Afghanistan

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Taliban chief 'captured doing secret deal'
The Taliban’s deputy leader was holding secret talks with the Afghan government when he was captured in Pakistan, and his arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, it emerged today.4 days ago
At least 30 dead in Kandahar blast
A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations in Afghanistan today, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.
Recent Headlines
- 13/03/2010Four blasts hit southern Afghanistan city
- 13/03/2010Afghan leader to allow foreign election monitors
- 13/03/2010Roadside bomb kills six Afghan civilians
- 11/03/2010Miliband urges Kabul to pursue peaceful settlement
- 11/03/2010Karzai wants Taliban commander extradited
- 07/03/2010Karzai bombarded with complaints on 'meet the people' trip
- 07/03/201050 dead in Taliban clashes
- 06/03/2010British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan
- 06/03/2010Afghan 'civilian surge' bogged down by red tape
- 01/03/2010Four Nato troops killed in Afghanistan
- 27/02/2010Afghanistan offensive 'going well' despite casualties
- 26/02/2010Kabul suicide bombs kill 17
- 26/02/2010At least ten dead in Kabul bomb attacks
- 25/02/2010Taliban lose control of key stronghold
- 23/02/2010Allied commander apologises for deadly airstrike
- 22/02/2010Nato admits accidentally killing Afghan civilians
- 22/02/2010Bomber kills Bin Laden's enemy
- 22/02/2010Afghanistan: Civilians killed in Nato airstrike
- 21/02/2010Dutch troops to withdraw from Afghanistan
- 21/02/2010Karzai urges restraint
- 19/02/2010Taliban commander's brother killed by US missile
- 19/02/2010Taliban commander's son 'killed in missile strike'
- 19/02/2010US Marines in reconnaissance mission behind Taliban lines
- 18/02/2010Raids capture more Taliban leaders
- 18/02/2010Two more top Taliban arrested
- 17/02/2010Soldiers capture heart of Taliban stronghold
- 17/02/2010Taliban 'using human shields' in assault
- 16/02/2010Three civilians killed as Afghan assault continues
- 15/02/2010Civilians killed in Kandahar airstrike

