Afghan soldiers storm jail to end standoff with inmates
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison Friday in an assault aimed at ending a standoff sparked by a bloody escape attempt by four
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Afghan soldiers and police overran a hideout where a large group of suspected Taliban were preparing to disrupt upcoming presidential elections, prompting a three-hour firefight that left seven insurgents dead, officials said Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- US and Afghan soldiers detained 22 suspected Taliban members in a major search operation after a gun-fight in a southern Afghan mountain range, officials said yesterday.
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Pakistani forces launched an operation on Tuesday to clear militants from a mosque compound after talks to end a week-long standoff broke down, the military said.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan have freed 81 Taliban prisoners from a jail at the Bagram air base, north of the capital Kabul, the Afghan chief justice said on Sunday.
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Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison in a hail of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades Friday, ending a 10-hour standoff that began when five inmates once suspected of belonging to al-Qaida tried to escape. Four inmates and four guards were killed in the day's violence.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistanâs army backed by artillery and helicopter gunships demolished some âterrorist hideoutsâ in a major offensive against foreign militants but failed to capture a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of targeting security forces
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KABUL (BBC) -- Afghan troops have stormed the main jail in the capital, Kabul, after an escape bid by inmates escalated into a day-long siege that left several dead.
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A standoff with 11 inmates at a maximum-security jail escalated into violence Friday, wounding two guards and the inmates as a SWAT team used tear gas and pepper spray.
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Two inmates and at least three prison guards die in an attempted jailbreak in the Afghan capital, the jail authorities say.
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KABUL, Sept. 19 -- NATO and Afghan forces launched what officials called a "major military operation" against the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand, a haven for opium poppy cultivation and an insurgent stronghold that is considered Afghanistan's most violent territory.
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Two al-Qaeda suspects and five prison guards die in a jailbreak attempt in Kabul, Afghan authorities say.
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Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners  holed up in Kabul's Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a  day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified  as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak.
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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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Pakistani security forces say they have knocked out several militant bases in the latest phase of their operation in the Afghan border region.
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A commander of Taliban guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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Prisoners wielding improvised weapons clashed with guards trying to stop a detainee from committing suicide at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the military said Friday.