NATO strike kills Taliban commander in Afghan hotspot
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NATO planes have bombed a compound in southern Afghanistan, killing a Taliban commander and at least seven of his men, while locals said the raid also took civilian lives.
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KANDAHAR - Afghan forces in the central province of Uruzgan killed a senior commander from Afghanistanâs Taleban militia previously held at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, a senior official said on Sunday.
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A top NATO alliance general said yesterday that Afghanistan's Taliban militia has lost its ability to control large swaths of territory, even if the hard-line Islamic movement remains strong in "small pockets" of the country.
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Insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan left one NATO-led coalition soldier dead and seven wounded Sunday, while police killed 10 suspected Taliban militants who struck a government compound, officials said.
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A major NATO offensive killed more than   200 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan and four NATO   soldiers died in Sunday's fighting, the organization said.
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The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Forces on Saturday said troops will "kick the Taliban out and defeat them" after Taliban forces took control in the southern Afghan district of Musa Qala overnight, shouldering out a locally raised force of auxiliary police loyal to the Afghan government.
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NATO warplanes killed one of the force's own soldiers and wounded several others in a "friendly fire" incident in southern Afghanistan on Monday, NATO said in a statement.
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NATO forces in Afghanistan said on Thursday Taliban fire may have brought down its military helicopter in which the alliance said seven soldiers were killed. The Taliban said 35 people died.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 9 -- NATO and Afghan soldiers killed at least 40 suspected Taliban fighters in fierce raids that destroyed insurgent hideouts and a weapons factory, the European military alliance said Saturday. One NATO soldier also died.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed dozens of   Taliban fighters in a major air and ground offensive in   southern Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, a day after 14   British military personnel were killed when their plane   crashed.
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NATO and Afghan troops have killed scores   more Taliban guerrillas as part of the alliance's biggest   offensive against the resurgent militants in Afghanistan, the   alliance said on Monday.
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KABUL, June 22 -- An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed dozens of civilians as well as Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan late Thursday, according to Afghan officials.
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The Nato-led force in Afghanistan confirms its soldiers shot two Afghan men on Sunday, killing one of them.
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U.S. airstrikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high-ranking commander involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan officials said Tuesday
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A coalition air strike in southern Afghanistan killed a Taliban commander and 15 other militants, the U.S. military said Saturday. A top American general, meanwhile, said insurgents are still using neighboring Pakistan as a base for infiltration.
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A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said, citing ground commanders.
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Insurgents attacked a NATO patrol in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing a NATO soldier in a southern district that the alliance said had been cleared of Taliban fighters after a two-week offensive last month.