'Taleban held' after hotel attack
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Afghan authorities say they have arrested one of the Taleban attackers who stormed a top Kabul hotel.
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An explosion went off Monday at a luxury hotel frequented by foreigners, reverberating throughout Kabul, police 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 -- NATO troops in Afghanistan have detained a man at Kabul airport who had traces of explosives on his hands, a day after a US security firm was bombed, killing 10 people, including three Americans.
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KABUL - Taleban-linked militants threatening to kill three UN hostages are accusing the United States of hampering their release, although an Afghan official says a ransom demand is the main stumbling block.
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Six people were killed and six wounded, including two foreign nationals, in an attack that included a suicide bombing at the main luxury hotel in Kabul Monday, Afghanistan's interior ministry said.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces arrested a suspected bomb expert and five other terror suspects Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan, as NATO forces in the south fought Taliban militants in the second day of the alliance's largest-ever offensive in Afghanistan.
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Taleban rebels capture a district in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar after days of fierce fighting.
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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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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.
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At least six people were killed and six others injured in a Taliban militant attack on the main luxury hotel in Kabul on Monday while the Norwegian foreign minister was inside, officials said.
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Suspected Taliban suicide bombers killed four people in an attack on Monday on a luxury hotel in Kabul where the Norwegian foreign minister was staying, Afghan officials said.
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The Taleban are changing their focus to attack the Afghan capital Kabul, a spokesman for the group says.
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Police detained a Turkish Airlines employee on Tuesday after he released a woman he had been holding hostage with a gun at the company's headquarters, a company spokeswoman told Reuters.
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Afghan security forces arrested four men after Taliban attackers disguised as police stormed Kabul's top hotel and killed seven people, including at least three foreigners, officials said Tuesday.
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Authorities said that three Americans and one French woman may have been among the six killed in a suicide bomb attack at a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital.
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Nato-led forces in Afghanistan say they have killed more Taleban, as generals discuss boosting forces there.