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n. - A city in northwestern Afghanistan on the site of several ancient cities.

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  • Herat - Three men were shot dead and one other was hanged by Taliban militants after Friday prayers in the Guzara district of western Herat province, a police...
  • They died of wounds sustained from a non-combat related incident in Herat, Afghanistan.
  • Conolly and Karamat Ali were essentially stranded in Herat when Sayyid Muhin Shah came to their rescue.
  • It was in Herat that al-Zarqawi formed the militant organization Jund al-Sham, or Soldiers of the Levant.
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