Taliban insurgents take more than 100 Afghans hostage, then free most of them
by Sultan Faizy And Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
Aug 20, 2018
2 minutes
KABUL, Afghanistan - A day after President Ashraf Ghani announced another unilateral cease-fire, Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of buses in northern Afghanistan on Monday and held more than 100 people hostage for several hours.
By day's end, all but 12 had been released following negotiations between the insurgents
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