| October 13, 2008 | -
Taliban militants attacked Lashkar Gah, in the opium-rich Helmand province of Afghanistan. NATO responded with airstrikes that killed 62 insurgents, and 40 more were killed in another battle in the region. Villagers in Nad Ali, six miles away, claimed the airstrikes had also killed civilians, and they protested by carrying 12 corpses to the home of the local governor. The Taliban then seized a bus that they said was en route to Lashkar Gah, executed at least 24 passengers, and beheaded at least six.
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| September 8, 2008 | - American missiles struck a seminary in Pakistan, killing twenty people, including two children, but not Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani.
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Washington Post
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| September 5, 2008 | -
Paris Match published a glossy eight-page spread of Taliban fighters wearing the uniforms of the French soldiers they had killed.
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Telegraph
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| June 16, 2008 | -
Taliban forces raided a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, allowing 870 prisoners to escape. Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened to send troops across the Pakistan border to fight the Taliban.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| April 28, 2008 | - Suspected Taliban assailants in Kabul killed a tribal chief, a member of Parliament, and a ten-year-old boy in an attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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International Herald-Tribune
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| July 15, 2007 | - Militants in northwest Pakistan, misleadingly calling themselves the Taliban, tore up a peace treaty and killed at least 70 people in a series of bombings.
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| June 10, 2007 | - The Taliban fired rockets at Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he gave a speech to some elders. Karzai paused to quiet the audience after the rockets landed a few hundred yards away, then finished his speech.
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Washington Post
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| May 13, 2007 | - The corpse of Mullah Dadullah, a one-legged Taliban commander, was displayed for reporters. According to the New York Times, he was wearing “an ordinary shoe.”
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NYT
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| February 11, 2007 | -
American forces, targeting Taliban fighters, launched artillery rounds into Pakistan.
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Breitbart
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| February 2, 2007 | -
Taliban forces were on the rise in Afghanistan,.
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BBC
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| December 11, 2006 | - The Taliban established a “mini-state” in Peshawar.
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NYT
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| October 25, 2006 | -
German soldiers serving in Afghanistan snapped commemorative photographs of themselves with the skull of a reputed Taliban militant.
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Deutsche-Welle
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| September 20, 2006 | - In Afghanistan,
Marine General James L. Jones claimed to have killed as many as a third of the Taliban's “hardcore” fighters, leaving only the “weekend warriors.”
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New York times
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| September 5, 2006 | - “Little America,” a model city built in Afghanistan during the Cold War, came under attack by Taliban forces. “Our government is weak,” said one resident. “Anarchy has come.”
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New York Times
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| May 3, 2006 | - In Afghanistan the power of the Taliban was growing.
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The New York Times
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| April 15, 2006 | - Officials in Afghanistan said that 41 Taliban and six police officers had been killed in fighting in the Helmand province; a Taliban spokesman claimed 15 Afghan police and one Taliban were killed.
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Al Jazeera
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| March 3, 2006 | - The Pentagon released the names of the inmates at Guantánamo Bay as part of 5,000 pages of hearing transcripts; one man, Abdur Sayed Rahman, a Pakistani chicken farmer, was apparently held because his name was similar to that of Taliban deputy minister Abdur Zahid Rahman.
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ABC News
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| February 26, 2006 | - President George W. Bush threatened to veto any congressional measure that slowed the acquisition of between six and 22 U.S. seaports by Dubai Ports World, a United Arab Emirates-controlled firm. Critics of the acquisition pointed out that the United Arab Emirates was home to two of the September 11 hijackers and was one of few countries to recognize the Taliban. Dubai Ports World subsequently agreed to a 45-day review of the deal, which will provide the Bush Administration with more time to promote the takeover.
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
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| October 20, 2005 | - A video recording was released that showed U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan shouting insults through a loudspeaker after setting alight the corpses of two Taliban fighters. "Wow, look at the blood coming out of the mouth on that one," said a soldier. "Fucking straight death metal."
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The Guardian
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| October 3, 2005 | - Thirty-one suspected Taliban members were killed in fighting in Afghanistan.
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BBC News
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| July 10, 2005 | - In Afghanistan, the Taliban beheaded ten Afghan soldiers and killed a Navy SEAL.
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The Guardian
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| April 7, 2005 | - Eighteen people died when a U.S. helicopter crashed in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed they shot down the helicopter; the United States blamed bad weather.
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BBC News
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Chicago Tribune
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| August 29, 2004 | - Several people died in a truck bombing in front of a security company in Kabul; the Taliban claimed responsibility.
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Reuters
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| June 28, 2004 | - In Afghanistan, Taliban fighters killed fourteen unarmed men for registering to vote.
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New York Times
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| March 1, 2004 | -
Taliban soldiers were going house to house in the village of Shah Joy, in the Zabul province of Afghanistan, searching for Karzai supporters to kill.
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PakTribune.com
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| February 27, 2004 | -
Afghan president Hamid Karzai declared that the Taliban has finally been defeated.
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New York Times
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| February 23, 2004 | -
Pakistan was preparing for a spring offensive against the Taliban.
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New York Times
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| August 0, 2000 | - A draft U.S. National Intelligence Estimate reported that the government of Afghanistan, plagued by corruption and at war with a resurgent Taliban, is in a “downward spiral.”
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The New York Times
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