Afghan Forces Arrest 2 Taliban Leaders
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An official said the capture of the security chief, Toor Naqibullah Khan, could help U.S. and Afghan forces track down Omar, one of the most wanted fugitives since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
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US and Afghan troops detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters during a major search operation after a gunbattle in a southern Afghan mountain range, officials said Saturday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec 14 -- Afghan forces have captured two top figures of the deposed Taliban government, including the personal security chief of leader Mohammad Omar, provincial officials said Tuesday.
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Afghan security forces have arrested two  men with al Qaeda links suspected of carrying out a car bomb  attack that killed about 10 people, including three Americans,  in Kabul in August, state-run television reported on Saturday.
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Sri Lankan troops arrest two suspected militants after a shootout in the central province of Polonnaruwa.
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Afghan security forces captured  Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief  on a bus to Kandahar, an Afghan security official in the  southern city told Reuters Tuesday.
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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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Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners holed up in Kabul&#39;s Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak.
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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.
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Afghan authorities arrested 60 Taliban  guerrillas who were planning to derail the upcoming  presidential election, officials said Saturday, as campaigning  intensified for the poll in a week's time.
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Two senior political officers were accused of threatening national security after reportedly talking to the Taliban.
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Two top leaders of the Basque separatist group ETA were arrested Sunday along with 19 other group members in a joint French-Spanish raid in southwest France, Spain's police authorities said.
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Pakistani forces captured and wounded a top Taliban commander Monday, while Islamabad's ambassador to Afghanistan was feared abducted in a troubled tribal border region, officials said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan security forces  have captured Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal  security chief as he traveled in a van to the southern city of  Kandahar, provincial officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Pakistani security forces captured the former Taliban defense minister, Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday, in what would be the highest-ranking leader from the Afghan insurgency to be arrested since it lost power in 2001.
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U.S. and Afghan soldiers conducting a sweep in southern Zabul province arrested 10 suspected Taliban after a firefight in a forbidding mountain area, the governor said Saturday.
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Pakistan arrested a former Taliban defense minister regarded as a top figure in the Afghan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, considered a key associate of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is the most senior leader from the hard-line militia to be arrested since U.S.-led troops ousted it from power in 2001.