Afghanistan says Taliban held over suicide bomb plotAfghanistan says Taliban held over suicide bomb plot
  KABUL: Afghan authorities said on Friday they have arrested five Taliban insurgents who were planning suicide attacks on civilians in the capital Kabul and another city later this month. Police arrested the four men and one woman in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Thursday and seized four suicide bomb vests and C-4 explosives along with other weapons, the interior ministry said. “They were trained outside Afghanistan’s..
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Taliban in Qatar see no early peace talks with US Taliban in Qatar see no early peace talks with US
DOHA: Taliban leaders living in Qatar have held no Afghanistan peace talks with US officials in the Gulf state for more than a year and see no prospect of any soon, Taliban sources say. A team of envoys from the Islamist insurgent group flew to Qatar in early 2012 to open talks with the US government, which has laid a greater emphasis on negotiations before a handover of security to Afghan forces in 2014. Among the most prominent..
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Taliban vow revenge over Guantanamo shootingsTaliban vow revenge over Guantanamo shootings
KABUL: The Taliban on Thursday pledged to take revenge on US troops in Afghanistan after guards at Guantanamo prison fired non-lethal rounds at inmates to quell unrest. Guards at the US-run prison in Cuba fired the rounds last Saturday to halt unrest as they relocated inmates into individual cells, US military officials said. Officials met with resistance from some detainees as they moved inmates from communal housing to individual..
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24 killed in attacks across Afghanistan 24 killed in attacks across Afghanistan
KABUL: Roadside bombs and insurgent attacks killed at least 24 people in five separate attacks across Afghanistan as violence steadily rises during this year’s spring fighting season, officials said on Wednesday.     So far, April has been the deadliest month this year for Afghan and foreign civilians and security forces. According to an Associated Press tally, 182 people have been killed in violence around the nation..
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Taliban bomb kills seven Afghan civilians: officialTaliban bomb kills seven Afghan civilians: official
KABUL: A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban tore through a van in western Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing seven civilians and wounding three others, a provincial official said. The civilians were travelling to the town of Shindand in Herat province when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device often used in Taliban attacks on troops, said Mohidin Noori, a provincial government spokesman. “It was the work of..
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Seven members of a family killed in Zabul blast Seven members of a family killed in Zabul blast
KABUL: Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed at least seven members of a family travelling in a trailer towed by a tractor in southern Afghanistan. The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the vehicle hit the bomb on a road in the Mali Zai region of Zabul province just after daybreak on Monday. It said four other people were wounded by the blast, which the ministry blamed on the Taliban. A spokesman for the provincial..
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Tensions rise over Afghan, Pakistan border disputeTensions rise over Afghan, Pakistan border dispute
  KABUL: Hundreds of Afghan university students in the eastern city of Jalalabad took to the streets on Monday to protest the building of a Pakistani military gate in what the Afghan defence ministry says is inside Afghanistan. The incident is the latest in rising tensions between the two sides, whose attempts to lure the Taliban to the peace table have stalled amid their feuding. Pakistani support for the Afghan peace process..
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Afghan roadside bomb kills seven civilians: officialsAfghan roadside bomb kills seven civilians: officials
KABUL: A roadside bomb hit a tractor in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing seven civilians and wounding four others, officials said. The tractor and trailer hit the anti-vehicle mine in the Mali Zai area of Zabul province, the ministry of interior said in a statement. “Seven civilians were killed and four other civilians were wounded. The wounded were taken to the hospital by Afghan National Police,” the statement..
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Taliban, US army responsible for civilian casualties in Kunar: Karzai Taliban, US army responsible for civilian casualties in Kunar: Karzai
KABUL: Both Taliban insurgents and the US military were to blame for an airstrike a week ago that killed 17 people, including a dozen children, during a fierce battle in eastern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said Saturday.     Karzai made his comments after an Afghan investigation into the April 6 attack raised the civilian death toll from 11 to 17, including 12 children, four women and one innocent man. An American..
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Taliban attack kills 13 Afghan soldiersTaliban attack kills 13 Afghan soldiers
  KABUL: The Defense Ministry says Taliban militants have attacked an army outpost near the border with Pakistan, killing 13 soldiers.     Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi says the fighting began around dawn Friday in the Nari district of Kunar province. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack and say they have captured the outpost. -- Agencies ..
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Four killed in Afghanistan bomb blasts Four killed in Afghanistan bomb blasts
KABUL: Two separate roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan have killed four people, including a district police chief, Afghan officials said.   A spokesman for the provincial governor in southern Uruzgan province, Abdullah Himmat, says a bomb killed the police chief of the Chora district and two of his bodyguards while they were on patrol early Thursday. Ummar Zawaq, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand, says a roadside..
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Nato helicopter crashes in Afghanistan killing two US soldiersNato helicopter crashes in Afghanistan killing two US soldiers
  KABUL: A Nato helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday killing two US troops, officials said, adding there was no insurgent activity in the area at the time of the incident. Taliban militants said they had shot down the helicopter, but the group often makes exaggerated claims of success on the battlefield against Nato forces and the US-backed government. “Two International Security Assistance Force service..
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