Afghan, foreign troops launch bid to rescue Koreans
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Afghan and international forces have launched an operation to rescue 23 South Koreans taken hostage by Taliban insurgents south of the capital Kabul, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A purported Taliban spokesman said yesterday that the Islamic militia had killed two German hostages, a statement disputed by both Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 captive South Koreans for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
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North Korea has urged the U.N. refugee agency and the Red Cross to help stop the exodus of its citizens to South Korea after the secret airlift of some 460 North Koreans to Seoul in July, a North Korean newspaper said.
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KABUL, Dec 11: The US-led military in Afghanistan has kicked off a new operation to hunt Taliban militants in their winter stronghold and force them to accept an Afghan government reconciliation offer, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.
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SEOUL, Sept. 2 -- Looking wan and exhausted, and apologizing for the trouble they had caused their nation, South Korean missionaries held hostage for six weeks in Afghanistan arrived home early Sunday.
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Some South Korean Christian aid workers held hostage in Afghanistan reported being beaten by their Taliban captors for refusing to convert to Islam or for protecting female captives, a hospital chief said Monday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  -- A purported Taliban spokesman said that negotiations for the lives of 23 South Korean hostages had stalled and that militants would kill the aid workers Monday evening if the government doesn't free Taliban prisoners.
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National Guard officials mounted a rescue effort Thursday for two Korean backpackers stranded on an ice floe in the Bering Strait.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan yesterday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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Afghan authorities launch a new push to get people to hand over Stinger missiles from the 1980s war.
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The Taliban kidnappers of 23 Korean hostages on Sunday extended the deadline for the South Korean government to agree to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 24 hours to 10:30 a.m. EDT on Monday.
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Nineteen South Koreans held hostage for six weeks in Afghanistan are kept on the move by their Taliban captors, but are said to be in good health, a doctor in touch with a senior commander in the insurgent group told reporters Friday.
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In its largest offensive yet, thousands of NATO troops moved Tuesday into the mountains of southern Afghanistan where hundreds of hardcore Taliban insurgents hold sway &#151; an operation in the world's biggest opium-producing region aimed at winning over a population long supportive of militant fighters.
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About 18,000 American troops have started a winter-long operation against Taliban rebels in Afghanistan, vowing to eliminate insurgents who could threaten parliamentary elections slated for the spring.
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Afghan police launched a hunt Friday for gunmen who abducted a bus full of South Koreans, a police official said. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said they have abducted 18 people.
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The United States and Britain, the nations with the most troops fighting in Afghanistan, made a renewed push Thursday to portray the war as winnable and worthy of international support despite a so-far-unsuccessful struggle to get more allies to commit frontline forces.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Kagoshima, Japan, 13 September: The Japanese and South Korean coast guards held a joint sea rescue exercise Wednesday [13 September] in the East China Sea.