Afghanistan Disputes Report That Taliban Killed 2 Hostages
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Afghanistanâs Foreign Ministry insisted that one of the hostages had died of a heart attack and the other was still alive.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 12 Taliban fighters on Tuesday, including two militant leaders involved in the kidnap of 23 South Koreans in July, a provincial police chief said.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - The Taliban on Saturday denied accusations by Afghan leaders the group was being sponsored by Pakistan, an issue souring relations between the two nations.
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Suspected Taliban militants hanged a woman and her son from a tree after accusing them of spying for the government, while fighting between supporters of rival warlords in northwestern Afghanistan killed four people, officials said Wednesday.
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KABUL, July 21 -- A purported Taliban spokesman said Saturday that the hard-line Islamic movement had killed two German hostages, a claim disputed by Afghanistan and Germany. He also offered to trade 23 South Korean captives for imprisoned Taliban fighters.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three U.N. hostages claimed Wednesday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives.
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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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Two people were reported killed in a protest over Afghan President Karzai&#39;s decision to replace a powerful provincial governor.
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Afghan police killed three Taliban commanders allegedly involved in the abduction of 23 South Koreans two months ago, the Interior Ministry said.
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The US military denied claims from Afghan officials and a Danish aid group that it bombed a village and killed several civilians during clashes with insurgents in eastern Afghanistan.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Taliban guerrillas said   on Tuesday they had killed a Turk kidnapped last month after   the Turkish construction company he worked for ignored an   ultimatum to leave Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in the country's volatile south yesterday, killing 19 of the laborers, while Afghan and NATO forces said they killed 35 Taliban militants in two separate firefights.
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The Taliban said on Tuesday they had captured a British journalist and two Afghans in the southern province of Helmand, a major drug producer, but gave no further details.
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Two British soldiers and more than two dozen Islamist Taliban insurgents were killed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Britain's Ministry of Defence and the U.S. military said.
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NATO's estimate of Taliban killed this month has created skepticism and worry in Afghanistan, with local officials saying that either the militant force has grown bigger than imagined &#151; or too many innocent Afghans are being killed.
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It was not clear whether reports that the Taliban had agreed to release the 19 hostages were accurate.
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Gunmen ambushed two German journalists  traveling in northern Afghanistan on Saturday killing them  both, Afghan officials said.