Troops keep watch over Afghan capital
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Hundreds of Afghan and coalition troops took up positions around the Afghan capital on Tuesday to prevent further anti-American riots a day after a deadly traffic accident set off the worst violence in the capital since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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Taleban are changing their focus to attack the Afghan capital Kabul, a spokesman for the group says.
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A heavy security clampdown was enforced in the Afghan capital after the bombing of a US firm left at least seven dead and 28 wounded, and raised new fears about security just weeks before elections.
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Troops moved out of their barracks and took up positions at key locations around the Bangladesh capital on Sunday after the government ordered the deployment to ensure a peaceful run up to elections next month.
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Tens of thousands of troops fanned out across Pakistan on Tuesday to bolster security ahead of next week's parliamentary elections, but senior military officials say they would not try to interfere with the vote.
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KABUL -- Preying on a weak government and rising public concerns about security, the Taliban is enjoying a military resurgence in Afghanistan and is now staging attacks just outside the capital, according to Western diplomats, private security analysts and aid workers.
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A suicide car bomber hit a vehicle carrying foreign troops in the Afghan capital on Thursday and may have killed two soldiers, police officials said.
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The Philippine government is sending a team to Afghanistan, to monitor United Nations efforts for the release of a Filipino and two other foreign nationals abducted in the capital, Kabul.
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Troops took up positions around the  Bangladeshi capital and in all major cities and towns on Sunday  after the government ordered the deployment to ensure a  peaceful run-up to elections next month.
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Security is extremely tight around the Afghan capital as Hamid Karzai prepares to be sworn in as the country&#39;s first popularly elected president.
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Tens of thousands of troops fanned out across Pakistan on Tuesday to bolster security ahead of next week's parliamentary elections, but senior military officials say they would not try to interfere with the vote
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Government troops intervened in Afghanistan's latest outbreak of deadly fighting among warlords, flying from the capital to the far west on US and NATO airplanes to retake an air base contested in the violence, officials said yesterday.
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Afghan forces retook control of the country's largest jail, following a day-long standoff in which at least nine people were killed and four wounded, police and witnesses said.
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NATO battled Taliban holdouts in the   deserts of southern Afghanistan on Saturday amid a security   crackdown in the capital after at least 16 people were killed   by a suicide bomber.
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British forces carry out an operation against the Taleban in Garmsir, southern Afghanistan.
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Taliban militants remain in control of a southern Afghan town nearly a week after capturing it, but NATO expects the Afghan government to soon reassert its authority there, an alliance spokesman said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD -- More than 1,100 US and Iraqi troops pushed into the Shi'ite militia haven of Sadr City yesterday, the largest operation in nearly three years in the sprawling, turbulent slum. Control of the area is viewed as pivotal to stabilizing the capital and preventing Iraq's slide toward civil war.