Burqa-clad Taliban leader caught as NATO attacks
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Afghan soldiers have captured a Taliban leader who tried to flee a security operation in the south dressed in a burqa, NATO said on Wednesday.
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Dozens killed as troops encircle mountain base of Taliban chief linked to Bhutto killing
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A senior Taliban commander was arrested by Pakistani forces as he tried to slip across the Afghan border into Pakistan.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistani security forces wounded and captured a top Taliban commander, Mullah Mansour Dadullah, in an operation on Monday near the border with Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.
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Pakistan has arrested the leader of a Taliban splinter group suspected of masterminding the recent kidnapping of three United Nations workers in neighboring Afghanistan, an official has told CNN.
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The Taliban threatened Monday to launch  attacks during the swearing in of Afghan President Hamid Karzai  while the U.S. military said every precaution was being taken  to protect a ceremony to be attended by top U.S. officials.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 11 -- A top Taliban commander in Afghanistan who claimed close ties to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was captured Monday in southwestern Pakistan, according to a Pakistani military official.
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The head of a radical Pakistani mosque at the centre of a bloody stand-off with security forces was arrested on Wednesday while trying to escape clad in a woman's burqa, officials said.
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Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through volatile southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said.
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NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants Tuesday in a volatile southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have amassed.
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A failed rocket attack on a U.S. helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai was carried out by a self-confessed Taliban commando, Afghanistan's top law-enforcer said Saturday.
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Afghan security forces have captured Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief as he traveled in a van to the southern city of Kandahar, provincial officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec 14 -- Afghan forces have captured two top figures of the deposed Taliban government, including the personal security chief of leader Mohammad Omar, provincial officials said Tuesday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A commander of Taliban  guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was  captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed  over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Forces on Saturday said troops will "kick the Taliban out and defeat them" after Taliban forces took control in the southern Afghan district of Musa Qala overnight, shouldering out a locally raised force of auxiliary police loyal to the Afghan government.
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Two NATO soldiers and an Afghan policeman were killed in a battery of attacks that coincided with a NATO summit where world leaders called for extra troops to fight a spiralling Taliban insurgency.
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At least 30 suspected Taleban fighters were killed in an attack by Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, police say.