Body of Turk Engineer Found in Afghanistan
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The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan - a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road project - ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldn&#39;t slow them down with police hot on their trail.
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A man suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody last week and authorities are investigating whether he was tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A senior commander from  Afghanistan's Taliban militia previously held at a U.S. base in  Guantanamo Bay was killed by Afghan forces in the central  province of Uruzgan, a senior official said on Sunday.
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A UK soldier killed in Afghanistan is named as Corporal Darryl Gardiner, from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani military plane left for China yesterday carrying the body of a Chinese engineer who was kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked militants and then killed during an attempt to rescue him and another hostage.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan's Taliban movement has freed four local health ministry officials in exchange for the remains of its slain commander, Mullah Dadullah, a purported Taliban spokesman said on Thursday. Western and Afghan forces killed Dadullah in a clash last month, dealing a heavy blow to the Islamist insurgents, and his body was buried in an undisclosed location in southern Kandahar province, scene of some of the heaviest fighting this year.
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A British soldier was killed Sunday and four others injured in an explosion in Afghanistan&#39;s restive southern Helmand province, the defence ministry said.
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The US military has confirmed that a suspected Taleban commander killed in Afghanistan at the weekend had been held at Guantanamo Bay but was freed.
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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.
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Soldiers in Pakistan say they have found the body of tribal leader Akbar Bugti, five days after the assault on his cave.
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A British serviceman has been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirms.
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A British soldier serving with the NATO force in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has died in an accident at a military base there, the Ministry of Defence in London told AFP.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Dec. 30 -- An Afghan detainee and alleged member of the Taliban died in custody Sunday after an illness at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 14 -- A Turkish engineer and two Afghans were apparently kidnapped Tuesday in an area of eastern Afghanistan where bandits and insurgents from the Taliban and other Islamic extremist groups operate, officials said.
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Suspected Islamic militants captured and beheaded an Afghan teacher whom they accused of being a spy for the United States, an official said Wednesday. The man's body was found early Tuesday in a large sack dumped by a road near Jandola, a town in the South Waziristan tribal district, the local security official said. He asked not to be identified due to the sensitive nature of his job.
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KABUL, 15 December (IRIN) - A Turkish road construction engineer was killed after he was kidnapped by a group of terrorists as he travelled with his translator and driver on the Jalalabad-Kunar road in eastern Afghanistan, the interior ministry confirmed
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Police detained five men Friday in connection with the killing of a German aid worker in northern Afghanistan, officials said. The five were detained in the province of Sari Pul, where Dieter Ruebling, 65, worked for aid group German Agro Action, said police spokesman Zemrai Bashary.