US, Afghan Forces Attack Taliban Ahead of Vote
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Afghan guards backed by US helicopter gunships raided a Taliban safe house, killing one man and arresting 15, to prevent attacks during this week&#39;s presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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KABUL, Dec 11: The US-led military in Afghanistan has kicked off a new operation to hunt Taliban militants in their winter stronghold and force them to accept an Afghan government reconciliation offer, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.
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KABUL, Feb. 28 -- Intelligence reports indicated that the Taliban had the ability to carry out suicide attacks near the main U.S. base in Afghanistan even before a deadly bombing during a visit by Vice President Cheney, NATO said Wednesday.
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Afghans braved threats of Taliban attacks to begin voting today in a historic presidential election that they hope will mark the beginning of the end to a quarter century of conflict.
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The 18,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan have begun a new offensive to hunt Taliban and al-Qaida militants through the country's harsh winter, aiming to sap their strength ahead of planned spring elections, the American military said Saturday.
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Afghan guards backed by U.S. helicopter  gunships raided a Taliban safe house, killing one man and  arresting 15, to prevent attacks during this week's  presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- An attack on a patrol killed an American soldier, the third US fatality this week in Afghanistan, the military said yesterday, amid a flurry of attacks that wounded more than a dozen Americans in the run-up to the Oct. 9 presidential election.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan vowed on Wednesday to bolster security in the volatile south and southeast ahead of a landmark election, as Taliban guerrillas bent on disrupting the poll launched a fresh wave of attacks.
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In Afghanistan, at least seven people, including two US soldiers, have died in separate incidents. The attacks come as the vote count in Afghanistan&#39;s historic presidential election is under way.
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US forces have launched a major offensive to reclaim the rebel stronghold of Samarra in the Sunni Muslim triangle ahead of nationwide parliamentary elections scheduled for January.
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U.S. troops carrying out an anti-militant offensive fought off a Taliban attack on their mountaintop camp Tuesday, while a roadside blast in the same part of southern Afghanistan left a Romanian soldier dead.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Intelligence reports indicated that the Taliban had the ability to carry out suicide attacks near the main US base in Afghanistan even before a bloody bombing during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, NATO said yesterday.
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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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Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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KABUL: The Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies were stepping up plans to disrupt Afghanistanâs first direct presidential election on Oct 9, the head of the US-led coalition said on Saturday.
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More than 100,000 Afghan and foreign security forces were on high alert Friday, the day before the country&#39;s first direct presidential election after more than two decades of war.
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At least 12 Afghan soldiers are dead after fighting in the south with Taliban fighters, say provincial officials. Thursday&#39;s fighting was a sharp escalation in violence ahead of next month&#39;s landmark presidential election.