Five Taliban leaders captured in Afghanistan battles
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The US military said it had captured more than five Taliban leaders, and confirmed the death of a rebel commander who was released two years ago from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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22 DETAINED IN AFGHANISTAN. US and Afghan troops detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters during a major search operation after a gun battle in southern Zabul province, officials said yesterday, as Afghan authorities
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Afghan intelligence agents arrested two senior Taliban military commanders, including a former security chief of the hardline regime&#39;s leader Mullah Omar, an official said Tuesday.
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Afghan security forces captured  Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief  on a bus to Kandahar, an Afghan security official in the  southern city told Reuters Tuesday.
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Afghan army and police surrounded the Taliban kidnappers of 23 Koreans on Sunday while tribal elders tried to mediate between the militants and government negotiators, a Kabul-based Western security analyst said.
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Pakistani police arrested five suspected Afghan militants in a raid in the southwestern city of Quetta, as a Pakistani newspaper said on Sunday the Taliban had conceded the arrest last week of one of their top leaders.
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US-led coalition troops detain five suspected militants  in eastern Afghanistan, a coalition statement says.
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The Afghan army killed four insurgents on Sunday, the Defense Ministry said, the first fighting near the former Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala since it was captured from the militants five days ago.
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There are greater numbers of Taliban rebels putting up a fight in southern Afghanistan than expected by the newly-deployed British military, a senior commander said.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban sources said on Thursday.
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US-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan yesterday in ground clashes and air strikes that left more than 100 militants dead, the coalition said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- US and Afghan soldiers detained 22 suspected Taliban members in a major search operation after a gun-fight in a southern Afghan mountain range, officials said yesterday.
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U.S. troops and helicopter gunships killed five suspected Taliban rebels Friday, hours after militants attacked Afghan army troops in southern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistani police arrested five suspected Afghan militants in a raid in the city of Quetta and a Pakistani newspaper said on Sunday the Taliban had conceded the arrest last week of one of their top leaders.
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About 2,500 troops launched a new operation against Islamic rebels in one of Afghanistan&#39;s most volatile areas Wednesday as 25 people were reported killed in fresh Taliban-linked violence.
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Afghan security forces have captured Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal security chief as he traveled in a van to the southern city of Kandahar, provincial officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Police arrested six Afghan Taliban fighters at a private hospital in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta on Sunday, an official said.