...and causing civilian and security force casualties. There were also scattered small-arms attacks on several government ministries, a Kabul police official said. Three security personnel were killed as they...

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...of Kabul, power base of the feeble central government led by Karzai. Al-Qaida leaders have regrouped near the Pakistan-Afghan border. The United States and its NATO allies are sending 37,000 more troops in a...

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...an attack aimed at unnerving the Afghan capital. The attack was repulsed, but not before three members of the security forces and two civilians were killed. On Monday night, four police officers were killed...

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...central government led by Karzai. Al-Qaida leaders, on the run for eight years, have regrouped, their tentacles grasping beyond their base near the Pakistan-Afghan border. The conflict is at a crossroads,...

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...was installing new members to his cabinet. While the numbers of killed and injured were mild by Afghanistan standards, the dead terrorists had delivered their message. The Taliban was still a force with which to...

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...shopping mall Taliban suicide bombers attacked a Kabul shopping mall near the Afghan Presidential Palace on Monday, setting the building on fire and causing civilian and security force casualties. There were also...

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At least 12 people are killed in capital during five hours KABUL, Afghanistan | Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings...

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...Taliban militants attacked several places in the heart of Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban suicide bombers attack Kabul shopping mall Taliban suicide bombers attacked a Kabul shopping mall near the Afghan...

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...including three U.N. staff. PHOTOS: Taliban militants attack Kabul Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told the Associated Press that 20 armed militants, including some with suicide vests, had entered Kabul...

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Fires raged after two shopping centres, a cinema and Kabul's only five-star hotel were targeted by heavily armed militants who set off a wave of explosions apparently targeting nearby government buildings.

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...with security forces and killing at least five people including a child. Fires raged after two shopping centres, a cinema and the only five-star hotel in the Afghan capital were targeted by heavily armed...

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...new efforts by the Afghan government to get insurgents to defect. Explosions rocked the capital as two of the attackers detonated suicide vests. Gun battles raged for more than five hours near the gates of the...

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Jan. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Taliban guerrillas attacked key ministries near the presidential palace in Kabul in their broadest assault on the government of Hamid Karzai since losing power in 2001. "A group of Taliban...

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...power in 2001. Troops exchanged gunfire with militants for more than three hours before President Hamid Karzai declared that security had been restored, Agence France-Presse reported. Five people died and...

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Heavy fighting has broken out in the centre of the Afghan capital after a wave of up to 20 Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers launched a series of attacks on government buildings. Published: 9:01AM GMT 18 Jan...

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...public support, the U.S. special envoy to the region said Saturday. Richard Holbrooke, making his sixth trip to Afghanistan in the past year, said the ruthlessness of militants like Hakimullah Mehsud, the...

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...incidents in Afghanistan, officials said Friday. NATO confirmed that the American died Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, but provided no other details. Nine members of the Afghan National Police were...

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