Afghan army storms siege prison
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Islamabad, Dec. 18. (Guardian News Service): Afghan soldiers stormed a notorious prison in Kabul on Friday night in an attempt to break a bloody ten-hour siege that left five prison guards and two prisoners dead.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan - Demonstrators stormed U.N. compounds and stoned U.S...
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Guatemalan security forces storm a jail that has been under prisoner control for 10 years, killing seven inmates.
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Three Afghan prison guards and two prisoners were killed in a jail break attempt by al Qaeda inmates Friday and a shoot-out was going on between police and another two, the chief of Kabul's Pul-i-Charki prison told Reuters.
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Coalition and national troops battled militants in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the eve of a sweeping anti-Taliban offensive by U.S.-led forces &amp;#151; their biggest since the Islamic extremist government&#039;s 2001 ouster.
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About 1,000 Pakistani soldiers backed by helicopter gunships, mortars and artillery Wednesday pounded a mountainous region near the Afghan border where a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who masterminded the kidnapping of two Chinese engineers is believed to be hiding.
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Afghan police lifted a brief siege of the house of former ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum in Kabul on Sunday after he and a group of around 50 armed men beat up a former ally, a police chief said.
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Afghan forces say they have surrounded Taleban fighters holding a group of South Korean hostages.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Officials and witnesses say foreign and Afghan security forces have raided houses in Kabul, smashing their way in and detaining several men.
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Foreign and Afghan forces have launched their biggest major operation against the Taliban and drug lords in the country's south, where guerrillas overran a key town a month ago, NATO said on Tuesday.
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Inmates in a Moscow pre-trial detention   center on Monday seized as many as 15 hostages, including a   chief warden and his deputy, and Interfax news agency reported   a blast and automatic gunfire at the prison.
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Hundreds of security forces surrounded an Argentine prison Friday in a tense standoff with 2,000 inmates who overpowered guards, taking about two dozen of them hostage, including the warden. At least eight people were killed.
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BESLAN, Russia  - Russian troops stormed a school  Friday in a chaotic battle to free hundreds of parents,  teachers and children who had been held hostage for two days by  Chechen separatists.
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Suspected Muslim rebels storm a jail in the southern Philippines, freeing at least 47 inmates, officials say.
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More than 200 people died and 700 were wounded, many of them young children, as troops stormed a school here Friday in a harrowing operation to free 1,000 hostages from heavily-armed militants demanding independence for Chechnya.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan freed 81  suspected Taliban fighters from military jails across the  country Sunday and some of the released men said they had been  mistreated and tortured in custody.