Taliban's rule book includes when to kill teachers
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This is the time of year that fighting traditionally tapers off in Afghanistan as winter sets in, so it's probably not too surprising that the Taliban's latest offensive is on the propaganda front.
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KABUL : The deadline set by a Taliban splinter group to execute three foreign UN election workers it claims to be holding captive passed overnight with no word on their fate.
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Â·  Taliban says it was behind attack on police teachers  Â·  Blast heralds rise in Iraq-style insurgency tactics
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border have vowed to launch attacks on Pakistani forces after scrapping a 10-month-old peace deal with the government.
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A Taliban splinter group that has  threatened to kill three U.N. hostages again extended a  deadline on its demands after the government said it would  respond to them on Wednesday, a spokesman for the group said on  Tuesday.
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Reclusive Taliban leader Mullah  Mohammad Omar told an American diplomat in a rare conversation  that the August 1998 U.S. strikes against Afghanistan would  lead to increased terrorism, according to a recently  declassified document released on Friday.
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The number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks has tripled in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia, Afghanistan's education minister says.
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Islamabad and Kabul must stop playing   blame games in the battle against the resurgent Taliban and   work together to crush the group on both sides of the border,   Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 22 -- Insurgents ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in the country's volatile south Friday, killing 19 of the laborers, and Afghan and NATO forces said they killed 35 Taliban guerrillas in two firefights.
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Taliban militants threatened Friday to kill a group of abducted South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan. South Korea said Saturday it plans to withdraw its forces by the end of this year as scheduled.
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The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed.
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A senior NATO official likened the tactics of Taliban militants who hide among civilians to those of Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday. U.S. and Afghan forces killed an al-Qaida suspect disguised as a woman during a raid.
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A Pakistani Taliban commander blamed for the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto has declared an indefinite ceasefire with government forces, a militant spokesman said Wednesday.
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Taliban militants declared a cease-fire Wednesday in fighting with Pakistani forces, and the government said it was preparing for peace talks with al-Qaida-linked extremists in the lawless tribal area near the border with Afghanistan.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Taliban kidnappers shot dead a South Korean hostage and threatened to kill 22 others unless their demands were met by 2030 GMT (4.30 p.m. ET) on Wednesday, a Taliban spokesman said.
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he number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks has tripled in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia
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6 December 2004 -- Remnants of the ousted Taliban regime have threatened to launch attacks during the swearing in of Afghan President-elect Hamid Karzai.