Afghans flee town as Taliban dig in for NATO raid
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - More than 1,000 villagers have fled a southern Afghan town as Taliban fighters dig in to repel NATO efforts to drive them out, residents and officials said on Wednesday.
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Afghanistan's security forces supported by NATO-led troops will "very soon" launch an operation to clear the southern Afghan town overrun and controlled by Taliban militants, an Afghan official said Saturday.
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Warplanes and artillery pounded Taliban fighters hiding in orchards Sunday during a big Afghan-NATO offensive that the alliance said killed more than 200 militants in its first two days. Four Canadian soldiers also were killed.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- As NATO troops exert pressure on Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, militants have regrouped in western provinces and ignited violence that has killed a dozen people in two days, officials said yesterday.
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The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Forces on Saturday said troops will "kick the Taliban out and defeat them" after Taliban forces took control in the southern Afghan district of Musa Qala overnight, shouldering out a locally raised force of auxiliary police loyal to the Afghan government.
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NATO forces launched a new military operation Wednesday in Afghanistan's most violent southern province, while the alliance said it was investigating a shipment of weapons intercepted near the border with Iran this month.
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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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KABUL -- Hundreds of villagers fled a southern Afghan town yesterday overrun by Taliban militants, fearful of a NATO attack on the insurgent fighters , residents said. General David Richards, NATO's outgoing commander, said "very surgical and deliberate" force would be used to evict the fighters from Musa Qala, where he said the alliance's strategy of avoiding military action has ...
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Over the past six weeks, the Taliban have driven government forces out of roughly half of a strategic area that American and NATO officials declared a success story last fall.
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British and Afghan forces battled Taliban holdouts Thursday after repelling a brazen insurgent attack on a police headquarters a day earlier in a southern town, killing at least 19 militants, a local official said.
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Islamabad, Pakistan, March 6 -- NATO and Afghan forces launched what commanders described as a major operation in a key province of southern Afghanistan Tuesday morning, part of a bid to win back territory that has become a haven for insurgents.
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Thousands of Pakistanis are  fleeing a tense northwestern town and outlying villages amid  fears of a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist  militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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More than 20 suspected Taliban drowned in a river in southern Afghanistan while fleeing a joint Afghan and NATO attack, an Afghan official said Tuesday.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing a tense northwestern town and outlying villages amid fears of a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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In its largest offensive yet, thousands of NATO troops moved Tuesday into the mountains of southern Afghanistan where hundreds of hardcore Taliban insurgents hold sway &#151; an operation in the world's biggest opium-producing region aimed at winning over a population long supportive of militant fighters.
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Afghan troops on Tuesday prepared to deploy to a town in southern Afghanistan that one official said had been overrun by Pakistani militants.
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People in Musa Qala say many civilians died in an operation to re-take the Afghan town from the Taleban.