Arrests show Taliban a spent force
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Security forces have now picked up 19 Taliban militants since Saturday, including the brother of the former Taliban governor of Kandahar, the religious dictatorship&#39;s stronghold during its years in power.
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Pakistani police said Sunday they had busted a gang of pro-Taliban militants planning major terrorist attacks in the country.
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Police arrested 23 Afghans in raids in the Pakistani border city of Quetta on suspicion of links with Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network, officials said Friday.
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Hundreds of suspected Taliban fighters attacked a remote central Afghan town on Wednesday and occupied a district police headquarters after the battle, driving out security forces, an official said.
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KABUL: US-led and Afghan soldiers arrested two senior Taliban commanders and six militants in an operation in south-central Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.
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Mullah Obeidullah is the most important Taliban member to be arrested since the invasion of Afghanistan by American forces in 2001.
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Â· Army paralysed by Taliban threat, says ex-CIA agentÂ· Retired officers accused of helping militants
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Afghan police arrested nine people accused of arranging suicide bombings, and separately detained 12 Taliban militants suspected of planning attacks, officials said.
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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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Several key aides to Afghanistan's Taleban leader Mullah Omar are reportedly arrested in Pakistan.
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Afghan intelligence agents backed by international peacekeeping troops have arrested 60 people, with &quot;reported ties&quot; to the Taliban, according to a spokesman for the peacekeepers .
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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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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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The military is toughening a new jailhouse for suspected al-Qaida and Taliban militants to protect guards after a spate of attacks and evidence that detainees have organized themselves into groups to mount uprisings, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD: Twenty-five people were arrested in raids at Afghan slums on the outskirts of Islamabad on Sunday and illegal weapons were seized from them, police said.
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The Taliban said on Tuesday they had captured a Briton and two Afghans in the southern province of Helmand, a major drug producer, but gave no further details.
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Pro-Taliban group has released more than 260 kidnapped soldiers, security officials say.