U.S. troops kill 20 Afghanistan militants
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U.S. soldiers battled insurgents who ambushed a military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing up to 20 militants, the coalition said Monday.
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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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BAGHDAD, Dec. 8 -- U.S.-led coalition forces killed 20 suspected insurgents during a raid targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters northwest of Baghdad on Friday morning, the U.S. military said. Two women were among the suspects killed, the military said.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed some 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle following an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - After a suicide bomber attacked their military convoy in Afghanistan on Sunday, U.S. troops opened fire and killed eight civilians and wounded more than 30, Afghan police said.
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The U.S. military said Monday it was  ready to help the Afghan government quell factional infighting  in western Afghanistan, where 21 people died in clashes at the  weekend.
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U.S. and Afghan troops killed or wounded more than two dozen Taliban fighters during a 21-hour battle in eastern Afghanistan that ended Saturday, military officials said.
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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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KABUL -- US troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters in southern Afghanistan, the military said yesterday, in the latest bloodshed ahead of historic Afghan elections.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 50 suspected Taliban militants in an airstrike on a rebel stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the force said Monday. Residents claimed dozens of civilians were killed.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 82 militants in battles across southern Afghanistan, the military said Saturday.
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US and Afghan troops killed more than a dozen militants who were attacking from positions in eastern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan, the US-led coalition said in a statement Sunday.
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CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkish troops killed 20 Kurdish guerrillas on Sunday in a major operation against separatist rebels in eastern Turkey, army sources said.
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US forces kill 22 suspected Taleban militants in southern Afghanistan, the American military says.
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U.S. and Afghan government forces killed   more than 40 suspected Taliban in a ground and air assault on a   militant stronghold in the south of the country on Monday, the   U.S. military said.
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U.S.-led troops killed more than four dozen insurgents in a battle in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, without any civilian casualties, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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U.S. forces killed at least 23 insurgents suspected of having links with al Qaeda during a fierce battle in Iraq's western Anbar province over the weekend, the military said on Tuesday.