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Relatives inspect after an overnight suicide attack at a mosque in Herat, Afghanistan. August 2, 2017.
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In this file photograph taken on October 30, 2014, Afghan youths ride their bicycles past the historic minarets of Herat province. The minarets, built by Queen Gowhar Shad in 1417, received heavy damage in past wars with the British and Soviets. Only five of its over twenty minarets are still standing today. Taliban militants attacked a group of 12 American and European tourists escorted by an Afghan army convoy in western Herat province on August 4, 2016, leaving at least seven people wounded as the insurgents step up nationwide attacks. The tourists — eight British, three Americans and one German national — were ambushed by Taliban gunmen in the restive district of Chesht-e-Sharif, while en route from the neighbouring provinces of Bamiyan and Ghor. / AFP PHOTO / Aref Karimi
Foreign Tourists Wounded in Attack in Western Afghanistan
Six foreign tourists and their driver were wounded in Afghanistan on Thursday in an attack by gunslingers on their convoy as it passed through western Herat province, Afghan government officials said. The group of at least a dozen travelers included eight British...Caption:
Afghan security officials inspect the scene of a suicide bomb attack on a British embassy vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan, on November 27, 2014. (EPA/Hedayatullah Amid)
Suicide bomber kills five in attack on British embassy car in Kabul: officials
Kabul, Reuters—A suicide bomber attacked a British embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing five people including one Briton, officials said. The blast in the east of Kabul wounded 33 people, including many bystanders, the latest in a wave of...Caption:
This image made from AP video shows an injured Afghan National Army soldier taken off from a military vehicle outside the local hospital in Farah, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 3, 2013 (AP Photo via AP video)