Afghan "Peace Convoy" tries to coax Taliban rebels
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In a new effort to end the growing Taliban insurgency, a council of Afghan political and tribal leaders hopes to hold talks with elements of the Islamic group aimed at including them in the government.
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RIGA, Latvia -- In a show of solidarity, NATO leaders agreed yesterday to come to one another's aid in emergencies anywhere in Afghanistan, but their summit did not muster significant reinforcements for operations in Taliban strongholds.
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Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the fighting in Afghanistan is growing more intense &#151; but so is talk of peace.
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters may abandon  their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks  under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's  government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO nations failed to agree on calls by military commanders for 2,500 extra troops to help crush the growing Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, where at least 50 people were killed yesterday in widespread violence.
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More than six years since the Taliban were ousted from power in Afghanistan, the militant movement is being "contained,"
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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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Government officials from the US have helped broker a ceasefire between two rival militia commanders in western Afghanistan.
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US and Pakistani agents were interrogating the Taliban's former defence minister Saturday in the hope that he can help them hunt down other militant leaders, security officials said.
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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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In its largest offensive yet, thousands of NATO troops moved Tuesday into the mountains of southern Afghanistan where hundreds of hardcore Taliban insurgents hold sway &#151; an operation in the world's biggest opium-producing region aimed at winning over a population long supportive of militant fighters.
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Commanders are arming groups that have promised to fight militants who have been their allies in the past.
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President Karzai's rival gains ground by appealing to Afghanistan's former anti-Soviet resistance fighters.
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Britain lobbied U.N. officials on Thursday with a proposal for the world body to lead a comprehensive "campaign plan" for peace in Afghanistan, where NATO-led troops are struggling against Taliban insurgents.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Islamist Taliban militia will have to be involved in the country&#39;s peace process, Defence Minister Des Browne told delegates at the Labour Party conference.
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Countries with troops in southern Afghanistan will discuss on Friday how to tackle rising violence by Taliban insurgents and mounting U.S. calls for bigger contributions to NATO's Afghan mission.
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NATO's top commander on Thursday urged allied nations to send reinforcements to southern Afghanistan, where resurgent Taliban militants are inflicting heavy casualties on foreign forces and have captured a remote town for the second time in two months.