Ten Taliban killed in Afghan firefights: U.S. military
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops killed 10 Islamist Taliban guerrillas in firefights in the south on Friday, the U.S. military said, while two policemen died in a roadside bomb blast in the east.
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KABUL - US-led coalition soldiers and Afghan forces killed about 50 militants in two days of major fighting near a Taliban-controlled town, officials said yesterday. Taliban forces fired rocket-propelled grenades and small arms at a combined coalition-Afghan patrol near the town of Musa Qala in Helmand Province, sparking a battle that lasted several hours.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
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Ten Kurdish rebels and two soldiers were killed in a clash in southeast Turkey, a news agency reported Saturday.
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Around 80 Taliban fighters were killed when they tried to ambush a patrol of Afghan and international soldiers in the south of Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said Sunday.
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Afghan forces killed a number of Taliban militants and wounded two others during operations in southern Afghanistan, the Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 40 insurgents in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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Five Western soldiers, including three Americans, were killed in a string of Taliban attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan, officials said on Monday.
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As many as three American soldiers were killed and 14 others injured in a series of fierce engagements with suspected Taliban fighters earlier this week, theUS military confirmed Wednesday.
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A British soldier was killed and another NATO troop wounded in attacks in Afghanistan early while police said they killed 10 Taliban who tried to capture a district headquarters.
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The US-led military coalition in Afghanistan killed more than 20 Taliban militants in a prolonged clash Sunday in troubled Helmand province, a coalition statement said.
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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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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed scores of Taliban insurgents in two separate battles in southern Afghanistan, the U.S military said on Wednesday.
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An American soldier has been killed in fighting in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Tuesday, as the Taliban step up attacks at the start of a spring offensive.
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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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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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At least 10 civilians are killed in a Taleban attack aimed at a US military base in Afghanistan, officials say.