Taliban Say Attack Shows They Can Strike at Will
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A rocket attack aimed at Kabul's  international airport showed the Taliban have the ability to  target anywhere in Afghanistan, the group said on Friday,  warning the Americans the country would become their "burial  ground."
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Attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan surged last year, according to previously unpublished figures from allied military forces fighting insurgents
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Key allies in the war   against Afghanistan's Taliban militants pledged to stay the   course on Tuesday as a suicide bomber killed 18 in the south   and a blast killed an Italian NATO soldier.
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Pakistani villagers said gunship  helicopters launched strikes on Sunday in an area regarded as a  stronghold of a Taliban commander linked with the assassination  of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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A senior U.S. military commander said on Wednesday he did not expect the Taliban to mount a major offensive in eastern Afghanistan this spring, but experts warned of rising violence and a stronger insurgency.
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The attack appeared to be a well-organized strike on areas controlled by the Mahdi Army, a powerful Shiite militia.
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Al Qaeda and the Taliban appear stronger in the region than at any time since the U.S. invasion.
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The deadly attack shows the tenacity of militants as they consistently and lethally target military installations.
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NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants Tuesday in a volatile southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have amassed.
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Taliban and NATO troops fought battles in southern Afghanistan on Thursday as the alliance pressed ahead with its biggest offensive to quash the insurgents.
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WANA, Aug 21: Fighter planes and helicopter gunships carried out strikes on militants&#39; positions in South Waziristan on Saturday.
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QALAT, Afghanistan -- Malik Ali Mahmad and his small security team were on high alert last Tuesday night. They had recently been sent to establish a government outpost in an isolated, Taliban-plagued district, Khaki Afghan, and there were rumors that the Islamic militia was planning a retaliatory raid.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 30 -- In an audacious display of force, Taliban fighters on Thursday ambushed a convoy of military vehicles in a remote tribal area and took more than 100 Pakistani troops hostage, local officials said.
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U.S. planes struck a militant stronghold that has recently been coordinating attacks against coalition forces.
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Taliban militants in Afghanistan will step up their attacks on Canadian troops this year, using a combination of suicide bombers, roadside bombs and ambushes, the country's top soldier predicted on Wednesday.
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