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The group, which has claimed a series of attacks in recent weeks, raised its flag after attacks on police Thursday.

Insurgents assaulted Kandahar Air Base, the main military base in southern Afghanistan, on Saturday night, military officials said, in the second attack on a major base in a week.

Western military officials acknowledge that none of those in a car fired on by soldiers had links to the insurgency.

Suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 45 people in Lahore on Friday, officials said, in a challenge to government assertions that crackdowns have weakened Taliban insurgents.

President Barack Obama praised the Iraqi people for passing "an important milestone" Sunday, when millions turned out for national elections despite insurgent attacks that killed more than 30 people....

In a daring midday raid that showed insurgents' ability to strike Pakistan's military virtually at will, militants today stormed a Rawalpindi mosque filled with military officers and a group of children, killing at least 37 people with a combination of gunfire, grenades and suicide bomb blasts.

Twelve Afghans died when insurgents fired two rockets into a crowded market northeast of Kabul where the head of French forces was holding a meeting with tribal elders.

Insurgents are increasingly using teenagers to stage attacks against American and Iraqi security forces, the U.S. military said Saturday.

Pakistan pounded Taliban hideouts for a third consecutive day Thursday and said troops killed 14 insurgents in 24 hours as the president urged the nation to unite behind the offensive.