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Afghan authorities have arrested and handed over to US forces a Taliban official suspected of orchestrating raids in which two dozen people, including aid workers, have died, officials said on Sunday. Mohammad Younis, former chief of the ousted Taliban's customs department at Kabul airport, was captured from his home in Nawzad district in the southern province of Helmand during a raid on Saturday, they said. "We then handed him over to the Americans who had requested it," Helmand's intelligence chief, Dad Mohammad Khan, said. "We suspect that Younis has been leading the attacks in various parts of Helmand. But we...

U.S. Captures Big Afghan Arms Cache, Detain Seven Thu Sep 19, 7:39 AM ET BAGRAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. special forces have captured seven men suspected of being Taliban fighters and truckloads of weapons in an operation near the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The arms found at Orgun-e, about 109 miles south of Kabul on Wednesday filled three trucks and included rockets, mines and two anti-aircraft guns, U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King said. He called it "a significant haul." "The anti-aircraft weapons are probably particularly significant in that we do a lot of movement...