Taleban forces retake Afghan town
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Taleban forces in southern Afghanistan take control of a town at the centre of controversial UK peace deal.
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A commander of Taliban guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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NATO and Afghan government troops have   forced Taliban insurgents out of a southern Afghan district   after a two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of   militants were killed.
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Afghan troops kill rebels in the first fighting near Musa Qala since its capture from the Taleban, say officials.
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Villagers in Helmand province, Afghanistan, say a senior Taleban leader has died after an air strike.
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About 80 Taleban are killed in a battle with US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, officials say.
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Afghanistan&#39;s western city of Herat is slowly returning to normal, a day after angry protesters burned several international aid compounds and clashed with security forces, leaving at least seven people dead.
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Ethiopian troops trying to protect Somalia's weak government moved into a second Somali town before dawn Saturday, seizing control of an airport, witnesses and aid workers said.
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A NATO air strike has killed a Taliban commander behind an insurgent takeover of a small southern Afghanistan town, as a US general took command of the 35,000-strong NATO-led force.
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Nato claims to have killed up to 80 Taleban in a battle in Afghanistan were inaccurate, officials say.
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Afghan authorities lost control of a southern Afghanistan district British forces left to tribal elders last year, after Taliban fighters attacked and disarmed police, officials said.
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Hundreds of suspected Taliban fighters attacked a remote central Afghan town on Wednesday and occupied a district police headquarters after the battle, driving out security forces, an official said.
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Taliban militants remain in control of a southern Afghan town nearly a week after capturing it, but NATO expects the Afghan government to soon reassert its authority there, an alliance spokesman said Wednesday.
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Afghan forces say they have surrounded Taleban fighters holding a group of South Korean hostages.
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More than 20 insurgents die in a major drive against the Taleban in south Afghanistan, Nato-led forces say.
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Nato and Afghan forces launch their largest combined offensive so far against Taleban militants in southern Helmand province.
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The governor of Uruzgan province, Jan Mohammed Khan, says Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar was among three Taleban fighters killed during a raid in Char Cheno district late Saturday.