Taliban warned to leave town as residents flee
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Afghan authorities have dropped leaflets warning Taliban occupying a remote town to leave or be forced out, as residents fled fearing an offensive by NATO-led troops.
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The Afghan government and Nato-led troops are preparing to recapture a town stormed by the Taleban.
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NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon  - The families of Islamist militants battling Lebanese troops for the past three months are likely to be evacuated from a battered Palestinian refugee camp later on Friday, Lebanese security sources said.
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters could abandon their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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Relatives of Islamic fighters holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon began leaving the besieged area Friday, according to a Muslim clergyman mediating between the militants and the army.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of Taliban militants overran a southern Afghan town that British troops had left after a contentious peace agreement in October, destroying the government center and temporarily holding elders hostage, officials and residents said yesterday.
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters could  abandon their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace  talks under way between local commanders and President Hamid  Karzai's government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 3 -- The arrest of a senior Taliban leader in a Pakistani city long reputed to be a haven for the group kindled guarded hope among Western and Afghan security officials Friday that the government here plans to move more aggressively against insurgents taking refuge on its...
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People flee areas attacked in the Somali capital as moves to deploy peacekeepers are stepped up.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Police fled a town in western Afghanistan yesterday and suspected Taliban militants briefly moved in -- the second time in a month that the government has lost control of a district in the area.
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A Somali minister and militia leader calls on Prime Minister Ghedi's government to leave its base in Baidoa.
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NATO-led troops dropped leaflets on a southern Afghan town overrun by militants, warning the fighters to leave after their leader was killed in a targeted airstrike, officials said Monday.
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KABUL -- Hundreds of villagers fled a southern Afghan town yesterday overrun by Taliban militants, fearful of a NATO attack on the insurgent fighters , residents said. General David Richards, NATO's outgoing commander, said "very surgical and deliberate" force would be used to evict the fighters from Musa Qala, where he said the alliance's strategy of avoiding military action has ...
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Hundreds of Islamic militiamen in heavily armed trucks headed Saturday to the strategic town of Kismayo in what appeared to be an imminent takeover attempt of one of the last seaports outside their control in Somalia, witnesses said.
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Villagers in the rebel north tell the Army to leave, while NGOs try to stay out of politics.
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A top Taliban commander issued a chilling threat on Saturday, promising to kill a kidnapped Italian journalist unless the movement's arrested spokesmen were freed and a date was set for the withdrawal of Italian troops from Afghanistan.