US-brokered cease-fire, show of force, halts deadly Afghan infighting
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KABUL, Afghanistan  The US ambassador helped broker a cease-fire Tuesday to halt the latest bloody infighting in Afghanistan, persuading a warlord to pull away from a provincial capital as US warplanes circled overhead.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- US troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters, in southern Afghanistan, the military said Monday -- the latest bloodshed ahead of historic Afghan elections.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 18, 2004  A cease-fire between warring militias in western Afghanistan held on Wednesday, officials said, easing a conflict that has sounded alarm bells from Kabul to the United Nations about the need to improve security ahead ...
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A US-brokered ceasefire between warring factions in west Afghanistan was holding, a spokesman for a warlord said, after four days of fierce battles around the city of Herat, just weeks ahead of historic presidential elections.
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The United States has brokered a  cease-fire between a renegade Afghan militia leader and the  embattled governor of the western province of Herat,  Washington's envoy to Kabul said Tuesday.
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KABUL - US-led coalition and Afghan security forces aided by airstrikes killed about 25 suspected militants during raids on a Taliban command center in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said yesterday. The joint force targeted two compounds southwest of Kandahar city Saturday after weeks of observing the area, it said. The clashes killed 25 suspected militants, it said.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops, using artillery and airstrikes, killed 33 Taliban fighters after the insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
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In exchange, the rebels were paid for the weapons and U.S. commanders agreed to halt military operations against Sadr's militia.
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Pakistani military denies any truce has been agreed after Taliban fighters call halt to operations near Afghan border
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KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 17, 2004  An Afghan warlord abandoned his gains in the country&#39;s latest burst of factional fighting Tuesday, after the United States brokered a cease-fire and sent warplanes circling overhead.
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Afghan authorities investigate the circumstances of a militant attack on US forces in which eight civilians died
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A US soldier and a former Afghan militia leader were killed yesterday when American troops clashed with gunmen while searching the leader's compound in western Afghanistan, US and Afghan officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 50 suspected Taliban militants in an airstrike on a rebel stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the force said Monday. Residents claimed dozens of civilians were killed.
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The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan - a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road project - ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldn&#39;t slow them down with police hot on their trail.
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Dozens of militants were killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan overnight in clashes with U.S.-led foreign troops and Afghan forces, officials said on Saturday
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US and Afghan troops have killed a Taliban commander and detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters in a major search operation after a gun battle in southern Afghanistan.