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Sunday 25 October 2020
It’s the second such attack by suspected Afghan police in 24 hours.
Two US Marines were killed in the attack on Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, where Prince Harry is based.
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The Prince has undergone “brutal” training in advance of his tour of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, London’s police chief said his officers can’t interfere in the private lives of the royal family.
The training of some Afghan forces has been suspended while the US military review the process of vetting new recruits following a spike in deadly attacks on international troops last month.
Two suicide attackers – one driving a fuel tanker – blew themselves up near a US base in eastern Afghanistan today.
The video was sent to AFP news agency earlier today and shows a militant commander posing with 12 heads arranged on the ground.
Early reports said that the 15 men and two women had been beheaded but subsequent accounts have shed more light on the attack.
Five people were killed in the gun battle today just outside Kabul while two NATO service members were killed in a separate bomb attack in the south of the country.
Meanwhile, four civilians also died today when hundreds of shells and rockets were fired from neighbouring Pakistan.
A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a rival militant commander’s compound in northwestern Pakistan, killing ten people.
The attack came a day after a suicide bomber killed a prominent Afghan MP. Suicide bombings and roadside attacks are the favoured weapons of the Taliban insurgency.
Ahmad Khan Samangani was welcoming guests to his daughter’s wedding when the explosion occurred in Aybak, the capital of Samangan province.
Women, children and village elders were killed in a pre-dawn raid aiming to capture a Taliban operative earlier this week.
Eighteen government employees and other civilians were killed when a bomb exploded on a bus in northwestern Pakistan.
A pair of suicide bombers struck outside the airport in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar.
The British led operation took place in the early hours of this morning in Badakhshan province.
NATO Secretary General Rasmussen says goal and strategy “remain unchanged” despite French plans to pull troops out early.
Six policemen and one civilian were killed when a group of suicide bombers stormed a government compound earlier today.
Arsala Rahmani – a former minister in the Taliban administration – is killed, in a major blow to Hamid Karzai’s efforts for peace.
Noel Scanlon moved to Afghanistan for work after the Irish economy collapsed in 2008. Here, he writes about how life on military bases is very different from home.
Funding of the fledgling Afghanistan security forces is expected to top the agenda at the two-day talks in Brussels.
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Kabul and three other cities were targeted in the attacks. They were blamed on the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, which has links to al-Qaida.
Gunmen targeted a government delegation as it visited relatives of the shooting victims.
Threats follow shooting which claimed the lives of 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar province.
Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, however Taliban sympathisers have been known to operate in the area.
A time bomb has killed eight members of an anti-Taliban militia in northwest Pakistan, according to local officials.
The bomb exploded by a police building in Kandahar, killing five officers and two civilians.
Four alleged militants have been killed following the first suspected US drone attack in Pakistan in more than two months.
Four French troops have been killed and 15 others injured by an Afghan soldier – raising fears of increased Taliban infiltration of the Afghan police.
Four soldiers were shot dead, while another six were killed in a helicopter crash.
It was the second suicide bombing in as many days in southern Afghanistan, which is the birthplace of the Taliban insurgency.
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Two of the four soldiers depicted apparently urinating on dead Taliban fighters face disciplinary action after being tracked down by authorities.
Defence secretary Leon Panetta calls Hamid Karzai and promises a full investigation into the video, which was leaked online.
Video footage appears to show US soldiers despoiling corspes in Afghanistan, but it not clear when or where it was filmed.
A bomb exploded in the Kyber region of Pakistan today, killing 25 and injuring dozens.
The people will killed when a bomb exploded in a rubbish bin in the southern city of Tirin Kot, a day after five NATO soldiers died.
A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car bomb at a paramilitary camp as revenge for a US drone attack in October.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
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Richard Nairns details some of what he discovered when he moved to Ned’s Wood in Co Wicklow.
A couple of afternoon showers
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Winds subsiding with a couple of showers
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Clouds breaking, rain ending; breezy
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