Wanted Taliban leader said killed in raid
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A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said, citing ground commanders.
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Afghan police killed a Taliban militant alleged to be behind the July kidnappings of 23 South Korean church workers, authorities said Tuesday. Up to 27 other insurgents were also slain, while separate suicide attacks killed three police officers.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan's Taliban movement has freed four local health ministry officials in exchange for the remains of its slain commander, Mullah Dadullah, a purported Taliban spokesman said on Thursday. Western and Afghan forces killed Dadullah in a clash last month, dealing a heavy blow to the Islamist insurgents, and his body was buried in an undisclosed location in southern Kandahar province, scene of some of the heaviest fighting this year.
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Afghan guards backed by US helicopter gunships raided a Taliban safe house, killing one man and arresting 15, to prevent attacks during this week&#39;s presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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A senior Taliban military leader has been killed in southern Uruzgan province, Afghan top security official confirmed Sunday. &quot;Mullah Abdul Ghafar along with his two colleagues
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AMMAN: The leader of the most active insurgency group in Iraq, Tawhid and Jihad, has been killed in a US airstrike, his father and Islamic scholars said yesterday.
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At least 13 people were killed when around 100 pro-Taliban militants launched rockets and lobbed hand grenades at the home of a top Pakistani cleric, police and witnesses said.
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Pakistani soldiers searching a cave found the body of a fugitive tribal leader whose death in a military raid sparked large-scale unrest, but it was pinned under a boulder and will take days to retrieve, army officials said Thursday.
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Russia's most wanted man, Chechen rebel   leader Shamil Basayev, was killed during an overnight operation   by special forces, the state security chief told President   Vladimir Putin on Monday.
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Afghan guards backed by U.S. helicopter gunships raided a Taliban safe house, killing one man and arresting 15, to prevent attacks during this week's presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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The Philippine military is verifying reports that Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group leader Khadaffy Janjalani was killed in an aerial assault in the southern Philippines, a local television reported Monday.
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A NATO air strike has killed a Taliban commander behind an insurgent takeover of a small southern Afghanistan town, as a US general took command of the 35,000-strong NATO-led force.
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Pakistani security forces killed a top figure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and captured four other militants Monday, a military official said.
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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.
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Russia&#039;s most wanted man, Chechen rebel  leader Shamil Basayev, was killed in an overnight operation by  special forces, the state security chief told President  Vladimir Putin on Monday.
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The U.S.-led coalition on Friday said 25 Taliban were killed in a joint operation with Afghan forces in the country's south, while a rare gunbattle near the capital killed one militant.
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U.S. airstrikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high-ranking commander involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan officials said Tuesday