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WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 13, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Pakistan Taliban says it carried out a suicide bombing that killed 13 people one day after twin attacks on a military convoy in Lahore killed 44 people... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Mar 7, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an unannounced visit to Marjah on Sunday to see the gains made after a massive military offensive by Afghan and international troops to wrest control of the southern city from the Taliban... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 6, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- More than two dozen militants were killed Friday in a Pakistani military airstrike that targeted high-value Taliban leaders, a Pakistani military official told CNN Saturday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 25, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Afghan flag was raised over battle-scarred Marjah today. The banner was hoisted over an area where U.S. and other troops have been fighting the Taliban... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 19, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The news that two Taliban "shadow governors" have been detained in Pakistan underscores the reality that in Afghanistan there are, in effect, two governments... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 16, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Taliban's military leader has been caught, a senior Obama administration official says. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was associated with Osama bin Laden... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 15, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A major offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan is now in the "clearing phase," according to a NATO spokesman... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Feb 14, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Taliban put up stiff resistance today, as a coalition assault against the militant group entered its second day in southern Afghanistan... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Feb 13, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- NATO troops say they have gained a foothold in part of a Taliban-controlled town after launching their biggest war offensive in southern Afghanistan... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 12, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Afghan and international forces gearing up for a major offensive in Helmand province dropped leaflets Friday warning people not to give shelter to the Taliban... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 9, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is dead, three Taliban sources said Tuesday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 4, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is alive and remains in hiding, a spokesman for the group told CNN Thursday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 4, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for Wednesday's deadly attack, now thought to be a suicide bombing, in northwestern Pakistan that killed three U.S. military service members... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jan 31, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Pakistani military on Sunday was looking into a local report that the region's Taliban leader had died, officials said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jan 25, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A briefing prepared by the top U.S. intelligence official in Afghanistan, and obtained by CNN, concludes the Taliban in Afghanistan is increasingly effective... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 31, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing Wednesday that killed eight Americans believed to be CIA employees... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Dec 25, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The Taliban has released a new video that purportedly shows an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last summer... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 8, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Pakistani Taliban are waiting the weather out and will take on the military when winter arrives in Pakistan's tribal region, said Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud in a phone call with CNN... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Nov 8, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A suicide car bomber struck in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing 11 people, including a local mayor, authorities said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 3, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Making his first public appearance Tuesday since being declared the winner in a disputed election, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai vowed to stamp out corruption and work with the Taliban in his third term in office... Read More