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Joint forces kill Herat Taliban commander who sheltered al Qaeda
US and Afghan forces killed 28 Taliban fighters and detained nine more in Kandahar province. The Taliban killed three Afghan soldiers in an IED attack in Paktia province. President Karzai said helicopters have been shuttling Taliban fighters and other terrorists into northern Afghanistan.
Recon in Helmand
Joint forces assault al Qaeda base in Afghan East
US and Afghan forces killed 18 extremists and detained one during a raid on an al Qaeda base in the mountains in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan. An al Qaeda commander was the target of the attack.An early account of the battle at Camp Keating
Taliban commander involved in Nuristan attack thought killed
Afghan officials said Mullah Abdul Rahman Mostaghni, a district-level commander, was killed in a raid over the weekend. The US military has not confirmed the report.Taliban cannot be split from al-Qaeda, Obama warned
The UN's top envoy said there was "widespread fraud" in the presidential election. Coalition and Afghan forces killed 12 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in Kunar, killed and captured "several" Taliban fighters in Helmand, detained 15 Taliban fighters in Kunduz, and captured four Haqqani Network fighters in Paktia. Afghan troops captured a Taliban spokesman and three fighters in Herat. A police chief and a policeman were killed while defusing a mine in Paktika.
Pakistan plotted Kabul embassy attack: Afghanistan
A dogged Taliban chief rebounds, vexing US
Pak's great game: Evict India from Afghanistan through terror
Emerging strategy calls for weakening, not routing, Taliban
Adviser: At least 25,000 more troops needed for Afghanistan
Britain building Pakistan border force camp: report
Afghan and Coalition forces killed six Taliban fighters in Wardak province and detained seven more in Kunduz. Fifty Taliban fighters in Kunduz joined the government. The Taliban killed two Polish soldiers and one US soldier in IED attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan, and killed an Afghan Army officer in Kunduz. An ISAF UAV crashed in Kunduz.
Taliban 'have control of another district in eastern Afghanistan'
"This means they are not coming back," a Taliban spokesman said after US troops abandoned two outposts after a deadly battle in Nuristan. "This is another victory for Taliban."Afghanistan: Shadows in the Shuryak Valley
Taliban claim victory in Kamdesh after attack on US Camp Keating
US: Taliban has grown fourfold
Senior insurgent leader reported killed in Western Afghanistan
Ghulam Yahya Akbari, the "Tajik Taliban," was reported killed with a dozen of his followers. Akbari was once an ally of the Karzai regime and served as a provincial minister in Herat.
