Taliban overrun remote district
KABUL: About 300 Taliban fighters on Tuesday overran the tiny capital of a remote and mountainous district in northeast Afghanistan, forcing police to retreat from their small outpost in the area, an official said. Nuristan provincial police chief Shamsul Rahman said the insurgents took control of the main village in rugged Waygal district during a pre-dawn raid.
Indonesian suspect captured in Pak
JAKARTA: A senior Indonesian al-Qaeda terror suspect wanted in the 2002 Bali bombings has been arrested in Pakistan, regional intelligence sources said Tuesday. Few details were released about the arrest of Umar Patek. News of his arrest came from two intelligence officials — one in Indonesia and the other in the Philippines — who said Tuesday that Patek was taken into custody in Pakistan earlier this year.
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