Afghans foil &#39;catastrophic&#39; attack on southern city
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KANDAHAR - Afghan troops foiled an attempt to blow up a fuel truck in the city of Kandahar in what the governor said could have been a &quot;catastrophic&quot; attack to disrupt a landmark election.
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Taliban and NATO troops fought battles in southern Afghanistan on Thursday as the alliance pressed ahead with its biggest offensive to quash the insurgents.
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NATO said one of its helicopters crashed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday evening, and a Taliban spokesman claimed the militant group had shot it down
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Kabul - A fuel tanker rigged as a huge truck bomb was seized on the outskirts of Afghanistan&#39;s southern city of Kandahar on Friday on the eve of landmark elections, a spokesperson for Nato peacekeepers said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A remote-controlled car bomb blast on Tuesday shook the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, still reeling from attacks in the area which have killed scores of people in the past two days.
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British and Afghan forces battled Taliban holdouts Thursday after repelling a brazen insurgent attack on a police headquarters a day earlier in a southern town, killing at least 19 militants, a local official said.
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Militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in volatile southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing 19 of the laborers, the Interior Ministry said. The attack occurred shortly after noon in Kandahar province when a roadside bomb exploded near the bus, said Zemeri Bashary, the Interior Ministry spokesman.
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An ethnic Baluchi opposition group claimed responsibility for the attack today, a semi-official news agency said.
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The Taliban remain a serious threat even though they were defeated in a major ground offensive in southern Afghanistan and promising full security would be &quot;foolish,&quot; NATO said.
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NATO-led security forces have launched a major offensive against the Taliban and drug traffickers in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance's regional commander said in a statement on Tuesday.
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A top Taliban commander said Wednesday the group has 4,000 fighters bracing to rebuff NATO's largest-ever offensive in southern Afghanistan, now in its second day. Suicide bombers are ready, land mines have been planted and helicopters will be targeted, Mullah Abdul Qassim, a top Taliban commander in Helmand province told The Associated Press.
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Taliban insurgents fired rockets in parts  of Afghanistan and a huge truck bomb was intercepted on the eve  of the first presidential election in the rugged, war-torn  land, underlining the risk of sabotage by Islamic radicals.
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Taliban militants seized two towns in tumultuous southern Afghanistan, forcing police and government officials to flee, officials said Monday.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (15/11/04) - The major counter-terror operation mounted last week in the three Netherlands towns of The Hague, Amsterdam, and Amersfoort thwarted a planned attack in the country at the last moment, according to Dutch Interior Minister
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in the country's volatile south Friday, killing 19 of the laborers, while Afghan and NATO forces said they killed 35 Taliban militants in two separate firefights.
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An al Qaeda video posted on Islamist Web sites Friday shows armed fighters meticulously planning and executing an operation against what they say are U.S. and Afghan forces at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.
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A huge explosion rocked the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar on Wednesday and at least three Afghan soldiers were wounded, the city&#39;s police chief said.