Raging protests over the burning of a Qur'an at a Florida church boiled over into Afghanistan's turbulent east and south on Sunday, as the Taliban joined the chorus of condemnation. Pleas from the Western world for Afghans to show restraint in responding to the public desecration of Islam's sacred text overseas did little to stop the third day of demonstrations in the conflict-scarred country.
Clashes with police in Kandahar, in the south, left two officers and 18 civilians injured, provincial health director Oayum Pokhla said.
As news of last month's Qur'an burning trickled to other parts of Afghanistan, rallies swept into the east for the first time, flaring up in Jalalabad, where hundreds of people blocked the main highway and set fire to an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama. (read more)
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