Taliban kidnap Briton, two Afghans
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The Taliban said on Tuesday they had captured a Briton and two Afghans in the southern province of Helmand, a major drug producer, but gave no further details.
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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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Taliban insurgents stopped a bus in Afghanistan and kidnapped some of the passengers, including Korean citizens, a local police chief said on Friday.
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KABUL: US-led and Afghan soldiers arrested two senior Taliban commanders and six militants in an operation in south-central Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.
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Three foreigners helping to organize  Afghanistan's presidential election were kidnapped by a gang of  armed men in the capital on Thursday, prompting a huge manhunt  by Afghan authorities and international peacekeepers.
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Armed men kidnapped two Germans and two Afghans working on a dam project in central Afghanistan, police said Thursday.
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The Taliban on Sunday released three Afghan aid workers who had been kidnapped along with their two French colleagues nearly two months ago, a spokesman for the group said. The report could not immediately be verified.
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Two British nationals have been arrested in Afghanistan for posing a threat to national security, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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Afghan officials are optimistic that three UN hostages, including a Briton, will be freed unharmed, a government spokesman said. A Taliban splinter group claims it abducted the trio - Annetta Flanigan from
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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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The Foreign Office said Tuesday it was checking reports that the Islamist Taliban militia had kidnapped a British citizen in southern Afghanistan.
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Islamic militants claim they are holding three foreign election workers kidnapped Thursday from a UN vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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The Taliban released three Afghan aid workers Sunday who were kidnapped with two French colleagues nearly two months ago, as the militant group announced a new operation targeting foreign and government forces.
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weeks after they were snatched from their car on a busy street in central Kabul. Nayan are with a Taliban splinter faction that has threatened to kill them unless Taliban prisoners are freed.
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A German national was kidnapped in western Afghanistan and it was not immediately known if the Taliban were responsible, officials said on Monday.
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Three foreign election workers are kidnapped at gunpoint in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials say.
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THE Government faced a new hostage crisis last night after a Briton running an aid agency was kidnapped by an unidentified armed group.