Taliban ambush kills 15 US guards
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Attack on convoy of fuel tankers in Afghanistan leaves 15 guards employed by US security firm dead
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants ambushed US-led coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, sparking a 10-hour battle and airstrikes that killed an estimated two dozen militants, the coalition said yesterday. Villagers said seven civilians were among the dead.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in the country's volatile south yesterday, killing 19 of the laborers, while Afghan and NATO forces said they killed 35 Taliban militants in two separate firefights.
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Taliban militants ambushed U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces escorting supply trucks in southern Afghanistan, sparking a 10-hour battle the coalition said killed an estimated two dozen militants, though villagers said Monday seven civilians also died.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Up to 40 US soldiers streamed out of a CH-47 Chinook in an air assault on a Taliban position in southern Afghanistan shortly before the helicopter crashed, officials said yesterday, killing five Americans, a Briton, and a Canadian.
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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Fifteen Pakistani soldiers were killed when their convoy was hit by a suspected militant roadside blast in the northern district of Swat on Thursday, police said.
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KABUL - US-led coalition and Afghan security forces aided by airstrikes killed about 25 suspected militants during raids on a Taliban command center in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said yesterday. The joint force targeted two compounds southwest of Kandahar city Saturday after weeks of observing the area, it said. The clashes killed 25 suspected militants, it said.
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The U.S. military said on Monday coalition forces had killed 15 suspected militants during an operation to tackle al Qaeda in central Iraq.
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Several Taliban fighters were killed in a firefight with Afghan security forces in the southeast province of Khost near the border with Pakistan, the US military said on Friday.
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About 10-15 people were killed when a truck bomb ripped through downtown Kabul in an attack targetting a US security firm, a police officer at the scene told AFP.
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A suicide bomber walked into a packed restaurant in southeastern Afghanistan and set off his explosives, killing 15 other people and wounding 25.
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KABUL : Twenty-two suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants, including three Arabs, were killed in a fierce gun-battle with US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, the US military said.
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GAUHATI -- Fifteen police officers were killed yesterday when suspected rebels ambushed their patrol , officials said. Sixty armed officers in the Bishenpur District were traveling in six vehicles when rebels fired on them. The rebels fled into a forest.
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Afghan security forces backed by US helicopter gunships stormed a Taliban safe house, killing one man and capturing 15 others, in an attempt to curb attacks ahead of this weekâs presidential election, officials said on Sunday.
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About 15 rebels have been killed by Iraqi and US forces over a 24-hour period in Mosul, while the United States plans Friday to further strengthen troops in Iraq.
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The Turkish army on Sunday killed 15 Kurdish rebels in an operation in the eastern province of Tunceli, the CNN Turk news channel reported.
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Taliban fighters killed 15 Afghan guards working for a U.S. security company who were guarding a convoy of fuel tankers in western Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday. Six Taliban were killed in the ensuing fight.