34 Taliban killed in Afghan fighting
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Clashes and bombings killed 34 Taliban fighters and one policeman in Afghanistan, while President Hamid Karzai told the U.N. Wednesday that terrorist sanctuaries elsewhere must be destroyed to eliminate the violence engulfing his country.
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Suspected Taliban rebels ambushed two Afghan army convoys and U.S. forces in the country&#039;s south, sparking gunbattles that killed at least 25 militants, five Afghan soldiers and a U.S. soldier, coalition forces said Saturday.
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The United Nations on Monday said 34 aid workers have been killed in Afghanistan this year and called on Taliban fighters and criminal gangs to stop attacking humanitarian convoys so food can reach millions of needy Afghans before winter.
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Ten people have been killed in fresh fighting in Afghanistan as security forces carried out clean-up operations after some of the heaviest clashes in months left more than 100 people dead, most of them Taliban.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fierce fighting broke out across Afghanistan yesterday with battles in three regions killing more than 100 militants, part of a cycle of rapidly rising violence five years into the US-led effort to defeat the Taliban.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - An air strike by foreign-led forces killed 25 civilians, including 12 members of a family, and 20 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, the provincial police chief said on Friday.
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KABUL, Oct. 28 -- 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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NATO and Afghan forces have killed 94   Taliban insurgents in a battle in southern Afghanistan, the   alliance said on Sunday.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces 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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Clashes and bombings killed 34 Taliban fighters and one policeman in Afghanistan, while President Hamid Karzai told the United Nations yesterday that terrorist sanctuaries elsewhere must be destroyed to eliminate the violence engulfing his country.
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Around 90 people died in a series of weekend clashes between troops and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, including more than 70 rebels killed in a battle in the south and four US soldiers.
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Clashes in Nepal are reported to have killed at least 34 rebels, troops and civilians over the last day. Twenty-two guerrillas and two soldiers were killed in the latest gun battle on Thursday in the western district of Arghakhanchi, the army 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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An estimated 70 to 80 Taliban militants were killed by NATO soldiers in fighting in southern Afghanistan after police told military authorities where insurgents had gathered, an official said Monday.
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Dozens of insurgents killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan, NATO says.
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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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Reports estimated that as many as 200 Taliban fighters were killed in a new offensive in southern Afghanistan.