Slaying of Teachers in Afghanistan Follows New Rules From Taliban
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KABUL, Dec. 9 -- The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating and, if they continue to teach, must be killed.
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Afghan police killed three Taliban commanders allegedly involved in the abduction of 23 South Koreans two months ago, the Interior Ministry said.
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Taliban fighters killed a former local official and four of his bodyguards in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, then killed 25 members of his family when they went to collect his body, relatives and officials said Monday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan security forces killed a senior Taliban commander and two of his comrades in a raid in southern Afghanistan, an official said Sunday.    Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, reportedly a former inmate at the U.S...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan judges sentenced a man to death Saturday over the slaying of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague, who were pulled from their cars, robbed and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
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The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan - a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road project - ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldn&#39;t slow them down with police hot on their trail.
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There has been more violence in Afghanistan where one of the country&#39;s vice presidents has narrowly avoided assassination. Attacks are escalating as Afghanistan prepares
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Human Rights Watch said Monday it has discovered two more US detainee deaths in Afghanistan, including an apparent murder more than two years ago, and said slow-paced investigations had &quot;spawned a culture of impunity&quot; that may have
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In a new effort to end the growing Taliban insurgency, a council of Afghan political and tribal leaders hopes to hold talks with elements of the Islamic group aimed at including them in the government.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - The Taliban claimed   responsibility on Friday for executing a man described as a spy   for U.S. and Afghan intelligence in North Waziristan, a border   region where the Pakistan government signed a pact with tribals   a few weeks ago to stamp out militancy.
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An Afghan accused of killing four journalists in 2001 has been sentenced to death by a court in Kabul. Reza Khan was convicted of attacking the three foreigners and an Afghan about 90km (60 miles) east of Kabul.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of the two German hostages it was holding after the end of its deadline, and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Taliban insurgents have beheaded seven Afghan civilians accused of spying for foreign and Afghan government forces in the past 10 days, a senior Afghan intelligence official said on Saturday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban rebels killed two tribal elders who were encouraging participation in elections and shot to death an Afghan military commander in an ambush, officials said Saturday    Meanwhile, the U.S. military apologized for the latest civilian casualty of its operations to protect landmark October elections...
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A commando-style suicide raid on Afghanistan's top hotel, frequented by foreigners and diplomats, shows a new method of Taliban attack aimed at soft civilian targets, diplomats and analysts said on Tuesday.
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KABUL -- Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages said yesterday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives. Afghan state television reported that President Hamid Karzai had decreed the release of prisoners for Eid, the end of the Muslim fasting month, expected on Sunday. But there was no ...
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Why Pakistan still isn't aggressively pursuing the ex -- Taliban leaders living inside the country