New Taliban sanctuary feared in Afghanistan
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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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AHMAD KHAN VILLAGE, Afghanistan  - Standing on a parched plain flanked by rugged mountains near Kabul, you don't have to look far to see the dangers.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 22 -- Afghan security forces on Sunday surrounded the location where Taliban fighters are suspected to be holding 23 South Korean hostages and were prepared to launch an operation if negotiations broke down, Afghan officials said.
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Convincing Afghans to oppose the Taliban depends on fulfilling promises of aid and reconstruction.
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The United States said it was concerned over safe havens being established by Islamic militants in northern Pakistan's tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
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The Taliban said Tuesday that its suicide bombers would attack restaurants where Westerners eat in Kabul, an ominous new threat that forced American and European workers to restrict outings in the Afghan capital.
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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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Worsening security is pushing Afghanistan towards a crisis, the country's main opposition group said on Thursday, days after a deadly Taliban raid near the presidential palace.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Police fled a town in western Afghanistan yesterday and suspected Taliban militants briefly moved in -- the second time in a month that the government has lost control of a district in the area.
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The Taliban threatened Monday to launch  attacks during the swearing in of Afghan President Hamid Karzai  while the U.S. military said every precaution was being taken  to protect a ceremony to be attended by top U.S. officials.
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The Taliban has launched a new operation targeting government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, a spokesman said Sunday, as two policemen died in an ambush in the volatile south.
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âLifting the Veil,â reported by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, returns to Afghanistan to see if things have changed since the Taliban were overthrown.
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Taliban opposition to NATO forces in  Afghanistan is far tougher than expected when alliance troops  were initially deployed to aid reconstruction, British Defense  Minister Des Browne will say on Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hamid Karzai's inauguration as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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Tracing the elusive footsteps of the Taliban's Supreme Leaderâand bracing for what may be their bloodiest drive yet
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Taliban groups based in Pakistan could pose significant international terrorism threat, analysts at a leading thinktank warn
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The southern Afghan district of Musa Qala was under the control of the Taliban overnight, the Afghan defence ministry has said as NATO-led forces said the situation was still unclear.