Afghan Taleban 'targeting Kabul'
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The Taleban are changing their focus to attack the Afghan capital Kabul, a spokesman for the group says.
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Nato allies must do more to fight the Taleban in Afghanistan, the US defence secretary tells the BBC.
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A German held hostage by the Taleban appeals for help in a video broadcast on Afghan television.
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Pro-Taleban militants claim to have kidnapped more than 300 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border.
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The threat posed by the Taleban in Afghanistan was underestimated, the British defence secretary is set to admit.
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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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Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- US-led coalition warplanes bombed the forces of an Afghan warlord near the western city of Herat, Agence France-Presse reported from Afghanistan&#39;s capital Kabul, citing Herat&#39;s police chief Ziahuddin Muhmoodi.
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The Taliban has launched a new operation targeting government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, a spokesman said Sunday, as two policemen died in an ambush in the volatile south.
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NATO military commanders request 2,500 more soldiers to fight Taleban No formal offers from any other alliance members as yet Blair appeals for countries to do their 'duty' Key quote "If we are going to ...
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett tells the BBC she hopes moderate members of the Taleban can be drawn away from extremists
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A Taleban commander who led attacks on British troops says he was freed from an Afghan prison after paying a bribe.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 -- The Taliban carried out an apparent attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, firing rockets that missed him by several hundred yards as he spoke to a group of elders.
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Nato says a two-week operation has driven Taleban militants from a stronghold in southern Afghanistan.
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Taleban guerrillas say they carried out an attack in central Afghanistan that left four policemen dead.
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The Taleban say four of their fighters have attacked the luxury Serena hotel in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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WASHINGTON -- US and Afghan officials are investigating whether Taliban fighters who claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at Bagram Air Force Base were tipped off that Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting the US military headquarters.
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A top Taliban commander said Wednesday the group has 4,000 fighters bracing to rebuff NATO's largest-ever offensive in southern Afghanistan, now in its second day. Suicide bombers are ready, land mines have been planted and helicopters will be targeted, Mullah Abdul Qassim, a top Taliban commander in Helmand province told The Associated Press.