A Pakistani government official said Friday that Taliban insurgents had withdrawn from a district near Islamabad, but a human rights group said local Taliban remained. And senior U.S. officials cautioned that any withdrawal by the Taliban was likely meaningless and that the fundamentalist group now holds large areas of the country with the government seemingly unable to stop them.
Clinton in Baghdad amid new reports of attacksU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Baghdad on Saturday, a day after suicide bombings killed dozens in the Iraqi capital.
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