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/ 15 October 2009
Italy denied a report on Thursday that it paid off Taliban commanders and Afghan warlords, potentially costing the lives of French troops.
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/ 13 October 2009
Pakistani fighter jets on Tuesday killed six suspected militants in fresh strikes on Taliban strongholds in the northwest, officials said.
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/ 13 October 2009
Pakistan defended its intelligence agencies on Tuesday after a bloody week which saw 125 people killed in attacks blamed on Taliban militants.
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/ 12 October 2009
A suspected suicide bomber killed up to 24 people in an attack on the Pakistani military on Monday.
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/ 11 October 2009
Pakistani commandos stormed an office building on Sunday and rescued 39 people whom suspected Taliban militants took hostage.
The Taliban’s alliance with Osama bin Laden appears stronger than for years, but strains linger beneath the surface.
The Afghan Taliban pose no threat to the West but will continue their fight against occupying foreign forces, they said on Wednesday, the eighth anniv
The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday said it carried out a suicide attack on a UN compound which killed five aid workers.
The new chief of Pakistani Taliban militants who US and Pakistani officials said might be dead has surfaced to meet journalists in his stronghold.
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/ 22 September 2009
Suspected Taliban militants bombed a primary school on the outskirts of Peshawar on Tuesday, underscoring the Islamist threat in northwest Pakistan.
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/ 17 September 2009
Hamid Karzai said on Thursday fraud claims in last month’s elections were exaggerated, just before six Italian troops were killed in a suicide attack.
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/ 14 September 2009
Pakistani security forces intensified a hunt on Monday for the Pakistani Taliban leader in the Swat valley, military officials said.
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/ 11 September 2009
Pakistani security forces have arrested the spokesperson for the Taliban in the Swat valley, the military said, the first major arrest in the region.
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/ 10 September 2009
The rescue of a British journalist from the Taliban has provoked anger about the risks reporters take in war zones.
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/ 9 September 2009
Nato commandos on Wednesday rescued a New York Times reporter held by the Taliban in Afghanistan during a dramatic airborne swoop.
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/ 8 September 2009
Taliban militants on Tuesday shot dead four schoolchildren in an apparent sectarian attack in a remote tribal town in Pakistan, officials said.
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/ 7 September 2009
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai hopes to hold peace talks with the Taliban within 100 days if he is re-elected, he said in an interview on Monday.
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/ 4 September 2009
Nato acknowledged on Friday that large numbers of Afghan civilians were being treated in hospitals after its aircraft opened fire on hijacked tankers.
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/ 4 September 2009
Nato was investigating whether it killed scores of Afghan civilians on Friday after carrying out an air strike against two hijacked fuel tankers.
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/ 1 September 2009
Pakistani troops killed 15 militants in fresh clashes in Swat, the army said on Tuesday, taking the death toll to 45 in five days.
Taliban militants are filling gaps and winning support to their cause, a top counter-insurgency expert said on Monday.
A fierce gunfight paralysed a district in eastern Afghanistan after Taliban forced their way into a clinic seeking treatment for their leader.
Pakistan’s Taliban have threatened to avenge the death of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a United States missile strike.
Afghanistan election monitors are reporting irregularities and violence — including an attack on voters with ink-stained fingers.
A Pakistan Taliban commander says he has taken over the militant leadership, but analysts on Thursday said the claim simply exposed deep rifts.
Streets in Afghanistan were mainly quiet and tense early on Thursday as Afghans headed to the polls for an anxiously awaited presidential election.
The turnout of voters in Afghanistan’s south will be crucial in judging the credibility of Thursday’s presidential elections.
Gunmen stormed a bank building in the Afghan capital and battled police for hours on Wednesday on the eve of a cliffhanger election.
Pakistan’s prime minister on Wednesday hailed the military’s "success" against the Taliban, as the rebels reeled from the arrest of a top spokesperson
Afghanistan’s 17-million voters are set to go to the polls on Thursday with security forces on high alert against a threatened Taliban onslaught.
A Taliban rocket struck the grounds of Afghanistan’s presidential palace on Tuesday, just two days before incumbent Hamid Karzai seeks re-election.
The Taliban on Sunday threatened for the first time to attack Afghan polling stations, escalating their bid to derail key elections.