South Korea's top spy under fire for Taliban mission
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South Korea's spy chief is under fire for a high-profile mission to Afghanistan to negotiate the release of hostages which critics said violated the agency's motto to "work in the shade in pursuit of light".
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani security forces have arrested an Afghan militant leader who allegedly masterminded
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Taliban groups based in Pakistan could pose significant international terrorism threat, analysts at a leading thinktank warn
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One of 23 South Korean hostages held hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been killed because he was very ill and could not be moved to hospital, a local Afghan official told CNN on Wednesday.
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A South Korean delegation arrived in  Afghanistan on Sunday to try to secure the release of 23  Koreans held hostage by Taliban guerrillas, a South Korean  embassy official said.
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Pakistan arrested a former Taliban defense minister regarded as a top figure in the Afghan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, considered a key associate of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is the most senior leader from the hard-line militia to be arrested since U.S.-led troops ousted it from power in 2001.
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Officials in Afghanistan were trying to establish whether a seriously wounded one-legged militant captured after a gun battle was Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah.
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A South Korean man was arrested and  charged with spying for South Korea and obtaining information  from North Korea in return for payments, U.S. officials said on  Thursday.
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A South Korean man was arrested and accused of spying for South Korea and obtaining information from North Korea in return for payments, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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A ranking South Korean official on Friday argued it was too early to assume that the country will be referred to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for its past nuclear experiments.
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About 20 South Korean Christian volunteers are feared to have been kidnapped in Afghanistan by Taliban insurgents, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.
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SEOUL -- Trained as a military propagandist in North Korea, Kim Seong Min has turned his skills against the government that once forced his allegiance. From a small radio studio in Seoul, he and a handful of other North Korean defectors deliver daily broadcasts to people who remain behind in the...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 10 -- The Taliban carried out an apparent attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, firing rockets that missed him by several hundred yards as he spoke to a group of elders.
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A South Korean government delegation arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday to try to secure the release of 23 of their countrymen kidnapped by Taliban insurgents demanding Seoul pull its troops out of the country.
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President George W. Bush's pick for top CIA legal officer came under fire from Senate Democrats on Tuesday for his role in an interrogation and detention program that brought accusations of torture against the United States.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants threatened yesterday to kill at least 18 kidnapped South Korean Christians, including 15 women, within 24 hours unless the Asian nation withdraws its 200 troops from Afghanistan.