More Arab militants join fight in Afghanistan
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- Arab Islamic radicals who fled Afghanistan in the US-led invasion are coming back, eager to support suicide bombers in their increasingly frequent and effective attacks on Western and Afghan forces.
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JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza StriP -- Israeli aircraft struck more targets in the Gaza Strip yesterday as the army massed an armoured force in apparent preparation for a major military operation against militants in Jebaliya, the Palestinians&#39; biggest
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- As NATO troops exert pressure on Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, militants have regrouped in western provinces and ignited violence that has killed a dozen people in two days, officials said yesterday.
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Arab governments will make more progress fighting home-grown terrorist groups if security agencies across the region work together and share information, officials at a security conference said on Thursday.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- US troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters, in southern Afghanistan, the military said Monday -- the latest bloodshed ahead of historic Afghan elections.
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Taliban militants kidnapped about 20 Arabs and Afghans in western Afghanistan and were holding six captive, while a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives next to a NATO convoy, wounding a soldier, officials said Tuesday.
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Afghanistan welcomed on Thursday U.S. plans to send an extra 3,000 troops to fight the Taliban insurgency, but Washington's move highlights divisions between Western allies over how much to commit to the country.
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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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KABUL -- US troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters in southern Afghanistan, the military said yesterday, in the latest bloodshed ahead of historic Afghan elections.
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The US military in Afghanistan says US-led coalition forces have killed at least 22 insurgents, including several Arabs, during a clash in southern Zabul province.
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NATO countries are sending thousands more troops to Afghanistan to help battle a surprisingly violent Taliban resurgence in the south -- the alliance's first test in ground combat for "a long, long time," NATO's top commander said yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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U.S.-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.
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A video apparently showing three foreign election workers kidnapped in Afghanistan was shown Sunday on Arab television. The video was the firmest evidence yet that the three are in the hands of a Taliban splinter
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Nato-led forces say they have killed more Taleban in Afghanistan, as Nato chiefs discuss boosting forces in the country.
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Several Arab fighters were among four  militants killed and others captured in raids by U.S.-led  forces on al Qaeda-linked compounds in eastern Afghanistan at  the weekend, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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Militants attacked a military base near the Afghan border Thursday, sparking a battle that drew in army helicopters and left about 50 insurgents and two soldiers dead, the army said.