Authorities lose control of Afghan district in Taliban attack
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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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Afghan security forces backed by US helicopter gunships stormed a Taliban safe house, killing one man and capturing 15 others, in an attempt to curb attacks ahead of this weekâs presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Taliban fighters are continuing to reinforce a key southern town against an expected NATO offensive more than a week after taking it over, ending a controversial four month truce.
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A brazen attack by hundreds of Taliban militants on an isolated town had been building for days, a coalition spokesman said Friday, after a wave of violence in southern Afghanistan left around 100 dead.
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The southern Afghan district of Musa Qala was under the control of the Taliban overnight, the Afghan defence ministry has said as NATO-led forces said the situation was still unclear.
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Afghan soldiers and police overran a hideout where a large group of suspected Taliban were preparing to disrupt upcoming presidential elections, prompting a three-hour firefight that left seven insurgents dead, officials said Tuesday.
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A top NATO alliance general said yesterday that Afghanistan's Taliban militia has lost its ability to control large swaths of territory, even if the hard-line Islamic movement remains strong in "small pockets" of the country.
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The Afghan government and its NATO allies are preparing to take back a remote town occupied by the Taliban, who vowed to resist as residents fled fearing military strikes.
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Taleban rebels capture a district in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar after days of fierce fighting.
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An aid group in Afghanistan said it was considering pulling out of part of the country after Taliban militants attacked its compound in a southern town yesterday, killing three people and engaging authorities in a gun battle.
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Â· Attacks follow ambush on US-Afghan convoy  Â· Taliban accused of using families as shields.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A senior commander from  Afghanistan's Taliban militia previously held at a U.S. base in  Guantanamo Bay was killed by Afghan forces in the central  province of Uruzgan, a senior official said on Sunday.
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Taliban militants have killed three policemen and kidnapped three others after they attacked a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.
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NATO and Afghan troops killed 94 Taliban rebels in a major insurgent stronghold in southern Afghanistan while a respected provincial governor died in a suicide blast, officials said.
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A battle between police and Taliban left 20 suspected militants and two policemen dead in northwestern Afghanistan, while airstrikes and clashes left another 27 militants dead in the south, officials said Sunday.
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Taliban militants stormed the office of an Afghan relief organization early Sunday, killing three workers and wounding four police officers in a pre-dawn shootout that highlighted the country's continuing lack of stability, officials said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Since winter, the Taliban had been promising a spring offensive. It didn't come. Instead, NATO and US forces have pounded the group's positions, and killed its senior leadership.