Fort Apache in Taliban Land
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On Scene: A soldier learns to fiddle, while NATO tries to douse Afghanistan's fires
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Hundreds of Islamist militants captured a Pakistani paramilitary fort near the Afghan border Wednesday, sparking fierce fighting that left seven troops and up to 50 rebels dead, the army said.
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TANK, Pakistan - A former Taliban fighter who was freed in March from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is leading a group of militants who have kidnapped two Chinese engineers and threatened to kill them.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of Taliban militants overran a southern Afghan town that British troops had left after a contentious peace agreement in October, destroying the government center and temporarily holding elders hostage, officials and residents said yesterday.
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KABUL, Sept. 19 -- NATO and Afghan forces launched what officials called a "major military operation" against the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand, a haven for opium poppy cultivation and an insurgent stronghold that is considered Afghanistan's most violent territory.
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WANA, Pakistan Pakistani troops threw a tight cordon on Friday around a troubled South Waziristan district near the Afghan border, residents said, a day after government forces smashed a suspected Al Qaeda training camp there and killed about 50 fighters
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WANA -- About 1,000 Pakistani soldiers backed by helicopter gunships, mortars, and artillery yesterday pounded a mountainous region near the Afghan border where a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers is thought to be hiding. The assault targeted the village of Spinkai Raghzai in South Waziristan, a tribal region where the Pakistani Army has ...
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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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Militants in the country's tribal belt seem to be maneuvering for time and space, analysts say.
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Al-Qaida posted a video Friday of rockets being fired at what it claimed was a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, though it didn't show the rockets landing. The 56-second video appeared to be the latest in a series that the terror network has released to convey that its insurgents are faring well in the Afghan war.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 22 -- Insurgents ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in the country's volatile south Friday, killing 19 of the laborers, and Afghan and NATO forces said they killed 35 Taliban guerrillas in two firefights.
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KOHAT, Pakistan  - Pakistani forces recaptured a road tunnel leading to the volatile tribal belt on the Afghan border on Sunday after killing around two dozen pro-Taliban militants in a fierce battle, the military said.
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How insurgents turned a neighborhood into a battle zone in which U.S. troops have to fight for their lives
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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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KABUL, Oct. 28 -- U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
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ANDAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 17 Â American and Afghan forces moved into this district on Sunday, one of the areas most troubled by insurgents in recent months, as part of a broader operation to reassert control in the strategically important province of Ghazni. But while they encountered little insurgent activity, they did face anger and frustration from the local population.
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - Tribal elders in Pakistan's   troubled North Waziristan region helped security forces arrest   10 suspected Taliban fighters believed to have been returning   from Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.