Taliban seize 18 Afghan mine clearing experts
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Taliban fighters have seized 18 Afghan mine clearing experts and threatened to kill them if investigations suggest they are working for U.S.-led forces in the country, officials and the insurgents said on Sunday.
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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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Taliban insurgents have kidnapped two foreign officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Afghan province of Wardak, the provincial police chief said on Thursday.
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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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International and Afghan forces killed a dozen Taliban overnight including a commander involved in the July kidnapping of 23 South Koreans, a provincial police chief said Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of Taliban militants overran a southern Afghan town that British troops had left after a contentious peace agreement in October, destroying the government center and temporarily holding elders hostage, officials and residents said yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Information from a man caught in a vehicle loaded with explosives led to the arrests of two senior Taliban military commanders, including a former security chief of the hard-line regime's leader, Mullah Omar, an official said yesterday.
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Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan will free as many as eight of the 19 South Korean Christian volunteers they kidnapped nearly six weeks ago, a representative of the group said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 30 -- In an audacious display of force, Taliban insurgents on Thursday ambushed a convoy of military vehicles in a remote tribal area and took more than 100 Pakistani troops hostage, local officials said.
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The Taliban claimed responsibility for the kidnap of 18 South Korean Christians and two German nationals, and said they would only free the Germans if Berlin withdraws troops from Afghanistan.
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Pro-Taliban group has released more than 260 kidnapped soldiers, security officials say.
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An al-Qaeda-linked Sunni group claimed Friday that it kidnapped 18 government workers and soldiers in retaliation for the alleged rape of a Sunni woman
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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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Afghan guards backed by U.S. helicopter  gunships raided a Taliban safe house, killing one man and  arresting 15, to prevent attacks during this week's  presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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Afghan officials say they have arrested 17 people who had been trained in Pakistan to carry out suicide attacks.
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The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Forces on Saturday said troops will "kick the Taliban out and defeat them" after Taliban forces took control in the southern Afghan district of Musa Qala overnight, shouldering out a locally raised force of auxiliary police loyal to the Afghan government.
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Pakistani forces say they have recaptured an important road tunnel seized by pro-Taleban militants.