Taliban adopting Iraq-style jihad
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A Taliban militant warns that his movement is more sophisticated - and more brutal - than before.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban movement suffered a serious psychological and military setback after failing to disrupt Afghanistan's presidential election last month, but the radical Islamic militia still poses a formidable military threat, and one faction has begun carrying out daring, al Qaeda-style urban terrorist attacks, according to Afghan and foreign analysts.
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BAGHDAD, July 17 -- Shiite and Kurdish officials expressed deep reservations on Sunday about the new U.S. military strategy of partnering with Sunni Arab groups to help defeat the militant organization al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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The Ansar al-Sunnah Army, which claimed the responsibility for Sunday's blast, is believed to be a fundamentalist group that wants to turn Iraq into an Islamic state like Afghanistan's former Taliban regime.
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Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant who has become a leader in the Iraq insurgency, is using his role to become a major figure in the broader Islamic jihad movement, senior counterterrorist and intelligence experts say.
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The most feared militant group in Iraq, led by terror mastermind Abu Musab Zarqawi, declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden yesterday, saying it had agreed with al Qaeda over strategy and the need for unity against &quot;the enemies of Islam
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Analysis: The Iraq Study Group's proposals contain much to like -- for Shi'ite sectarians and al-Qaeda in Iraq
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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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Flushed out of Fallujah, Iraqi insurgents are adopting deadly new tactics in big urban areas
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The three devastating bombings today signify a clear escalation in the TalibanÂs violent tactics.
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A look at the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad:
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Insurgents are now using unwitting kidnap victims as suicide bombers _ seizing them, booby-trapping their cars without their knowledge, then releasing them only to blow up the vehicles by remote control, the ...Comment
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BAGHDAD, Iraq A newly released video shows three militants describing their plans to carry out last week&#39;s suicide bombing on the US military base in Mosul, Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, July 11 -- U.S. military officials on Wednesday said they expected the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq to "lash out and stage spectacular attacks" and fuel sectarian violence in response to an ongoing U.S. offensive north of Baghdad.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- In 2002, Ibrar Hussein voted for an Islamic takeover.
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Taliban insurgents carried out 103 suicide bombings in Afghanistan in the first eight months of 2007, a 69 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a United Nations report.
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Islamic militants are flouting a recent peace deal and fortifying alliances with Al Qaeda and foreign fighters, creating a virtual Taliban mini-state.