British-led forces launch major Afghan operation
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - British-led forces launched a major operation in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, aiming to clear Taliban insurgents from a valley in Helmand -- the most violent province in the country.
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A major air and ground offensive by NATO   and Afghan forces has inflicted heavy losses on the Taliban in   southern Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, a day after 14   British military personnel were killed when their plane   crashed.
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British forces claimed success on Monday  in what they described as NATO's biggest operation yet in the  southern part of the restive Afghan province of Helmand.
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ARGHINDAB RIVER VALLEY, Afghanistan  - British-led armored columns of NATO troops swept into southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Friday, launching one of the biggest operations in months.
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Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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KABUL, Dec 11: The US-led military in Afghanistan has kicked off a new operation to hunt Taliban militants in their winter stronghold and force them to accept an Afghan government reconciliation offer, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.
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More than 1,000 extra British troops are to be sent to  Afghanistan by the government, the BBC learns.
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Britain is to send an additional 800 troops to southern Afghanistan, where they are bracing for a spring offensive by Taliban insurgents, Defence Secretary Des Browne has said.
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British forces carry out an operation against the Taleban in Garmsir, southern Afghanistan.
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Troops from the Black Watch regiment have begun a major operation in central Iraq.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 6 -- NATO and Afghan forces on Tuesday launched what commanders described as a major operation in a key province of southern Afghanistan, part of a bid to win back territory that has become a haven for insurgents.
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Around 7,000 soldiers with the Afghan and US-led coalition forces launched a major new anti-Taliban offensive in eastern and central Afghanistan.
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Britain will deploy nearly 1,400 extra troops to southern Afghanistan, where NATO forces are bracing for a Taliban spring offensive, Defence Secretary Des Browne said Monday.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett Thursday visited the southern Afghan province of Helmand where thousands of British troops are deployed to fight the Taliban, a statement said.
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About 2,500 troops launched a new operation against Islamic rebels in one of Afghanistan&#39;s most volatile areas Wednesday as 25 people were reported killed in fresh Taliban-linked violence.
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In its largest offensive yet, thousands of NATO troops moved Tuesday into the mountains of southern Afghanistan where hundreds of hardcore Taliban insurgents hold sway &#151; an operation in the world's biggest opium-producing region aimed at winning over a population long supportive of militant fighters.
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Britain plans to send 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan, bolstering the 5,000 it already has there, British lawmakers said Friday.