6 Westerners die in Afghanistan fighting
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Fighting between NATO troops and Taliban fighters killed eight soldiers, including six Westerners, and 10 militants in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks are running at their highest level since the US invasion, officials said yesterday.
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AFGHANISTAN PANJWAYI -- Violence flared yesterday across southern Afghanistan, with seven suspected insurgents killed and a US-coalition soldier wounded in one clash, the US military said. Coalition warplanes, mortar fire, and small arms were used against suspected insurgents, killing seven, in the Kandahar district of Sperwan Ghar. In the Panjwayi, an insurgent rocket fell near Canadian troops, but there were ...
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Six Afghan militia fighters hired by US-led forces were killed in a landmine explosion in eastern Afghanistan blamed on Taliban guerillas, officials said Monday.
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Russian forces say they have killed six militants during clashes in the troubled southern republic of Dagestan.
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Fighting between government troops and Islamist insurgents in northern Mogadishu has killed at least six people including three family members, residents said on Tuesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- As NATO troops exert pressure on Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, militants have regrouped in western provinces and ignited violence that has killed a dozen people in two days, officials said yesterday.
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Twenty-three suspected militant fighters and seven soldiers have died in fighting on the Pakistan border with Afghanistan
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Six NATO soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle, the alliance said, the deadliest attack on the force this month in the country.
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A U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed some 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle after an ambush in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
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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 U.S. military said  on Friday.
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Roadside bombs and battles with Taliban forces killed six police and left 13 Taliban fighters dead or wounded in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
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Pakistani security forces  killed six pro-Taliban militants in fighting in North  Waziristan on Sunday, the military said, after overnight  battles left 13 rebels dead.
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At least six people were killed and six others injured in a Taliban militant attack on the main luxury hotel in Kabul on Monday while the Norwegian foreign minister was inside, officials said.
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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.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
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The US military says it killed six militants who had fired a rocket on an attack helicopter in southern Afghanistan. Officials say after insurgents in Zabul province fired on the helicopter, a US gunship returned fire, killing the six rebels.
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- Six Islamist fighters, including foreigners from Western countries, were killed in U.S. air strikes and battles with local forces in northern Somalia, a regional official said on Sunday.