Foreign Fighters of Violent Bent Bolster Taliban
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The growing numbers of foreign fighters in Afghanistan are more violent, uncontrollable and extreme than even their locally bred allies in the Taliban.
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Fighting between NATO troops and Taliban fighters killed eight soldiers, including six Westerners, and 10 militants in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks are running at their highest level since the US invasion, officials said yesterday.
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Reports estimated that as many as 200 Taliban fighters were killed in a new offensive in southern Afghanistan.
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Islamic militants are flouting a recent peace deal and fortifying alliances with Al Qaeda and foreign fighters, creating a virtual Taliban mini-state.
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NATO forces cornering Taliban guerrillas   killed up to 60 fighters in artillery and air strikes and   ground battles on Tuesday in a major offensive to crush a   revitalised Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.
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U.S.-led coalition forces captured a one-legged militant fighter in a battle this week in southern Afghanistan, and it was possible he could be a top Taliban leader, an Afghan general said Friday.
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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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Attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan surged last year, according to previously unpublished figures from allied military forces fighting insurgents
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Warplanes and artillery pounded Taliban fighters hiding in orchards Sunday during a big Afghan-NATO offensive that the alliance said killed more than 200 militants in its first two days. Four Canadian soldiers also were killed.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan freed 81 suspected Taliban fighters from military jails across the country Sunday and some of the released men said they had been mistreated and tortured in custody.
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U.S.-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday in ground clashes and airstrikes that left over 100 militants dead, the coalition said.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Taliban fighters are continuing to reinforce a key southern town against an expected NATO offensive more than a week after taking it over, ending a controversial four month truce.
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About 80 Taliban fighters were believed killed in a clash with NATO-led troops and Afghan security forces in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan at the weekend, a NATO spokesman has said.
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Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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Pakistani jet fighters and helicopter gunships pounded a suspected terrorist training camp near the Afghan border yesterday, killing at least 50 mostly foreign militants.
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A Taliban spokesman warned Tuesday that militants would increase attacks against restaurants in Kabul frequented by Westerners
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - At least 700 Taliban fighters have crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan to reinforce guerrillas attacking a key dam, a major source of electricity and irrigation, a provincial governor said on Monday.