Nine reported dead in battle with militants
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WANA -- Pakistani security forces and militants clashed yesterday in fighting that killed at least nine people in the mountains near the Afghan border where Al Qaeda-linked fighters are believed to be hiding, military officials said. Between six and eight militants were killed during the fighting in Kani Guram, a mountainous area about 30 miles northeast of Wana, the main ...
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Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday  in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical  Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style  movement, officials said.
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Shiite militiamen battled Iraqi forces for 12 hours Monday, leaving at least 40 people dead and underlining the government's struggle to rein in an anti-U.S. cleric. The U.S. announced nine soldiers killed over the weekend in separate fighting.
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Up to 30 Islamic militants were killed and nine Pakistani troops wounded after insurgents attacked a checkpost in a troubled tribal region bordering Afghanistan, the army said Thursday.
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A pair of militant attacks killed nine police officers in southern Afghanistan Sunday and the Netherlands announced that two of its soldiers had been killed in fighting in the south.
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A Nigerian militant group says it has killed nine government soldiers in a gun battle in the Niger Delta.
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Nine people were shot dead on Tuesday in clashes between Pakistani paramilitary forces and radical Muslim students at an Islamabad mosque run by a Taliban-style movement, officials said.
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At least 10 people are killed in clashes between insurgents and government forces in a suburb of the Somali capital.
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At least five militants have been killed and four suspects arrested in clashes in Kuwait, reports say.
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At least seven Pakistani troops and 23 Islamic militants were killed in a major battle Monday near the Afghan border, days after Islamabad ruled out direct US military intervention.
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More than 100 suspected insurgents were killed in a battle with U.S.-led troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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The Israeli army has killed nine militants in and around the Gaza Strip, raising the Palestinian death toll to 47 in one of the biggest and bloodiest offensives in four years of conflict.
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At least nine Palestinians, most of them militants, are killed in Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip.
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Nine American soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new offensive to root out al-Qaida in Iraq fighters holed up in districts north of the capital, the U.S. military reported Wednesday.
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An ongoing battle between Pakistani forces and suspected al Qaeda fighters Sunday in a tribal area near the border with Afghanistan has left six suspected terrorists and 12 Pakistani forces dead, two government officials told
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British and Afghan forces battled Taliban holdouts Thursday after repelling a brazen insurgent attack on a police headquarters a day earlier in a southern town, killing at least 19 militants, a local official said.
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Afghan and NATO-led forces killed or wounded more than two dozen insurgents in a 21-hour battle in the northeast of the country close to the border with Pakistan, the alliance said on Saturday.