Taliban growing stronger in Afghanistan: UK report
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The British-led NATO force in Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of growing stronger, a report by Britain's parliament has found.
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Afghanistan produced dramatically more opium in 2006, increasing its yield by nearly 50 percent from a year earlier and pushing global opium production to a new record high, a U.N. report said Tuesday.
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Two British soldiers and more than two dozen Islamist Taliban insurgents were killed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Britain's Ministry of Defence and the U.S. military said.
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LONDON -- Britain said yesterday it will increase its troop strength in southern Afghanistan to bolster NATO forces battling Taliban militants, days after Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was pulling some British troops out of Iraq.
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The British-led NATO force in southern  Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its  mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of growing  stronger, a report by Britain&#39;s parliament has found.
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Opium cultivation in Afghanistan leapt by two-thirds this year, according to a new UN report that warns the countryâs economy could be forced to rely on poppy growing largely wiped out under the hardline Taliban militia.
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Taliban insurgents carried out 103 suicide bombings in Afghanistan in the first eight months of 2007, a 69 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a United Nations report.
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Despite the loss of a NATO Chinook helicopter this week with seven servicemen aboard, a British-led thrust to drive the Taliban from strongholds in Helmand province is yielding success, Western military officials said on Friday.
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A Taliban militant warns that his movement is more sophisticated - and more brutal - than before.
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Britain said Monday it was not "engaged" with the Taliban, after a report that relations between London and Kabul have soured due to a secret British plan to train former Taliban fighters.
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The rise of Taliban resistance in southern Afghanistan reflects the weakness of the government more than a strengthening of the fundamentalist movement that once sheltered Osama bin Laden, the top U.S. commander here said Tuesday.
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Foreign fighters are starting to appear  among Taliban forces fighting British troops in southern  Afghanistan, a senior British official said on Wednesday.
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British foreign policy and in particular the Iraq war has made it easier for Islamist extremists to recruit young British Muslims, according to a report released here Thursday.
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Britain warned that the credibility of NATO was at stake in Afghanistan after it was surprised by the strength of resisitance from the Taliban, the country's hardline former rulers.
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The British-led NATO force in southern Afghanistan does not have enough troops to carry out its mission and the Taliban show worrying signs of growing stronger, a report by Britain's parliament has found.
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Al-Qaeda's deputy leader says the UK handover of security in Basra shows Iraqi insurgents are gaining strength.
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Britain said Monday it was sending 900 more soldiers to southern Afghanistan to combat resistance from a resurgent Taliban.