U.S. commander in Pakistan as Taliban attack fort
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A top U.S. commander met with Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Kayani on Tuesday, as Pakistani forces repulsed an attack by Taliban fighters close to a fort in a restive tribal region.
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Pakistani villagers said gunship  helicopters launched strikes on Sunday in an area regarded as a  stronghold of a Taliban commander linked with the assassination  of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - A missile attack, possibly launched by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, killed at least 32 pro-Taliban militants on Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region near the border, Pakistani officials said.
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U.S. soldiers descended on a mountain ridge Sunday, quickly setting up fortified posts and mortar positions overlooking a key Taliban transport route as the coalition pressed a major offensive that has killed dozens of suspected militants.
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The commander of U.S. forces in Central Asia has launched planning for more extensive use of U.S. troops to train Pakistani armed forces
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A senior U.S. military commander urged Pakistan yesterday to crack down on an entrenched network of senior Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, training camps and recruiting grounds -- a sanctuary from which fighters have tripled cross-border attacks since September and are preparing an anticipated major spring offensive in southern and eastern Afghanistan....
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - At least 700 Taliban fighters have crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan to attack a key dam, a major source of electricity, a provincial governor said on Monday.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces captured one of the Taliban's three most senior leaders just hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unannounced visit to Pakistan earlier this week, a senior security official and Taliban sources said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Islamic militants in Pakistan attacked a fort near the Afghan border Tuesday, one of two clashes with government forces that left seven troops and 37 fighters dead, the army said. In Europe, President Pervez Musharraf said border attacks were "pinpricks" that his government...
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PAKISTAN&#39;S army backed by artillery and helicopter gunships demolished some &quot;terrorist hideouts&quot; in an offensive against foreign militants but failed to capture a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of targeting security forces in a tense tribal region
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The Pakistani military pounded an extremist stronghold where a rebel leader blamed for the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is believed to be hiding
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Dozens killed as troops encircle mountain base of Taliban chief linked to Bhutto killing
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In an embarrassing battlefield defeat for Pakistan's army, Islamic extremists attacked and seized a small fort near the Afghan border
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A suicide bomber hits the center of U.S. force in South Asiaâand the Taliban's spring offensive is yet to come.
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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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Pakistani forces are driving al Qaeda-linked militants out of mountains near the Afghan border but small attacks, such as a bomb that wounded some soldiers, could not be ruled out, a commander says.
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WANA -- About 1,000 Pakistani soldiers backed by helicopter gunships, mortars, and artillery yesterday pounded a mountainous region near the Afghan border where a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers is thought to be hiding. The assault targeted the village of Spinkai Raghzai in South Waziristan, a tribal region where the Pakistani Army has ...