Kidnapped Turkish engineer killed in Afghanistan
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KABUL: The latest abduction of a foreigner in Afghanistan, a Turkish engineer working on a US-sponsored road construction project, ended when the kidnappers killed him, apparently so he wouldnât slow them down with police hot on their trail.
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A NATO soldier was killed by friendly   fire and several more wounded on Monday during a major   offensive to crush a resurgent Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
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A British soldier serving with the NATO force in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has died in an accident at a military base there, the Ministry of Defence in London told AFP.
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A foreign soldier went missing on Wednesday in Afghanistan and the country's Taliban movement said it had kidnapped him.
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A man suspected of involvement in the abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody last week and authorities are investigating whether he was tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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An Indonesian engineer working for Germany-based telecommunication giant Siemens was killed in a shootout in the Iraqi town of Mosul, reports said Monday.
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A NATO soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan on Monday after an explosion, the alliance's U.N.-mandated Afghan security force said on Tuesday.
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A man suspected of involvement in the  abduction of three U.N. workers in Afghanistan died in custody  last week and authorities are investigating whether he was  tortured to death, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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KANDAHAR - Afghan forces in the central province of Uruzgan killed a senior commander from Afghanistanâs Taleban militia previously held at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, a senior official said on Sunday.
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A Taliban leader has been killed in Afghanistan, the country's government said today, as the deaths of a British soldier and a civilian translator were confirmed after an explosion in the country's south.
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The body of a kidnapped Turkish construction engineer was found in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday. Ayub was shot dead less than 24 hours after being abducted by a militant gang on Tuesday on the road between Jalalabad and Kunar province.
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A British soldier is killed and two others are injured in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released unharmed, officials say. A senior Afghan official told the BBC one of the kidnappers had been killed and four others seriously wounded in a military operation.
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A British soldier has died in Helmand province of Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence.
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Islamic militants in Iraq apparently have killed a Turkish man whom they took hostage last month. Mr. Kumdereli was abducted with another Turkish truck driver in mid-August.
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Afghan police killed a Taliban militant alleged to be behind the July kidnappings of 23 South Korean church workers, authorities said Tuesday. Up to 27 other insurgents were also slain, while separate suicide attacks killed three police officers.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Afghan forces said Tuesday that they killed a Taliban commander behind the kidnapping of South Korean church workers, less than a week after the hostages were let go under a deal seen as a propaganda coup for the hard-line Islamic militia.