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Eighteen Taliban militants and one policeman were killed as Afghan forces and coalition aircraft raided an insurgent hide-out in the country's south, police said Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants ambushed US-led coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, sparking a 10-hour battle and airstrikes that killed an estimated two dozen militants, the coalition said yesterday. Villagers said seven civilians were among the dead.
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About 80 Taliban fighters were believed killed in a clash with NATO-led troops and Afghan security forces in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan at the weekend, a NATO spokesman has said.
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Fighting in Afghanistan's south left 12 suspected Taliban and eight police dead, while a roadside bomb Thursday killed an Afghan civilian in an eastern province, officials said.
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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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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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Dozens of militants were killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan overnight in clashes with U.S.-led foreign troops and Afghan forces, officials said on Saturday.
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KABUL: Seven people including two US soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan in the past two days. In the first incident, two US soldiers were killed and three were wounded by a roadside
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NATO and Afghan troops called in airstrikes during a battle against insurgents that left 20 suspected militants but also several civilians dead, officials said Tuesday.
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Two US soldiers have been killed in a gun battle in southeastern Afghanistan, the US military has said. Six Afghan and two other American troops were slightly wounded in the exchange, in the province of Paktika.
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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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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in separate clashes in a southern Afghan province where hundreds of militants have gathered, a police official said Tuesday.
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Battles between soldiers and Taliban have raged across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours with more than two dozen rebels killed and a teenage boy dying in the crossfire, the US-led coalition said Friday.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan during battles near a beseiged dam and a remote town that was captured by the militants, officials said.
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Two NATO soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a battle with the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan that also left up to 21 militants dead, the military force and local officials said Friday.
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More than 20 insurgents die in a major drive against the Taleban in south Afghanistan, Nato-led forces say.
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Witnesses said Sunday that clashes between coalition troops and Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan left at least 18 civilians dead. NATO officials, however, said no noncombatants were killed.