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Taliban Shifted Western Hostages As Prisoner Swap Postponed: Report
A plan to swap two Western hostages with three Taliban prisoners has been postponed, an Afghan government official told Reuters on Friday, and Taliban sources said the group had moved the Westerners to a "new and safe place".
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Afghan Taliban Releases 3 Indian Hostages In Prisoner Swap Deal: Report
The Afghan Taliban said it has freed three Indian engineers held hostage for over a year in an exchange for securing the release of 11 of its members, including some high-ranking officials of the terrorist group, according to a media report on Monday.
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Afghan Hostage Says Ex-Husband's Abuse After Release "Just Like Captors"
A couple who split after a five-year hostage ordeal in Afghanistan faced each other in a Canadian court Wednesday at the husband's trial for sexually assaulting his wife.
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He Was Handcuffed But Afghan Hostage Stole A Gun, Shot 7 Taliban Captors Dead
An Afghan man taken hostage by the Taliban made a dramatic escape by stealing a gun while his captors were praying and shooting dead seven of them and wounding 18 others, officials said Thursday.
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American-Canadian Family Held Hostage For 5 Years By Taliban Freed, Says Pakistan
Five Western hostages, including three children, were recovered from terrorists with ties to the Afghan Taliban in an operation based on intelligence shared by the US after five years of their abduction, the Pakistan Army said today.
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US, Australian Hostages Appear In Afghan Taliban Video
An American and an Australian have appeared in a Taliban hostage video, five months after they were kidnapped from Kabul.
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Taliban Seize 15 Soldiers After Afghanistan Helicopter Crash
Fifteen soldiers including two foreigners were taken hostage by the Taliban on Tuesday after their helicopter crash-landed in northern Afghanistan, local officials and militant sources said.
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Taliban Hold Minority Hazaras Hostage for 'Stealing Sheep'
Afghan Taliban militants on Saturday kidnapped at least seven members of the minority Shiite Hazara community after a dispute over sheep, local authorities said.
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Islamic State Captive Buried Head of Fellow Hostage
Nine months of torture at the hands of Islamic State fighters, in which he buried the decapitated head of a fellow detainee, are written on the gaunt face of Afghan student Mohammed Yousuf.
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Kidnapped Afghan Professors, Students Released: Report
Militants from Afghanistan's eastern province of Ghazni released 24 out of 34 university professors and students they held hostage for nearly two weeks, an official said on Monday.
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Taliban Take Around 15 Afghan Policemen Hostage
Taliban militants took around 15 Afghan policemen hostage during an assault on a remote northern district, officials said, adding that security forces flushed out the insurgents from the volatile area on Saturday.
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Police Say Taliban Kidnap 27 Afghan Officers
Taliban fighters kidnapped 27 police officers during an assault on a northeastern province in Afghanistan, authorities said Thursday, part of the extremist group's spring offensive ahead of the withdrawal of foreign troops at the end of this year.
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Taliban 'releases kidnapped Afghan female MP', militants say
The Taliban claimed on Saturday that an Afghan female MP held hostage by the militant group since August 10 has been freed in exchange for six prisoners who were relatives of their fighters.
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Taliban suicide bombers attack hotel in Kabul, take hostages
Three suicide bombers attacked a lakeside hotel north of Kabul, taking hostages and staging an hours-long gunbattle with Afghan security forces, police said Friday. The bombers, armed with machines guns, rocket-propelled grenades and vests laden with explosives, attacked the Spozhmai hotel at Qargha Lake around 11 p.m. Thursday night and fighting ...
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Hostages held in attack on Afghan govt building
Teams of suicide bombers and insurgents attacked two government buildings in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
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Taliban Shifted Western Hostages As Prisoner Swap Postponed: Report
A plan to swap two Western hostages with three Taliban prisoners has been postponed, an Afghan government official told Reuters on Friday, and Taliban sources said the group had moved the Westerners to a "new and safe place".
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Afghan Taliban Releases 3 Indian Hostages In Prisoner Swap Deal: Report
The Afghan Taliban said it has freed three Indian engineers held hostage for over a year in an exchange for securing the release of 11 of its members, including some high-ranking officials of the terrorist group, according to a media report on Monday.
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Afghan Hostage Says Ex-Husband's Abuse After Release "Just Like Captors"
A couple who split after a five-year hostage ordeal in Afghanistan faced each other in a Canadian court Wednesday at the husband's trial for sexually assaulting his wife.
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He Was Handcuffed But Afghan Hostage Stole A Gun, Shot 7 Taliban Captors Dead
An Afghan man taken hostage by the Taliban made a dramatic escape by stealing a gun while his captors were praying and shooting dead seven of them and wounding 18 others, officials said Thursday.
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American-Canadian Family Held Hostage For 5 Years By Taliban Freed, Says Pakistan
Five Western hostages, including three children, were recovered from terrorists with ties to the Afghan Taliban in an operation based on intelligence shared by the US after five years of their abduction, the Pakistan Army said today.
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US, Australian Hostages Appear In Afghan Taliban Video
An American and an Australian have appeared in a Taliban hostage video, five months after they were kidnapped from Kabul.
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Taliban Seize 15 Soldiers After Afghanistan Helicopter Crash
Fifteen soldiers including two foreigners were taken hostage by the Taliban on Tuesday after their helicopter crash-landed in northern Afghanistan, local officials and militant sources said.
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Taliban Hold Minority Hazaras Hostage for 'Stealing Sheep'
Afghan Taliban militants on Saturday kidnapped at least seven members of the minority Shiite Hazara community after a dispute over sheep, local authorities said.
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Islamic State Captive Buried Head of Fellow Hostage
Nine months of torture at the hands of Islamic State fighters, in which he buried the decapitated head of a fellow detainee, are written on the gaunt face of Afghan student Mohammed Yousuf.
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Kidnapped Afghan Professors, Students Released: Report
Militants from Afghanistan's eastern province of Ghazni released 24 out of 34 university professors and students they held hostage for nearly two weeks, an official said on Monday.
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Taliban Take Around 15 Afghan Policemen Hostage
Taliban militants took around 15 Afghan policemen hostage during an assault on a remote northern district, officials said, adding that security forces flushed out the insurgents from the volatile area on Saturday.
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Police Say Taliban Kidnap 27 Afghan Officers
Taliban fighters kidnapped 27 police officers during an assault on a northeastern province in Afghanistan, authorities said Thursday, part of the extremist group's spring offensive ahead of the withdrawal of foreign troops at the end of this year.
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Taliban 'releases kidnapped Afghan female MP', militants say
The Taliban claimed on Saturday that an Afghan female MP held hostage by the militant group since August 10 has been freed in exchange for six prisoners who were relatives of their fighters.
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Taliban suicide bombers attack hotel in Kabul, take hostages
Three suicide bombers attacked a lakeside hotel north of Kabul, taking hostages and staging an hours-long gunbattle with Afghan security forces, police said Friday. The bombers, armed with machines guns, rocket-propelled grenades and vests laden with explosives, attacked the Spozhmai hotel at Qargha Lake around 11 p.m. Thursday night and fighting ...
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Hostages held in attack on Afghan govt building
Teams of suicide bombers and insurgents attacked two government buildings in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
