Afghan Taliban say kill one German hostage
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"We can't give up our efforts now"  By Sayed SalahuddinKABUL  - Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of two German hostages and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met."I got information from Taliban that they shot dead one of the hostages and the second one will be killed by 1 p.m. (local time)," Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters by phone from an unknown location.The two unidentified Germans along with six Afghan colleagues were kidnapped at gun point while traveling in a vehicle on Wednesday in Wardak province which lies to the southwest of Kabul. Read more
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Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners  holed up in Kabul's Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a  day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified  as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak.
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One NATO soldier was killed by friendly   fire and several were wounded on Monday during a major   offensive to crush a resurgent Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
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A Turkish engineer kidnapped in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday has been killed officials say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan A Turkish construction engineer has been kidnapped and killed by suspected Muslim militants opposed to the international reconstruction effort in Afghanistan, government officials said Wednesday.
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Taliban guerrillas said  on Tuesday they had killed a Turk kidnapped last month after  the Turkish construction company he worked for ignored an  ultimatum to leave Afghanistan.
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Afghan militants holding three foreigners hostage have said they will kill them unless Taleban and al-Qaeda prisoners are released by Wednesday.
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A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement on Saturday killed two German hostages after the group's demands were ignored, a spokesman for the militant group said.
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One of the Chinese engineers held hostage by militants in a Pakistani tribal region was killed and another was freed with injuries Thursday, Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese embassy sources as saying.
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A suspected Taliban suicide attack killed six people on Monday at a luxury hotel in Kabul where the Norwegian foreign minister was staying, Afghan officials said.
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U.S. airstrikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high-ranking commander involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.
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A suicide bomber blew up a room full of police officers eating lunch at a southern Afghan checkpoint yesterday, killing 10 and wounding 11, while a roadside bomb in the east killed a NATO soldier, authorities said. In the west, kidnappers released a German man and his translator, hours after demanding $40,000 for their freedom, officials said. ...
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International and Afghan forces killed a dozen Taliban overnight including a commander involved in the July kidnapping of 23 South Koreans, a provincial police chief said Tuesday.
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Afghan security forces killed a senior Taliban commander and two of his comrades in a raid in southern Afghanistan, an official said Sunday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Afghan forces said Tuesday that they killed a Taliban commander behind the kidnapping of South Korean church workers, less than a week after the hostages were let go under a deal seen as a propaganda coup for the hard-line Islamic militia.