US, Afghan Forces Search for Hostages
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US and Afghan forces seeking three kidnapped UN workers raided two houses in downtown Kabul on Monday, smashing through walls and doors to detain 10 people and question
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Negotiations over three kidnapped UN workers in Afghanistan have hit a snag over ransom demands, officials said Tuesday, as Taliban-linked militants said they were
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US and Afghan troops have killed a Taliban commander and detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters in a major search operation after a gun battle in southern Afghanistan.
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Two foreigners from the Red Cross who helped free a group of South Korean captives last month have been kidnapped in Afghanistan after talking with militants about the release of a German hostage, officials said Thursday.
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The United States has released 11 Afghans held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on suspicion of Taliban links after a request from President Hamid Karzai, an Afghan official said on Wednesday.
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US and Afghan soldiers detained 22 suspected Taliban members in a major search operation after a gun-fight in a southern Afghan mountain range, officials said yesterday.
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The United Nations again appealed for the safe return of three of its workers held hostage in Afghanistan on Thursday, three weeks after they were snatched from their car on a busy street in central Kabul.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-- Afghan security forces surrounded the location where Taliban fighters are suspected to be holding 23 South Korean hostages yesterday and were prepared to launch an operation if negotiations broke down, officials said.
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A search is under way for a civilian helicopter that went missing in bad weather on Saturday while ferrying supplies for foreign forces in southern Afghanistan.
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Conflicting reports of ransom demands, rescues and deaths cloud the search for a group of abducted Western security contractors
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Thousands of American, Afghan and Pakistani soldiers are hunting for Osama bin Laden and "sooner or later we will get him," a senior U.S. envoy said Tuesday.
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Afghan and coalition forces have kept up a hunt for rebels who briefly captured two southern districts last week, killing 13 Taliban in the latest strikes.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The US military said a plane that took off from the main US base north of Kabul, Afghanistan, is missing. A search is under way for the three civilian crew members and three military passengers who were aboard the aircraft.
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Efforts to free three foreign hostages threatened with death by a Taliban splinter group have reached a "sensitive" stage, the U.S. military said Saturday in urging the kidnappers not to harm them.
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Afghan and NATO forces launched a ground and air search operation Friday for an Afghan passenger jet carrying 104 people that disappeared from radar screens during a snowstorm near the mountain-ringed capital. Three Americans were believed to have been on board.
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Afghan police have arrested three suspects in the kidnapping of a Briton and two other foreign election workers and are concentrating their search for the victims in a valley north of Kabul, a government source says.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan. 26 -- Gunmen kidnapped an American aid worker and her driver in southern Afghanistan's largest city early Saturday, seizing the woman from a residential neighborhood as she was on her way to work.