Locals flee town as Taliban dig in for NATO clash
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - More than 1,000 villagers have fled a southern Afghan town as Taliban fighters dig in to repel NATO efforts to drive them out, residents and officials said on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of Pakistani troops took up positions in two northwest towns bordering Afghanistan amid reports of an offensive by Afghan forces, officials and residents said.
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Mortar fire forced scores of Somalis to flee their homes in escalating violence in the capital Mogadishu on Friday, doctors and residents said.
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The southern Afghan district of Musa Qala was under the control of the Taliban overnight, the Afghan defence ministry has said as NATO-led forces said the situation was still unclear.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Residents of a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan said on Sunday dozens of civilians including women and children had been killed in aerial bombing.
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Thousands of Pakistanis are  fleeing a tense northwestern town and outlying villages amid  fears of a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist  militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Tuesday called on foreign forces to withdraw from Afghanistan and taunted NATO about its capture of the southern town of Musa Qala, saying celebrating such a small victory only showed its weakness.
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NATO and Afghan government troops have   forced Taliban insurgents out of a southern Afghan district   after a two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of   militants were killed.
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Taliban militants remain in control of a southern Afghan town nearly a week after capturing it, but NATO expects the Afghan government to soon reassert its authority there, an alliance spokesman said Wednesday.
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Around 300 Taliban insurgents captured a remote district in western Afghanistan after storming its small capital and forcing out government forces, a provincial governor said.
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A brazen attack by hundreds of Taliban militants on an isolated town had been building for days, a coalition spokesman said Friday, after a wave of violence in southern Afghanistan left around 100 dead.
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NATO and Afghan government forces have   forced Taliban troops out of a southern Afghan district after a   two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of militants   were killed.
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Islamabad, Pakistan, March 6 -- NATO and Afghan forces launched what commanders described as a major operation in a key province of southern Afghanistan Tuesday morning, part of a bid to win back territory that has become a haven for insurgents.
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SWAT, Pakistan - Hundreds of civilians used a cease-fire yesterday between government forces and militant supporters of a pro-Taliban cleric to flee a scenic valley where fighting has killed more than 100 people.
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More than 20 suspected Taliban drowned in a river in southern Afghanistan while fleeing a joint Afghan and NATO attack, an Afghan official said Tuesday.
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ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan - Afghan civilians piled belongings onto trucks yesterday and fled two villages infiltrated by hundreds of Taliban militants. US, Canadian, and Afghan troops had about 250 of the insurgents surrounded.
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Worn down by thousands of rockets fired from the nearby Gaza Strip, an estimated one-seventh of the people of this Israeli town have fled. Many more say they would go if they could. The mayor says life here has become "impossible."