a joint NATO-Afghan force shot an elderly man in a house raid on a rural village in Wardak Province. The man was shot during a nighttime military operation to search for a Taliban leader believed to be operating in the Chak-e-Wardak district of the province, according to a NATO spokesman. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A day after five lethal bombs shook Kandahar, officials appealed Sunday to the central government to send more security forces and expand intelligence gathering in the southern province, underscoring the increasing violence and lawlessness in the city. Although Kandahar has long had violent periods, a number of explosions and assassinations in recent weeks have suggested that it is entering an even more chaotic chapter, with the authorities unable to ensure residents' safety. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a new year began in the war in Afghanistan, coalition casualties continued to mount with four American service members and a British soldier killed over the weekend, according to official announcements Monday. A NATO spokesman said the Americans had been killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device exploded while they were on patrol. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The second episode of civilian deaths within a week was under investigation Thursday by the Afghan government and NATO officials after reports that up to seven civilians had been killed in Helmand Province in a NATO missile strike. The latest episode, in Helmand, took place Wednesday afternoon on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, when NATO forces responded to a Taliban provocation and ended up killing a number of civilians. Neither NATO forces nor the Helmand governor's office gave a definitive number of dead, but reports from local people said that five to seven civilians had been killed, including three children. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest killed at least eight American civilians, most of them C.I.A. officers, at a remote base in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, according to NATO officials and former American intelligence officials. The attack at the C.I.A. base, Forward Operating Base Chapman, in Khost Province appeared to be the single deadliest episode for the spy agency in the eight years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It also dealt a significant blow to the often insular, tight-knit organization, which has lost only 90 officers in the line of duty since its founding in 1947. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Deepening a rift between allies, Afghan investigators on Wednesday sharply contradicted accounts by NATO officials about the deaths of 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, saying a visit to the remote site showed that nearly all those killed were school-age boys and one was an elderly man. They blamed international forces for the deaths. NATO officials said earlier this week that all those killed last weekend in a joint operation by Afghan and international forces in a remote district of eastern Kunar Province were armed insurgents who smuggled bombs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Afghan Defense Ministry and local officials in Badghis Province said on Saturday that seven members of the Afghan security forces had been killed in a NATO airstrike the day before that was part of an effort to aid a beleaguered Afghan and NATO operation against the Taliban. A NATO spokesman confirmed that the seven Afghan officers had been killed, as well as an Afghan civilian working with the Afghan forces. The organization is investigating whether its close air support was responsible for the casualties. According to NATO, five American soldiers were wounded in the operation against the militants, along with 15 Afghan soldiers, two Afghan police officers and one Afghan civilian working with the troops. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Attackers stormed a guest house in central Kabul on Wednesday morning, killing five people, including three United Nations staff members, according to a United Nations spokesman and an Afghan rescue official. The Afghan authorities said five gunmen were killed, according to American Embassy officials. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A bomb placed in a motorbike exploded at an outdoor market in Baghdad on Friday, killing about a dozen people and wounding scores. It marked the third straight day of violence in the capital before the Tuesday deadline for American combat troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities. After another similar bombing outside a billiard hall in Baghdad later on Friday that killed two people and wounded seven, the authorities ordered all motorbikes off the streets indefinitely. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At least seven bombs exploded around Iraq on Thursday amid an uptick in violence as American troops prepared to withdraw from Iraqi cities by Tuesday. The bombings were widespread, making targets of both Shiites and Sunnis, civilians and Iraqi security forces, and American soldiers. There were at least five attacks in Baghdad. One, at a bus station, killed two people and wounded 30 in the late morning, security officials said, though witnesses at the scene said the toll was higher. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A suicide truck bomb exploded in a volatile region of northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 68 people and wounding nearly 200 more, even as Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki pledged that attacks like it would not stop or slow the withdrawal of American troops. Also on Saturday, the British government said the bodies of two men, believed to be among five Britons kidnapped by Shiite militants in 2007, had been turned over to British authorities in Baghdad. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Suicide bombings in Baghdad and Mosul took the lives of at least 32 Iraqis on Monday in carnage that recalled the levels of violence before the American troop buildup last year. The Baghdad bombing occurred at a police training academy on the eastern side of the Tigris just as students were leaving their lectures for lunch. As they streamed out the gate, a car dropped off a young man -- most witnesses say he looked to be 16 or 17 -- who walked into the crowd and detonated his suicide vest, according to witnesses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Eleven people died after Americans raided a house in the northern city of Mosul at dawn on Sunday and one of the residents detonated a suicide vest while others engaged in a gunfight, the American and Iraqi militaries said. The Americans said that after they entered the house in pursuit of a known insurgent, his companions opened fire and the insurgent detonated his vest. Three women and two children died during the raid, though it was unclear whether they were killed by the gunfire between the Americans and the insurgents or by the explosion. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At least 20 Iraqi men were killed in an ambush on Wednesday as they searched for weapons in an agricultural area that had been held by extremist Sunni insurgent groups, the Iraqi police and Iraqi Army officials said. The men, from a joint force of National Police officers and members of the local Awakening Council, an armed neighborhood group backed by the Americans, were operating in a district near the Diyala River, about an hour's drive north of Baghdad. Their patrol was organized with little or no consultation with the Iraqi Army or the American military in the area, local Iraqi security commanders said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Iraqi government and leaders of the movement of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr agreed Saturday to a truce, brokered with help from Iran, that would end more than a month of bloody fighting in the vast, crowded Sadr City section of Baghdad. The fighting there, which has claimed several hundred lives, left many more wounded and forced residents to flee, has tested the ability of Iraq's Shiite-led government to confront powerful Shiite militias, here in Baghdad and in Basra, to the south. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that 40 people were killed when government troops clashed with a millennial religious militia group in southern Iraq. However, the troops protected millions of pilgrims on the first day of Ashura, the largest religious holiday for Iraq's Shiite majority. The day is stated to be frequently marred by violence. The Iraqi government and the Parliament faced new criticism over the killings from both, a leading Shiite party and from the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr.

The article presents information about the casualties of heavy fighting of the U.S. forces in three locations in Sadr City, Iraq. According to a U.S. military official and a military statement about the episode, the U.S. forces came under heavy fire and returned fire, killing 49 militants. Iraqi witnesses stated that 17 people had been killed and 40 were wounded.

The article reports on the American airstrike in a Shiite town in Diyala Province in Iraq, on October 5, 2007, killing 25 people. The American military said that those attacked were criminals and carrying weapons. The eyewitnesses said that the victims were civilians, some of them armed. The American military said that they were searching for Iranian forces that were instigating violence in Iraq. The claim was refuted by the eyewitnesses.

The article reports on the killing of several people attached with the U.S. armed forces in Iraq on October 4, 2007. The victims included a police chief and a tribal leader. Police Brigadier Ihsan Abdul-Kareem al-Taie was killed in Babil Province. The convoy of tribal leader Moawiya Jebara was blown up by a roadside bomb in Salahuddin Province, killing him and five of his bodyguards.

The article reports on the killing of Iraqi civilians in an American airstrike in the Abu Dshir district in Iraq, on September 27, 2007. It is said that some people were playing a traditional Ramadan game in the evening. Two U.S. helicopters appeared in the sky and fired rockets on the crowd and then the helicopters' machine guns began shooting at the fleeing crowd. This resulted in the killing of at least seven Iraqis. The U.S. military, however, has refuted the charge.

The article reports on a car bombing in Sadr City, Iraq, on September 8, 2007, in which 15 people were killed. The area is one of Shiite strongholds in the country. The vehicle bombing was one of three attacks against the supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr. In the first week of September 2007, the cleric had ordered his militia to halt all attacks. The vehicle bombing was first after the call.

The article reports on the killing of seven U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Four were killed in Anbar Province on September 6, 2007. They were conducting combat operations. Three others were killed in Nineveh Province. These provinces are majority Sunni Arab areas. Information about the fate of the death sentence of General Sultan Hashim Ahmed, Defense Minister in former President Saddam Hussein's government, is also offered.

The article presents several tales of suffering from Diyala province in Iraq that has been torn by ethnic strife. There is a village in Al Hadid in the west of Diyala that has a fake checkpoint run by the Islamic State of Iraq. The gunmen manning the checkpoint killed men from a famil who were returning from wedding.

The article reports that at least 39 people were killed in assassinations and car bombs in Iraq on July 17, 2007, and a massacre of Shiite civilians in Diyala Province killed 29 people on July 16, 2007. According to a police official at the Interior Ministry, one car bomb exploded in the Zayouna killing 20 people and wounding 20. In Diyala, the attack on the small hamlet of Dulayiya, a Shiite community, came when people gathered to watch a match of the Iraqi soccer in the Asian Games.

The article reports that 46 Iraqis were killed in assassinations, roadside bombs and a suicide car bomb. Not only this, two soldiers of the U.S. also died, one in a combat operation in Baghdad and another in a helicopter crash. Several sectarian killings indicated reasons for widespread anxiety over brutal acts by Shiite and Sunni groups. In separate incidents, two Iraqi reporters were also killed.

The article reports that 25 people were killed in two suicide car bombs in Ramadi, Iraq in May 7, 2007. In the first attack, a suicide car bomber hit a market and killed at least a dozen people. The second car bomb exploded killing six policemen and several civilians when ambulances and reinforcements rushed to the scene of the first attack. The two attacks were a blow to the strategy of handling insurgents.

The article reports on several violent attacks carried out across Iraq on May 6, 2007. In the attacks, more than 50 Iraqi civilians, eight soldiers and a journalist were killed. The soldiers and journalist were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Diyala Province. Of the attacks, the most violent was one occurred in a fruit and vegetable market in south-west Baghdad. A suicide bomber blew up his truck in the market, killing 35 people.

The article reports that 9 American soldiers were killed in a suicide car bombing on April 23, 2007 in Diyala Province, Iraq. Twenty American soldiers and one Iraqi civilian were also wounded in the bombing. Meanwhile, a car bomber attacked a group of police cars parked in Baquba, Diyala Province, on the aforesaid day, killing six policemen.

The article reports on the explosion of a bomb by a suicide car bomber near a bus station in Karbala, Iraq on April 14, 2007. 36 people were killed in the explosion. Hospital officials reported that 168 persons, including 44 women and 11 children, were injured. Meanwhile, five Iraqi police officers were wounded in a clash with gunmen in Diyala Province, Iraq.

The article reports on a declaration made by the government of Iraq regarding the death toll in the northern city of Tal Afar, Iraq due to truck bombing in March 2007. The government has put the death toll at 152 people, which is about double as compared to the early reports. It is stated that it was the highest total from a single bomb in the four-year-old war provided the above-mentioned death toll declared by the government is correct.

The article reports on the revenge killings of Sunnis following a double suicide bombing in a Shiite area in Tal Afar, Iraq. Two hours after the explosion of truck bombs, gunmen went house to house, dragged people into the street and shot them dead in a Sunni neighborhood. According to an Iraqi Army spokesman, the retaliatory violence killed 70 people and wounded 30 people.

The article reports on the violence in Iraq on March 19, 2007 on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War 2003. Baghdad witnessed one bomb explosion at a Shiite mosque. Four people were killed and 25 others injured in the explosion. Several other violent incidents were reported from other parts of the country including Kirkuk. Two car bombs exploded in Kirkuk, killing 13 people.

The article reports that Mudhafer al-Ubaidi, head of the Adhamiya District Council in Baghdad, Iraq, was killed on March 14, 2007. Gunmen opened fire on Ubaidi's unarmored car, killing him and his two escorts. On March 12, 2007, two days prior to his death, Ubaidi had discussed with a reporter, the trauma he and his family had been going through owing to the insurgent activities going on in the Sunni Arab neighborhood.

The article reports on the explosion of a car bomb in Baghdad, Iraq that killed seven persons and wounded six others. Local police said that the bomb was apparently aimed at a policeman's wedding party in Faluja, Baghdad. The bomb exploded as the party was gathering at the home of the groom. Abu Khalid, cousin of the groom, said that neither the bride nor the groom was injured.

The article reports on the vehicle bombing that killed 105 people in Amerli village in Baqubah, Iraq, on July 7, 2007. A suicide truck bomber detonated the explosives-laden truck, demolishing dozens of clay-built houses in the village. At least 240 people were also wounded in the bombing. The bombing is described as one of the single deadliest attacks since the Iraq war erupted in 2003.

The article reports that Khalid W. Hassan, interpreter and journalist for "The New York Times" in Iraq, was shot and killed on July 13, 2007 on his way to work. Hassan was shot in the head by a gunman after his car was sprayed by gunfire from another gunman. His cellphone and newspaper credentials were taken from him after the murder.