Militant attacks up in Afghan border area: U.S.
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Militant attacks in eastern Afghanistan,   along the border with Pakistan, have tripled in some areas, the   U.S. military said on Thursday, despite a peace agreement on   the Pakistani side meant to end the violence.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - U.S. aircraft are hunting foreign jihadists in the remote mountains of northern Somalia where American forces launched air strikes earlier this month, a regional official said on Tuesday.
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US and Afghan troops killed more than a dozen militants who were attacking from positions in eastern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan, the US-led coalition said in a statement Sunday.
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U.S.-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.
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A spate of bombings is evidence that militants have begun an offensive they had threatened, a U.S. general said.
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Militants from Nigeria's oil-producing delta are planning to expand their attacks on foreign nationals beyond the Niger Delta region, the U.S. consulate said in a warning on Friday.
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Pakistani troops backed by artillery and aircraft have attacked suspected al-Qaida hideouts near the border with Afghanistan. Military officials say the attack early Saturday was launched near Shakai, a remote
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The scale and sophistication of militant attacks in Iraq are steadily increasing, with coordinated strikes and complicated ambushes that increasingly hit their targets, officials and analysts said Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan yesterday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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Pakistan is on the hunt for more terrorists believed holed up in the rugged territory along the border with Afghanistan. Security officials say troops backed by warplanes and artillery
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Security forces killed dozens of militants along the Afghan border on Friday, the army said, as violence escalated sharply along the frontier following Taliban assaults on two military outposts this week.
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Al Qaeda has become entrenched in a remote corner of Pakistan, and the United States fears a military strike could spawn new militant activity in the country, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Taliban militants in Afghanistan will step up their attacks on Canadian troops this year, using a combination of suicide bombers, roadside bombs and ambushes, the country's top soldier predicted on Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- US-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including Al Qaeda militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American commander said yesterday.
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Attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan surged last year, according to previously unpublished figures from allied military forces fighting insurgents
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Pakistan's ÂtruceÂ with militants in the lawless region bordering Afghanistan has set off concern among American analysts.
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Along the ungoverned border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Al Qaeda is training would-be jihadists from the West to attack their home countries.