Sentence examples for looking for taliban from inspiring English sources

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He added that he had finally stopped looking for Taliban on every rooftop.

But the former Central Command official said: "If we were not in Iraq, we would have double or triple the number of Predators across Afghanistan, looking for Taliban and peering into the tribal areas.

Enraged by the bombing, men from surrounding villages began looking for Taliban militants and their supporters, burning houses and killing at least 11 men they identified as Taliban fighters, according to accounts from seven local residents, including one who took part in the fighting.

As U.S. soldiers march over the mountains of Afghanistan, they lug in backpacks contraptions that look more like model planes than military equipment: flying drones that can buzz over ridges and mountains, looking for Taliban and terrorists.

Last July, Afghan special forces raided the hospital looking for Taliban fighters, a move that MSF protested vigorously at the time.

And, besides, why aren't those drones flying over Afghanistan looking for Taliban who want to kill us instead of pinpointing prospective kitchen workers and fruit pickers and gardeners and nannies?

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"The Americans say that 'We were looking for a Taliban commander by the name of Yusuf,' " she said.

"NATO troops always have a choice about whether to go looking for the Taliban — and accepting the inevitable casualties.

Every dawn after prayer, the soldiers would pile into unarmored pickup trucks, waving huge Afghan flags and rifles, then drive down the most dangerous roads in the country looking for the Taliban.

On Feb. 12 in a village near Gardez, in Paktia Province, Afghan police special forces paired with American Special Operations forces raided a house late at night looking for two Taliban suspects, and instead killed a local police chief and a district prosecutor when they came out, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, to investigate.

United States Special Operations forces entered the village under cover of darkness looking for a known Taliban insurgent, Gul Pacha, who was killed in the raid, along with a visitor to his home, another Taliban member, Bahadur Khan.

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