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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

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Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:47am EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0730 GMT (3:30 a.m. EDT) on Monday:

FARAH - Taliban gunmen have attacked an Afghan army convoy in the village of Shewan in western Farah province. So far two Taliban fighters have been killed and two Afghan soldiers have been wounded, a spokesman for the Afghan army said.

KUNAR - Six civilians were killed in a roadside bomb in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said.

BADGHIS - The Taliban hanged a man they accused of being a government spy in Bala Morghab district of northwestern Badghis province on Saturday, a police spokesman said.

(Reporting by Sayed Salahuddin and Shrafuddin Sharafyar; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
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