Afghan strongmen tame Taliban bastion
ZANGIABAD, Afghanistan—A captured Taliban rifle dangling at his side, commander Sultan Mohammed swaggers through a bomb-cratered district that was once ...
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Four Afghan, two Spanish policemen killed by Taliban
Kabul—At least four Afghan policemen and two Spaniards were killed in an hours-long Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in ...
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