Afghans flee town as Taliban dig in for NATO raid
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - More than 1,000 villagers have fled a southern Afghan town as Taliban fighters dig in to repel NATO efforts to drive them out, residents and officials said on Wednesday.
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NATO launched its largest offensive since 2001 in an effort to preempt a Taliban attack.
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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, Afghanistan -- As NATO troops exert pressure on Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, militants have regrouped in western provinces and ignited violence that has killed a dozen people in two days, officials said yesterday.
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Islamabad, Pakistan, March 6 -- NATO and Afghan forces launched what commanders described as a major operation in a key province of southern Afghanistan Tuesday morning, part of a bid to win back territory that has become a haven for insurgents.
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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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NATO began its spring offensive against the Taliban on Tuesday, launching its biggest attacks since the 2001 war on Taliban rebels and Afghan drug lords.
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NATO launched its biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the 2001 war on Tuesday, targetting the Taliban and drug lords as hundreds of people rallied in the east against U.S. soldiers killing civilians.
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Taliban militants have taken control of at least one district in southern Afghanistan and were fought back after briefly taking another, Afghan officials said.
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NATO battled Taliban holdouts in the   deserts of southern Afghanistan on Saturday amid a security   crackdown in the capital after at least 16 people were killed   by a suicide bomber.
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The Afghan government and Nato-led troops are preparing to recapture a town stormed by the Taleban.
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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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NATO and Afghan troops have killed scores   more Taliban guerrillas as part of the alliance's biggest   offensive against the resurgent militants in Afghanistan, the   alliance said on Monday.
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US forces raided a suspected Taliban hideout in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing two fighters and capturing at least one more, officials said. The hourlong battle occurred in Dewalak, a village in Zabul Province along the Pakistani border, said Khial Mohammed, the provincial governor. US troops attacked after surrounding the village and coming under fire from the rebels, he said. The ...
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An aid group in Afghanistan said it was considering pulling out of part of the country after Taliban militants attacked its compound in a southern town yesterday, killing three people and engaging authorities in a gun battle.
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Ethiopian troops trying to protect Somalia's weak government moved into a second Somali town before dawn Saturday, seizing control of an airport, witnesses and aid workers 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.