Sayed Salahuddin
Sayed Salahuddin works from Kabul, Afghanistan. I was born 40 years ago in Kabul and since 1996 have been working with Reuters as journalist in Afghanistan covering political and general news. Sayed Salahuddin has over 57 followers on Twitter.
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/ 13 May 2008

Taliban ban TV in Afghan province

Taliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near the capital Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programmes, officials and local media said on Tuesday. The order is the last in a wave of curbs that the resurgent militants have announced in areas they are active.

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/ 5 December 2007

Suicide bomber kills 13 in Kabul

A suicide bomber targeted a bus carrying Afghan army personnel in Kabul on Wednesday, killing six military staff and seven civilians, a defence ministry source said. The bomber used a car in the attack, which happened during the morning rush hour on a road in the south-western part of the city.

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/ 30 August 2007

Wanted Taliban leader killed in raid

A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a United States-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said, citing ground commanders. Brother served as a top military commander for the Taliban government until its removal from power in 2001.

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/ 23 July 2007

Last king of Afghanistan dies, aged 92

Former Afghan king Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in the country’s recent history, died on July 23, aged 92. President Hamid Karzai declared three days of mourning and ordered flags to be flown at half mast for the man heralded as ”father of the nation”.

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/ 30 April 2007

US claims to have killed dozens of Taliban fighters

United States-led coalition troops killed more than 130 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan over the past several days, the coalition said on Monday, the heaviest reported rebel losses this year amid rising violence in the country. Backed by air support, the Taliban were killed in two separate battles in the western province of Herat, the US military said in a statement.

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/ 3 October 2006

Nato set to take over in Afghanistan

Nato will assume responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday when it takes command in the east from United States-led coalition forces, a senior Nato official said on Tuesday. Nato’s International Security Assistance Force already commands forces in the north, west and south, as well as in the capital, Kabul.

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/ 10 September 2006

Suicide bomber kills Afghan provincial governor

A suicide bomber assassinated an Afghan provincial governor on Sunday, as Nato said it killed almost 100 more Taliban fighters in its biggest offensive against the resurgent Islamist group. Governor Hakim Taniwal, a former mines minister who once lectured in an Australian university, is the first provincial chief killed since the Taliban fell five years ago.