Key figure in Taliban believed captured
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan has arrested former Taliban defense minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, regarded as a top figure in the Afghanistan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said today.
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Pakistan has arrested the leader of a Taliban splinter group suspected of masterminding the recent kidnapping of three United Nations workers in neighboring Afghanistan, an official has told CNN.
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A senior Taliban commander was arrested by Pakistani forces as he tried to slip across the Afghan border into Pakistan.
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Mullah Obaidullah is the most important Taliban member to be captured since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
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The US military said it had captured more than five Taliban leaders, and confirmed the death of a rebel commander who was released two years ago from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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U.S.-led coalition forces captured a one-legged militant fighter in a battle this week in southern Afghanistan, and it was possible he could be a top Taliban leader, an Afghan general said Friday.
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U.S. forces have captured a man  described as a senior commander of a militant group linked to  al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Iraqi government said  on Wednesday.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban sources said on Thursday.
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Pakistani forces captured and critically wounded a senior Taliban militant on Monday
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Afghan officials are optimistic that three UN hostages, including a Briton, will be freed unharmed, a government spokesman said. A Taliban splinter group claims it abducted the trio - Annetta Flanigan from
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A German citizen is believed to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
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Afghan security forces yesterday arrested two Taliban commanders, including the former personal security chief of Mullah Omar, the fugitive Taliban chief.
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A man who launched a militant Islamic group to fight US forces in Afghanistan has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of three UN workers there in October, a senior Pakistani Cabinet minister said Saturday.
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The former Taliban commander and chief of the militants in Pakistan&#39;s South Waziristan tribal area, Abdullah Mehsud, has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two Chinese
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Pakistani security forces killed a top figure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and captured four other militants, a military official said.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - The Taliban said on Friday they would free kidnapped Italian reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo if he could prove he was not a spy.
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The body of a slain top Taliban commander was retrieved by his family Thursday, and in exchange militants will release four kidnapped Afghan medical workers, a purported Taliban spokesman said.