Afghan captors free Pakistani troops
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Pro-Taliban group has released more than 260 kidnapped soldiers, security officials say.
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Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan have been freed unharmed, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul.
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Three more South Korean hostages are freed in Afghanistan, leaving four remaining in Taleban hands.
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Pakistani commandos stormed the hideout of Islamic militants in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, freeing one Chinese hostage and killing five of the kidnappers, government officials said.
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Three UN workers who were held hostage in Afghanistan for more than three weeks are apparently unharmed after being released Tuesday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s hardline Taliban movement freed the last of its 19 South Korean hostages late Thursday bringing an end to the six-week kidnapping drama.
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CHAGMALAI, Pakistan - One of two Chinese engineers abducted near the Afghan border was free on Friday but his colleague was dead after Pakistani commandos attacked the kidnappers, killing all five of the Al Qaeda -linked militants from a cell led by a
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PUL-I-CHARKI, Afghanistan  - Hundreds of  Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taliban against U.S-led  forces after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States  were released from an Afghan jail Sunday after nearly three  years as prisoners of war.
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Hardline clerics at a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital free two policemen taken hostage last week.
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KHOST, Afghanistan  - Gunmen on Monday freed 10 of 13 Afghan deminers abducted last week and the remaining three will be released soon, officials said.
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Two Italian soldiers kidnapped in Afghanistan were freed on Monday during a raid by NATO-led troops, officials said.
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At least 10 Afghans, including a nomad leader who fought with the Taliban, have been released from a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Wednesday.
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KABUL -- Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages said yesterday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives. Afghan state television reported that President Hamid Karzai had decreed the release of prisoners for Eid, the end of the Muslim fasting month, expected on Sunday. But there was no ...
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Pakistani troops say they have cleared foreign militants from large parts of the troubled region of South Waziristan.
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Three U.N. workers kidnapped in Afghanistan four weeks ago were released unharmed Tuesday, a day after a string of raids by U.S. and Afghan security forces.
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Hundreds of Pakistanis jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban were released from an Afghan prison Sunday &#151; a major gesture meant to better strained relations between the neighboring countries.
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The Pakistani military says it has knocked out several militant bases in the Afghan border region.