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KANDAHAR (AIP): A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf has said that they would free the remaining seven South Korean hostages after a few minutes and will also release a message of the Taliban for the South Korean government.
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban freed four more of remaining seven South Korean hostages including two women and men on Thursday evening (August 30), Haji Zahir a tribal leader. He confirmed that the four were handed over them by the Taliban. He expressed the hope that the remaining three would be release...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban freed the remaining three South Korean hostages and handed them over the tribal elders in central Afghanistan on Thursday, said a Taliban spokesman. With the release of these three South Koreans now there is no hostage in the captivity of the Taliban.
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Taliban say to free a group of hostages August 29, 2007 KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban said Wednesday that a group of South Koran hostages will be freed today (Wednesday), August 29. A Taliban spokesman Qari Mohamad Yousaf told AIP over phone that according to the agreement reached with Korean official...
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KABUL (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Aug. 29) said that five more Korean hostages would be freed today. A purported Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf Ahmadi told AIP that a five more South Korean hostages would be released shortly today. He did not mention a specific time of the release bu...
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KHOST (AIP): Six people including two soldiers of the Afghan National Army were killed in a suicide explosion in Paktika province today (Aug. 29), an official said Wednesday. The suicide bomber detonated himself in Barmal bazar, at approximately 11:00 a.m. local time, killing himself, two ANA tro...
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KANDAHAR (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Aug. 29) released another group of five South Korean hostages which raised the number of freed hostages to eight today. Taliban handed over five more Korean hostages including a four women and a man to us who will be turned over to ICRC near Ghazni city, Haji M...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban have agreed to release four more South Korean hostages today (Aug. 29), a tribal elder said Wednesday. "We have turned in a total of eight hostages to ICRC and South Korea officials but South Korea was insisting on the release of two more hostages today," said Haji Muhammad Za...
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GHAZNI (AIP): Taliban on Wednesday (Aug. 29) released a third group of four South Korean hostages which raised the number of hostages freed today to 12. The third group of four more South Korean hostages consisting of three women and a male was turn in to us by Taliban, Haji Muhammad Zaher, a tri...
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QALAT (AIP): Troops of Afghan National Army (ANA) detained seven Taliban in the Pattan district of Paktia province yesterday (Aug. 28), an officer said Wednesday. A local Taliban commander named Zaker Shah was also among the seven suspected detained Taiban, said Colonal Muhammad Gul, public relat...