Eight arrested after German shot dead in Afghanistan
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Eight people have been arrested after a German aid worker was shot dead in northern Afghanistan, a governor said Friday, adding it was not clear if the killers were Islamist militants or bandits.
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A German man missing in north-west Afghanistan has been kidnapped, Afghan police say.
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Clashes between Afghan police and Taliban militants killed eight officers and two Taliban in volatile southern Afghanistan, authorities said Sunday.
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Eight detainees have died in  American military custody in Afghanistan, more than previously  reported, the Pentagon said on Monday, while a human rights  group assailed a U.S. "culture of impunity" on prisoner abuse.
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A NATO soldier was killed and four wounded during an operation in southern Afghanistan early Saturday, while U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces detained a Taliban commander and two suspected al-Qaida militants in the east, officials said.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Eight Afghan civilians were killed on Sunday when foreign troops opened fire after a suicide car-bomber attacked their convoy in the east of the country, a provincial police spokesman said.
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Afghan authorities have arrested four people suspected of being involved in the kidnap of a German national, an Afghan minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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U.S. and Afghan forces killed four people  and arrested five more in a raid on a village in eastern  Afghanistan early on Sunday, a provincial official said.
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Germany backs Afghan reports that one of two Germans held by the Taleban died of natural causes and was not shot.
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Police have detained an eighth suspect in the slaying of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and arrested two other men who called for the beheading of a Dutch politician in the name of Islam, prosecutors said Saturday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - At least eight people were killed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday in a suicide car bombing against NATO troops and subsequent gunfire by the soldiers, police and witnesses said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US and Afghan troops killed a Taliban commander and detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters during a major search operation after a gunbattle in a southern Afghan mountain range, officials said Saturday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Eight Afghan border security soldiers and five Taliban fighters have been killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, a senior official said on Sunday.
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President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Friday into the killings of eight people in eastern Afghanistan during a raid that U.S. forces claimed targeted al-Qaida members, according to a government statement.
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U.S.-led troops mounted overnight raids on suspected al-Qaida compounds in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people and detaining several others, officials said Sunday. The U.S. military said "several Arab fighters" were among the suspects killed or detained in the operation in Nangarhar province, although a local official said only Afghans survived.
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A German citizen is believed to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan, a German foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
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"We can't give up our efforts now"  By Sayed SalahuddinKABUL  - Afghanistan's Taliban movement said on Saturday it had killed one of two German hostages and would kill the other in less than an hour if its demands were not met."I got information from Taliban that they shot dead one of the hostages and the second one will be killed by 1 p.m. (local time)," Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters by phone from an unknown location.The two unidentified Germans along with six Afghan colleagues were kidnapped at gun point while traveling in a vehicle on Wednesday in Wardak province which lies to the southwest of Kabul. Read more