Taleban capture Afghan district
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Taleban rebels capture a district in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar after days of fierce fighting.
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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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The southern Afghan district of Musa Qala was under the control of the Taliban overnight, the Afghan defence ministry has said as NATO-led forces said the situation was still unclear.
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ISLAMABAD, 25 August 2004 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday announced he would free the last 400 Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taleban and had been languishing in decrepit Afghan jails since late 2001.
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A leading Afghan Taleban fighter is captured after a shootout in south-west Pakistan, police say.
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- An Afghan electoral board spokesman says Hamid Karzai is the winner of that country&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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US forces raided a suspected Taliban hideout in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing two fighters and capturing at least one more, officials said. The hourlong battle occurred in Dewalak, a village in Zabul Province along the Pakistani border, said Khial Mohammed, the provincial governor. US troops attacked after surrounding the village and coming under fire from the rebels, he said. The ...
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Kabul - A fuel tanker rigged as a huge truck bomb was seized on the outskirts of Afghanistan&#39;s southern city of Kandahar on Friday on the eve of landmark elections, a spokesperson for Nato peacekeepers said.
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LONDON, Sep 5 (IPS) - The Taliban have regained control over the southern  half of Afghanistan and their frontline is advancing daily, a  group closely monitoring the Afghan situation said in a report  Tuesday.
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Villagers in Helmand province, Afghanistan, say a senior Taleban leader has died after an air strike.
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Around 300 Taliban insurgents captured a remote district in western Afghanistan after storming its small capital and forcing out government forces, a provincial governor said.
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Why  the Taleban have been able to stage a comeback in Afghanistan, by Paul Danahar with Bilal Sarwary.
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A former Taleban commander who switched sides is made governor of the Afghan town of Musa Qala.
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About 80 Taleban are killed in a battle with US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, officials say.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban sources said on Thursday.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan during battles near a beseiged dam and a remote town that was captured by the militants, officials said.
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Taleban guerrillas say they carried out an attack in central Afghanistan that left four policemen dead.