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...with their loved ones, reports surfaced of Haqqanis coordinated attacks around Afghanistan, including Kabul, Nangarhar, Paktia and Logar provinces.The U.S. puppet of Afghanistan "President Hamid Karzai said Monday the attacks were an 'intelligence...
...rescue. The power struggle for Gardez, the capital of strategic Paktia province, triggered the worst fighting in Afghanistan since...forced fighters loyal to Karzai's newly appointed governor for Paktia, warlord Bacha Khan, to retreat into the surrounding mountains...
...Gardez by force after being appointed governor of surrounding Paktia province, fell silent at dusk Thursday, and did not resume...root out fugitive Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in surrounding Paktia province, southeast of Kabul.
...a deep complex of tunnels at Zawar, in the rugged hills of Paktia province near the border with Pakistan, have been under way...peacekeepers arrived Monday in Ghazni province, to the west of Paktia, and U.S. helicopters were seen flying over the highway...
...said Thursday. The most recent attack involved four rockets and occurred early Thursday outside Gardez in the southeastern Paktia province, said Col. Roger King at Bagram Air Base, the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. One rocket struck about...
...the war, the U.S. commander said Wednesday. Several hundred more American troops were deployed in the rugged terrain of Paktia province -- bringing their number to more than 1,000 -- as were fresh forces from their Afghan allies. Working at altitudes...
...acknowledged the attack and said it may have killed a leader of the terrorist network. Bad weather in the mountainous region in Paktia province has hampered efforts to get to the attack site and investigate the damage, said Wazir Khan, a brother of regional...
...billowing over Gardez. The battles also complicate U.S. efforts to root out fugitive Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in Paktia province. The running battle pitted troops loyal to Bacha Khan, a local warlord aligned to Afghanistan's interim administration...
...soldiers' names were not released pending notification of relatives. The Khost area, about 90 miles southeast of Kabul in Paktia province, is regarded as one of the most insecure in the country and forces of the U.S.-led coalition have repeatedly...
...repeatedly in areas around Khost in eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province. U.S. special forces teams are on the ground in...We're finding stuff, and we're attacking that stuff." Paktia province long has been known as an area where al-Qaida terrorists...