Wanted Taliban leader killed in raid
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A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said, citing ground commanders.
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More than 100 Taliban fighters raid police compound in western Afghanistan, killing two policemen, an official said.
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Afghan security forces backed by US helicopter gunships stormed a Taliban safe house, killing one man and capturing 15 others, in an attempt to curb attacks ahead of this weekâs presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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A senior Taliban commander involved in the abduction of 23 South Korean missionaries was among dozens of insurgents killed in clashes in southern Afghanistan overnight, police said on Tuesday.
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A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers after a police rescue operation ended in tragedy, interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told AFP.
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Taliban guerrillas said  on Tuesday they had killed a Turk kidnapped last month after  the Turkish construction company he worked for ignored an  ultimatum to leave Afghanistan.
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Afghan soldiers killed a senior Taliban commander and two fighters during an ambush in a central province where clashes with coalition forces are escalating.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 -- The Taliban carried out an apparent attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, firing rockets that missed him by several hundred yards as he spoke to a group of elders.
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Afghanistan&#39;s Taliban movement said on  Saturday it had killed one of the two German hostages it was  holding after the end of its deadline, and would kill the other  in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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An elite Pakistani army commander was killed Sunday while leading an operation to demolish the perimeter walls of a mosque where an Islamic cleric and his followers have barricaded themselves for the past week.
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US forces raided a suspected Taliban hideout in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing two fighters and capturing at least one more, officials said. The hourlong battle occurred in Dewalak, a village in Zabul Province along the Pakistani border, said Khial Mohammed, the provincial governor. US troops attacked after surrounding the village and coming under fire from the rebels, he said. The ...
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A senior Islamic militant, wanted by the US government, has been killed in a clash with the Philippine military in the nation's restive south, an official said Sunday.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan's Taliban movement has freed four local health ministry officials in exchange for the remains of its slain commander, Mullah Dadullah, a purported Taliban spokesman said on Thursday. Western and Afghan forces killed Dadullah in a clash last month, dealing a heavy blow to the Islamist insurgents, and his body was buried in an undisclosed location in southern Kandahar province, scene of some of the heaviest fighting this year.
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Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of the two German hostages it was holding after the end of its deadline, and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met.
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Pakistani security forces on Monday shot and wounded a well-known Taliban operative in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border, the military said.
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Several Taliban fighters were killed on Monday in an attack targeting a senior guerrilla leader closely linked to the Islamist movement's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior security official and Taliban sources said late Thursday