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The article reports that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was struck by mortar fire with at least one shell hitting a dining facility and slightly injuring one person and causing minor building damage.

The article reports that the Iraqi protesters in the southern city of Najaf burned have down the Iranian Consulate in an outburst of anger at Iran over demands for jobs and better government services.

The article offers information on the mystery of the 265 Russian missing soldiers in Afghanistan. It states that the Russians are trying to resolve the whereabouts of the 265 missing soldiers who were deployed in Afghanistan greater than 23 years. According to War Veterans Committee vice president Alexander Lavrentyev, the organization made a passionate plea to ask for assistance to locate the missing soldiers and he believed that some of them are still alive.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen barraged the diplomatic quarter and the Parliament in the Afghan capital for hours on Sunday and struck three eastern provinces as well, in a complex attack clearly designed to undermine confidence in NATO and Afghan military gains. Though the overall confirmed death toll was low, with six victims initially reported across four provinces, they were among the most audacious coordinated terrorist attacks here in recent years. The multiple sieges ended in Kabul on Monday morning after nearly 18 hours, and silence fell on the city with roads in the bullet-strafed areas beginning to reopen. The last of the attacks to be resolved was the one on the Parliament, which ended at 7:30 a.m., according to a statement by the Afghan Interior Ministry. ''The situation is normal,'' the ministry said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- If war is what happens when diplomacy fails, what results when diplomats themselves fail to be, well, diplomatic with one another? At the Afghan Embassy in Washington, the answer was a punch in the face. Last week, after an argument over who was going to put together a filing cabinet and where it would be placed, an Afghan Embassy staff member who handles relations with Congress decked a colleague who handles the mission's administrative affairs, current and former diplomats said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least four strong explosions rocked Kandahar on Saturday evening, causing buildings to collapse and killing dozens of people, according to Afghan and American officials. The Kandahar authorities asked NATO forces to help in the rescue alongside Afghan soldiers and Afghan National Police. One of the attacks occurred near the city's police headquarters and another near the Kandahar prison. The other targets were still unclear three hours after the explosions, officials said. On Sunday, a roadside bomb killed a Pakistani construction worker and wounded six others near Pakistan's consulate in the city, Reuters reported. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The American Embassy in Baghdad announced Thursday that it had expanded tenfold its program to help Iraqi employees of the American government here, who faced threats for their work, to obtain visas and ultimately citizenship in the United States. Although the program was established by law in January, it has become a practical reality just in the last two to three weeks as guidelines have been finalized and the embassy has brought in staff members and started processing applications. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The article reports that nine out of 15 suspects identified by Turkish authorities in the reported killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate worked for the Saudi security services, military and other government ministries. One of the suspects was a frequent companion of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman while three others were linked to the prince's security detail. The prince has denied knowledge of the killing and claimed Khashoggi left the consulate freely.