Ex-Taleban chief named governor
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A former Taleban commander who switched sides is made governor of the Afghan town of Musa Qala.
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A curfew has been imposed on the Afghan city of Herat after protests over the sacking of former governor Ismail Khan, local television reports said.
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THE Taleban yesterday threatened to launch attacks during todayâs swearing in of Hamid Karzai as Afghan president. The inauguration was set to take place at Mr Karzaiâs fortress-like palace in Kabul, with
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Incumbent Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of last month&#39;s Afghan presidential election Wednesday and now faces the task of forming a government minus the warlords and drug runners who tainted his last cabinet.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai has named a new Cabinet, sacking the prominent defense minister and removing other warlords from top posts in a major reshuffle weeks after being sworn in as the nationâs first democratically elected president.
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The governor of Uruzgan province, Jan Mohammed Khan, says Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar was among three Taleban fighters killed during a raid in Char Cheno district late Saturday.
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A provincial governor said Monday he had warned an anti-Taliban militia leader targeted in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide attack since the 2001 invasion that militants were trying to kill him. The death toll rose to more than 100.
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A suicide bomber killed the governor of   Afghanistan's southeastern Paktia province on Sunday, the   provincial police chief said.
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KANDAHAR - Afghan forces in the central province of Uruzgan killed a senior commander from Afghanistanâs Taleban militia previously held at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, a senior official said on Sunday.
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A Taleban commander who led attacks on British troops says he was freed from prison for a $15,000 bribe.
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Taleban forces in southern Afghanistan take control of a town at the centre of controversial UK peace deal.
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Bernard Kerik, the no-nonsense former New York police commissioner, was named by President George Bush yesterday to take over at the Department of Homeland Security, charged with keeping America safe from terrorism.
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HERAT, Afghanistan: The western Afghan city of Herat has returned to calm following bloody riots over the sacking of the local governor which left at least four people dead and 50 injured.
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The leader of Afghanistan&#39;s interim government, Hamid Karzai, has been officially declared the winner of last month&#39;s presidential election.
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: Somalia&#39;s new president named a prime minister, choosing a member from another of the four largest clans to preside over what is hoped will be a government of reconciliation in the war-ravaged country.
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The governor of Paktia Province is the highest-ranking official to be killed since the Taliban began a campaign of suicide bombings last year.
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Pakistan has arrested former Taliban defense minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, regarded as top figure in the Afghanistan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.