Afghans Hold Taliban Suspects for Karzai Attack
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Three suspected Taliban members have been  arrested for trying to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai by  firing a rocket at his helicopter during his first election  campaign trip outside Kabul, officials said on Friday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 22 -- Afghan security forces on Sunday surrounded the location where Taliban fighters are suspected to be holding 23 South Korean hostages and were prepared to launch an operation if negotiations broke down, Afghan officials said.
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Taliban militants kidnapped about 20 Arabs and Afghans in western Afghanistan and were holding six captive, while a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives next to a NATO convoy, wounding a soldier, officials said Tuesday.
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Afghan officials arrested seven suspects in connection with an apparent assassination attempt against President Hamid Karzai, a government spokesman said Monday.
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A German soldier, right, of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and an Afghan security police stand guard below a poster of President Hamid Karzai in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.
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The Afghan government on Thursday blamed drug smugglers &#151; not Taliban or al-Qaida fighters &#151; for a bomb attack on interim leader Hamid Karzai's vice presidential running mate, saying the country's landmark elections this weekend are a threat to their business.
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Afghan security forces have detained a supreme court judge suspected of being involved in an August car bomb attack that killed 10 people, including three Americans, in the capital Kabul, a court official said on Saturday.
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Afghan security forces arrested four men after Taliban attackers disguised as police stormed Kabul's top hotel and killed seven people, including at least three foreigners, officials said Tuesday.
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Afghan army and police surrounded the Taliban kidnappers of 23 Koreans on Sunday while tribal elders tried to mediate between the militants and government negotiators, a Kabul-based Western security analyst said.
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Officials in Afghanistan were trying to establish whether a seriously wounded one-legged militant captured after a gun battle was Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah.
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Three men have been arrested for trying to kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai by firing a rocket at his helicopter during his first election campaign trip outside the capital, officials said on Friday.
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The Islamist group that claims to have kidnapped three UN staff in the Afghan capital has provided evidence for the first time that it is holding them.
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Afghan officials say they have arrested 17 people who had been trained in Pakistan to carry out suicide attacks.
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The United States has released 11 Afghans  held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on suspicion of Taliban links  after a request from President Hamid Karzai, an Afghan official  said on Wednesday.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages claimed Wednesday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives.
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Afghan authorities have arrested four people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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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.