US extends an olive branch to Taliban's 'moderates'
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Since the US military expelled the Taliban three years ago, it has battled the regime's diehard fighters in the barren mountains and dusty wastes of southern Afghanistan. Now the United States is extending an olive branch to moderate elements of its shadowy foe.
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States raised pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to rush more troops to Afghanistan to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the coming weeks would be key in battling the insurgency.
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Iran could be interested in cooperating with the United States to combat al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, a leading U.S. expert on Afghanistan said on Thursday.
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A deal with Islamist rebels is the latest in a foreign policy pendulum that swings between aggression and optimism.
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The Taliban has said that it is aiming to disrupt the inaugaration ceremony of Afghanistan&#39;s new president, Hamid Karzai, which will be attended by Dick Cheney, the American vice-president, Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary.
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Musharraf and Karzai may have agreed to work together, but U.S. officials acknowledge that rooting out the Taliban insurgency will be far more time consuming, expensive and complex than was originally envisioned
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A quick withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq could allow victorious Muslim extremists to fan out into other countries, with some militants going to Afghanistan to fight alongside a resurgent Taliban, Vice President Dick Cheney says.
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Some senior Taliban members have taken up  an amnesty offer made last year by the Afghan government, the  U.S. ambassador said Monday.
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The Taliban and its Al-Qaida allies were stepping up plans to disrupt Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election on October 9, the head of the US-led coalition said on Saturday.
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ISLAMABAD, Aug 22: The US authorities have permitted the Afghan government to release Pakistani prisoners languishing in different jails for their alleged links with Taliban, a source in the interior ministry told Dawn on Sunday.
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Moderates are seeking the end of military rule, but that may not be good for the United States.
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Interviews with Iraqi Shiite clerics reveal that moderates are increasingly supporting Sadr&#39;s anti-US campaign. By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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In two wars, the United States succeeded in toppling two oppressive regimes - the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Ba&#39;athist in Iraq.
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Pakistani pacts with pro-Taliban militants on the Afghan border have facilitated attacks on foreign troops in Afghanistan and allowed the militants to expand influence in Pakistan, a think-tank said.
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Days after Taliban fighters overran Musa Qala a U.S. commander pledged that Western troops would take it back. Nine months later, the town is still Taliban territory, a symbol of the West's struggles to control the poppy-growing south.
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To stem the growing Taliban resurgence in remote Afghanistan, US military leaders win over village elders with local development projects.
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Ramadi, once an anti-American danger zone, is now a model for the tactic of courting moderate Sunni leaders, but will it catch on?