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By STEPHEN GRAHAM Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan . The purported leader of Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages in Afghanistan said his group is split over whether to &quot;get rid&quot; of
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Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said Afghanistan must stop blaming his country for the Taliban-led insurgency, while NATO's top commander asked for more troops to battle the violence.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan says the captured head of a militant group that kidnapped three UN workers was turned in by one of his own men.
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Palestinian militant groups again call for the setting up of a unified leadership following Yasser Arafat's death.
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A NATO soldier and at least 50 Taliban militants were killed when joint NATO and Afghan soldiers clashed with insurgents in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, the alliance said Sunday.
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The United Nations has not kept an up-to-date list of al-Qaida and Taliban leaders targeted by international sanctions, harming both the fight against terrorism and efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, a key U.N. counterterror official said Friday.
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KABUL - Militants who abducted three United Nations hostages in Afghanistan warned they will decide on Friday whether to kill them because talks have broken down, news reports say.
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A Taliban splinter faction that has threatened to kill three foreign U.N. workers abducted in Afghanistan nearly three weeks ago appeared to narrow its demands for their release Tuesday.
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The leader of the Hizbullah group on Saturday rejected a UN resolution calling for his guerilla army to be dismantled, saying the world body&#39;s call served Israeli interests.
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Afghanistan&#39;s government has asked the country&#39;s most powerful mujahideen commander to give up rule over the western province of Herat in order to escape attacks
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Germany&#39;s Greens, one of the most influential ecologist parties in the world, risk being split in two by deep divisions over the country&#39;s role in Afghanistan.
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A Pakistan government statement disputed what it calls a "ludicrous" CNN report that said Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who heads the religious militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is living in Pakistan.
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The leader of an Islamist militant group may be among the 39 insurgents killed as Lebanese forces overtook a Palestinian refugee camp where militants had holed up and staged attacks for months, according to a Lebanese official and media reports Monday.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Sudanese president announced plans yesterday for a conference next month on ending the conflict in Darfur, but the main rebel factions split over taking part in Ban's peace effort.
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NATO's secretary-general has warned that a proposed U.S. missile defense system risks splitting the alliance between those the program would protect and those it would not, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
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The one-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Omar, who heads the religious militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is living in Pakistan, though not in the same area where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is thought to be, according to a U.S. intelligence source.
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The resurgent Taliban militia poses a tactical problem for the U.S.-led coalition but it cannot take over Afghanistan again, a top U.S. general said.