Afghan police say kill Taliban hostage-taker
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A senior Taliban commander involved in the abduction of 23 South Korean missionaries was among dozens of insurgents killed in clashes in southern Afghanistan overnight, police said on Tuesday.
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Afghan and US-led forces killed 36 Taliban militants in several hours of fighting in southern Afghanistan Thursday, while an Afghan policeman also died, officials said.
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Taliban insurgents stopped a bus in Afghanistan and kidnapped some of the passengers, including Korean citizens, a local police chief said on Friday.
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Suspected Taliban militants attacked a police patrol in eastern Afghanistan, killing three officers and wounding another, while U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed several militants in the south, an official said Friday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A purported Taliban spokesman said yesterday that the Islamic militia had killed two German hostages, a statement disputed by both Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 captive South Koreans for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
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A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said, citing ground commanders.
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Afghan police shot dead a suspected suicide bomber in the southern province of Helmand, a NATO spokesman said on Thursday, amid fears of a surge in violence during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
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Taliban militants have killed three policemen and kidnapped three others after they attacked a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.
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A Taliban leader has been killed in Afghanistan, the country's government said today, as the deaths of a British soldier and a civilian translator were confirmed after an explosion in the country's south.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - NATO forces killed a Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan on Sunday during an offensive to retake a town from the militants, residents said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Taliban guerrillas killed 10 policemen on Sunday in a raid in southern Afghanistan, provincial officials said.
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A NATO patrol shot and killed a policeman Tuesday as troops left their base in an insurgency-wracked district in southern Afghanistan, NATO said. The policeman, armed and wearing civilian clothes, turned toward the patrol and was gunned down, mistaken for an insurgent, NATO said in a statement.
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Officials in Afghanistan say security forces have killed a senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan. Government officials say Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar and two followers died in a gunbattle late Saturday in a village in the central province of Uruzgan.
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Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative, wanted for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, during a four-hour shootout Sunday at a southern Pakistan house, the information minister said. At least two other men were arrested.
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police on Tuesday killed a suspected gang leader wanted in the kidnap-slaying of a French businessman.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban kidnappers shot dead a South Korean hostage and threatened to kill 22 others unless their demands were met by 2030 GMT (4.30 p.m. ET) on Wednesday, a Taliban spokesman said.
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Paramilitary police killed a suspected top al-Qaida operative Sunday in a four-hour gunbattle at a house in southern Pakistan that also led to the arrest of two other men, the information minister said.