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                   US Offers New Rewards for Haqqani Leaders

   by VOA News

   The U.S. State Department has offered new rewards for information on
   four key leaders of the Islamist group militant Haqqani Network, and
   increased the reward for the group's top leader.

   The Haqqani Network is a Pakistan-based group allied with al-Qaida and
   the Taliban.  It is considered the most lethal group targeting
   international forces in Afghanistan and was designated a foreign
   terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department in 2012.

   The State Department ((
   http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/230778.htm )) on Wednesday raised
   the reward for information on the group's leader Sirajuddin Haqqani
   from $5 million to up to $10 million.

   The United States also authorized rewards of up to $5 million each for
   information leading to the location of Aziz Haqqani, Sirajuddin's
   brother; Khalil al-Rahman Haqqani, Sirajuddin's uncle; Yahya Haqqani,
   Sirajuddin's brother-in-law; and Abdul Rauf Zakir, the group's chief of
   suicide operations.
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