Taliban seize 18 Afghan mine clearing experts
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Taliban fighters have seized 18 Afghan mine clearing experts and threatened to kill them if investigations suggest they are working for U.S.-led forces in the country, officials and the insurgents said on Sunday.
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More than 18,000 US troops and innumerable Afghan forces are in the process of searching every inch of Afhganistan and Afghan-Pak border.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 -- A Turkish engineer and two Afghans were apparently kidnapped Tuesday in an area of eastern Afghanistan where bandits and insurgents from the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups operate, officials said.
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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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Ten members of an Afghan mine clearing team kidnapped last week have been released, officials say.
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Afghan guards backed by U.S. helicopter  gunships raided a Taliban safe house, killing one man and  arresting 15, to prevent attacks during this week's  presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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Taliban insurgents have kidnapped two foreign officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Afghan province of Wardak, the provincial police chief said on Thursday.
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Gunmen kidnapped six government soldiers in a former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan and dumped their bullet-ridden bodies in a canal, a local official said Thursday.
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KABUL, August 30 (Online): US and Afghan soldiers conducting a large sweep arrested 22 suspected Taliban after a firefight in a forbidding mountain region of Zabul province, Afghan and US military officials said .
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On a flinty hill overlooking Kabul, Ahmed  Naseer leads a team of the mine-clearing charity Halo Trust,  dismantling the wreckage of 78 huge Soviet anti-aircraft  missiles that once formed Afghanistan's 99th Rocket Brigade.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Information from a man caught in a vehicle loaded with explosives led to the arrests of two senior Taliban military commanders, including a former security chief of the hard-line regime's leader, Mullah Omar, an official said yesterday.
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Detectives investigating an alleged terrorist kidnap plot finish searching 18 addresses.
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Taliban militants released 12 captives in a series of handovers yesterday, part of a deal with Seoul to free all 19 South Korean hostages that one Afghan minister warned would embolden the insurgents.
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Eighteen soldiers held hostage by pro-Taleban militants in a Pakistani tribal region are released, officials say.
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At least 18 people were killed and 25  were missing on Wednesday when an underground explosion tore  through a coal mine in Kazakhstan belonging to Mittal Steel.
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Pro-Taleban militants have killed 18 soldiers in Pakistan's tribal area of North Waziristan, local officials say.
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Pakistani forces captured 40 militants in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border, a military spokesman said on Saturday, a day after up to 90 rebels were killed in two battles.