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June 26, 2004: Taliban attacks election officials in Afghanistan

On June 26, 2004 a bomb exploded on a bus carrying women who were election workers in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing 2 and wounding 13

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June 11, 2016: Skinning alive of man in Afghanistan

On June 11, 2016 the Afghan Taliban skinned a man alive before throwing him off a cliff to his death.

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May 19, 2011: Taliban ambushes construction crew in Afghanistan

On May 19, 2011 the Taliban ambushed an Afghan construction crew working on a road project in southeastern Afghanistan, leaving at least 35 dead

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Quick Hits 159 – What to do about Afghanistan?

What can we do – if anything – to get out of that nation and consider ourselves ‘safer’?

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March 25, 2014: Taliban terrorists attack the democratic process in Afghanistan

On this day in 2014 Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked an election commission office in Kabul next to the home of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani.

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William C. Malone: What was it like to be a Canadian police officer in Afghanistan?

Episode 82 – The story of an RCMP officer who spent time in Afghanistan in 2011-12 and wrote a book about it.

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January 27, 2018: Suicide bombing in Afghanistan

On this day in 2018 Afghan terrorists detonated an ambulance laden with explosives in Kabul killing at least 95 people and injured 158 others

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January 15, 2006: Suicide bombing in Afghanistan

On this day in 2006 a suicide car bomb hit a Canadian military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing three civilians including diplomat Glyn Berry

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November 26, 2004: Three German soldiers injured by Taliban bombing in Afghanistan

Three German soldiers serving with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan were wounded by a Taliban bomb in November 2004.

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November 23, 2014: Attack on volleyball players in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Haqqani terrorist network was behind a suicide bombing at a volleyball game in November 2014 in which 61 died, including many children