NATO launches offensive against Taliban
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NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants Tuesday in a volatile southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have amassed.
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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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ZHARI -- NATO forces said yesterday they had recaptured territory in southern Afghanistan from Taliban insurgents during an 11-day operation that has killed at least 510 suspected militants. Security forces also killed a dozen Taliban yesterday and detained nearly 40 in raids aimed at quelling an insurgency so relentless that it has prompted NATO commanders to call for more troops, ...
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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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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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More than 165 Taliban fighters have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, following fierce fighting between militants and coalition forces, Nato said.
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The Taliban has launched a new operation targeting government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, a spokesman said Sunday, as two policemen died in an ambush in the volatile south.
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NATO and Afghan forces using airstrikes, artillery and mortars killed at least 30 Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the alliance said.
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NATO and Afghan forces have killed 92 Taliban rebels in air and artillery strikes in southern Afghanistan, the latest deaths in a major anti-insurgent offensive, the alliance said.
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NATO-led troops launched a precision strike Sunday, killing a key Taliban commander near a southern Afghan town overrun by militants, a spokesman for the alliance said.
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Thousands of Afghan and foreign security forces kicked off a major new offensive against the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan as a NATO-led operation wound down in the south.
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NATO launched its biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the 2001 war on Tuesday, targetting the Taliban and drug lords as hundreds of people rallied in the east against U.S. soldiers killing civilians.
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NATO leaders will declare their determination on Wednesday to prevail over Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan while offering only small increases in troop levels and flexibility.
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NATO forces cornering Taliban guerrillas   killed up to 60 fighters in artillery and air strikes and   ground battles on Tuesday in a major offensive to crush a   revitalised Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.
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SPIN BOLADAK, Afghanistan  - NATO forces battled   Taliban holdouts in the deserts of southern Afghanistan on   Saturday amid a security crackdown in the capital after at   least 16 people were killed by a suicide bomber.
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NATO said Sunday that its two-week offensive in south Afghanistan was a "significant success" that had driven Taliban insurgents from their positions and opened the way for development. But violence was unabated, with suicide bombers killing two civilians and wounding six soldiers.
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11 December 2004 -- The US military has begun a new operation in Afghanistan to hunt down Taliban militants in their winter hideouts.