US cites Taliban rift in sabotage failure
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has fallen out with some of his lieutenants, who blame him for the rebels' failure to disrupt the landmark Afghan presidential election, the US military said yesterday.
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Concerns grow over inadequate US military intelligence about Taliban and Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan
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The brother of Ken Bigley, the British hostage held in Iraq, says the US has "sabotaged" his possible release.
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ÂReturn of the Taliban,Â on Frontline Tuesday, examines why the United States appears to be losing ground against Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
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U.S.-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday in ground clashes and airstrikes that left over 100 militants dead, the coalition said.
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The United Nations and European Union were trying to settle a "misunderstanding" that led Kabul to order the expulsion of two senior European diplomats after claims they contacted Taliban militants.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A commander of Taliban  guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was  captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed  over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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PARIS, Jan. 16 -- Some of the United States' closest NATO allies expressed anger and astonishment Wednesday at published statements by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates describing their forces as poorly trained for fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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The rise of Taliban resistance in southern Afghanistan reflects the weakness of the government more than a strengthening of the fundamentalist movement that once sheltered Osama bin Laden, the top U.S. commander here said Tuesday.
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Power vacuums in areas of southern   Afghanistan where the government has little presence have   contributed to rising Taliban violence more than three years   into the U.S.-led war, a senior U.S. commander said on Tuesday.
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Officials of the U.S.-led coalition lauded Afghan security forces Friday for repulsing Taliban militants in fierce fighting, but raised doubts over Afghan claims that a captured man might be a top rebel leader.
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American forces on Afghanistan's eastern border routinely fire upon and pursue Taliban enemies into Pakistan, defense officials told Congress on Thursday, offering the most detailed description to date of U.S. action in that region.
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The United States expressed concern Thursday that the international community could abandon Afghanistan, cautioning that success in the insurgency-wracked nation was "not assured."
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Afghan authorities investigate the circumstances of a militant attack on US forces in which eight civilians died
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan  - Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in Pakistan for talks on how to defeat the Taliban, said on Monday the United States would not repeat the mistake of letting extremists take control of Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON -- The US military acknowledged yesterday that it had considered bombing a group of more than 100 Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, but that it decided not to after determining the insurgents were on the grounds of a cemetery.
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A failed rocket attack on a US helicopter carrying President Hamid Karzai was carried out by a self-confessed Taliban commando, Afghanistan&#39;s top law-enforcer said Saturday.