General: U.S. airstrikes killed Taliban
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The regional U.S. air commander stands by initial reports that American airstrikes killed scores of Taliban in two western Afghan villages in recent weeks &#151; not 72 or more civilians, as Afghan officials and other witnesses say.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 18 -- U.S.-led coalition forces killed seven children and several insurgents during a Sunday airstrike against a suspected al-Qaeda compound, the coalition said in a statement today.
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A U.S. airstrike killed eight suspected terrorists and destroyed a building south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Friday.
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A helicopter from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan went down late Wednesday, causing casualties, the force said as the Taliban claimed to have shot down a chopper.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan mistakenly killed seven policemen in an air strike after Afghan forces came under attack from the Taliban and asked for help, a provincial official said on Tuesday.
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Several Taliban fighters were killed on Monday in an attack targeting a senior guerrilla leader closely linked to the Islamist movement's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A U.S.-led air strike killed 12 members of an Afghan family and 20 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, the provincial police chief said on Friday.
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U.S. warplanes hunting Taliban fighters bombed a religious school and mud-brick homes in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing dozens of suspected militants and 17 civilians in one of the deadliest strikes since the American-led invasion in 2001.
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U.S. artillery and airstrikes killed between 50 and 60 suspected Taliban militants Tuesday, the fourth day of a NATO-led offensive in southern Afghanistan, an alliance spokesman said.
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A NATO air strike has killed a Taliban commander behind an insurgent takeover of a small southern Afghanistan town, as a US general took command of the 35,000-strong NATO-led force.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition soldiers battled Taliban militants in Afghanistan and called in airstrikes, killing more than 20 insurgents, officials said Wednesday.
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The military said it killed several insurgents who used heavy artillery machine guns to fire at U.S. helicopters.
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U.S. airstrikes destroyed two foreign fighter safe houses west of Baghdad on Saturday night, killing five insurgents, two women and a child, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Residents of a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan said on Sunday dozens of civilians including women and children had been killed in aerial bombing.
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The Taliban said on Sunday it had shot down a U.S. civilian helicopter chartered by NATO that crashed in bad weather in southern Afghanistan.
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As many as three American soldiers were killed and 14 others injured in a series of fierce engagements with suspected Taliban fighters earlier this week, theUS military confirmed Wednesday.
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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.