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CNN
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A resurgent Taliban is back in charge over parts of Afghanistan, the chief U.S. intelligence official said Wednesday in an assessment that differed from the one made last month by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. More than six years after the United States..
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CNN
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Taliban fighters Tuesday ambushed a convoy carrying fuel bound for U.S. military bases in western Afghanistan, killing 15 Afghan employees of a U.S. security contractor, according to the governor of the Farah province, where the attack happened.
The fu..
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USA Today
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The U.S. military has launched a new "Most Wanted" campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of a dozen Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders.
Posters and billboards are being put up around eastern Afghanistan with the n..
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Al Jazeera
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A Taliban spokesman told Al Jazeera: "Everyone knows we control that area, how possibly could the coalition stand there and count the bodies."
Alan Fisher, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Afghanistan, said residents in the area also reported several civ..
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USA Today
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A bomb attack Friday against a convoy of French troops killed one soldier and caused many casualties among Afghans near the blast, while heavy fighting in southern Afghanistan killed about 75 Taliban fighters, officials said.
The attack in western Kabu..
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CNN
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A Taliban commander who masterminded the July kidnapping of South Korean aid workers was among 16 militants killed by U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan soldiers, according to a police official. The coalition press center said the military operation was..
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SF Gate
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The Taliban freed the seven remaining South Koreans they were holding hostage in central Afghanistan on Thursday evening, Afghan officials announced. All of the hostages appeared to be in good condition.
The release of the last hostages ended a six-wee..
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USA Today
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Taliban militants were expected to release seven remaining South Korean hostages Thursday, bringing to an end a six-week drama that saw two captives executed by the kidnappers, a South Korean official said.
South Korean presidential spokesman Cheon Ho-..
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CNN
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Taliban militants released eight South Korean hostages in Afghanistan after more than a month of captivity. Earlier on Wednesday three women, identified as Ahn Hye-jin, 31, Lee Jung-ran, 33, and 34-year-old Han Ji-young, were handed over to representative..
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CNN
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South Korean negotiators in Afghanistan have reached a deal with Taliban militants holding 19 South Korean Christian aid workers for over a month, a presidential spokesman in Seoul said Tuesday. Seoul welcomes the deal, but the spokesman cautioned that ma..
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Al Jazeera
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The women were brought to the arranged meeting point on the side of a road in rural Ghazni province by Haji Zahir, an Afghan man, who also got into the Red Cross vehicle with the freed hostages.
Breakthrough
The handover is the first significant b..
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USA Today
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A purported Taliban spokesman on Tuesday said a meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Bush had "no result" and that militants' demands must be met if 21 South Korean hostages are to be safely released.
The spokesman, Qari Yousef A..
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CNN
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the Taliban still endanger innocent people, but they pose no significant threat either to his government or to its institutions. "It's a force that is defeated, frustrated, acting in cowardice by killing chil..
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FOX News
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South Korean and Afghan officials searched for a meeting place Thursday after agreeing to hold face-to-face talks with the Taliban to seek the release of the remaining 21 South Korean captives, a chief negotiator said.
A delegation of eight South Korea..
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CNN
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Taliban leaders said on Sunday their fighters would kill 22 remaining South Korean hostages if the Afghan government did not release rebel prisoners by a new deadline of 0730 GMT on Monday, a spokesman said. Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said the..
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USA Today
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A purported Taliban spokesman said Monday the hard-line militia has extended its deadline on the fate of 23 South Korean hostages who were seized last week.
Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the Taliban, said the militants had pushed back the..
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Al Jazeera
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Mansour Dadullah was appointed as the new field commander by the Taliban after Mullah Dadullah was killed by the coalition forces.
"Sheikh Osama prefers not to be seen or meet anyone because if he makes himself available to the media maybe he will be f..
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Bloomberg
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Iranian-made arms bound for the Taliban were intercepted by coalition forces in Afghanistan within the past month, General Peter Pace, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today.
U.S. and coalition forces seized mortars and explosives in Ka..
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Al Jazeera
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The French government has confirmed the video shows two French aid workers who have gone missing in Afghanistan.
'No prisoner swaps'
James Bays, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Jalalabad, said: "The Taliban demands are that they want more prisoners..
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Al Jazeera
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The operation to retake Sangin started late on Wednesday and was part of Nato's largest ever offensive in Afghanistan, Operation Achilles.Nato commanders are trying to push the Taliban out of the northern tip of Helmand to allow multimillion-dollar repair..
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