Coalition, Afghan troops kill 82 militants
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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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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops killed 10 Islamist Taliban guerrillas in firefights in the south on Friday, the U.S. military said, while two policemen died in a roadside bomb blast in the east.
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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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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.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed some 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle after an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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The U.S.-led coalition on Friday said 25 Taliban were killed in a joint operation with Afghan forces in the country's south, while a rare gunbattle near the capital killed one militant.
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U.S. troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters in southern Afghanistan, the military said Monday, the latest bloodshed ahead of historic Afghan elections.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan soldiers "routed" a large number of Taliban fighters in a two-day battle in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing heartland, killing more than 50 suspected militants, the coalition said Monday.
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The U.S. military said on Monday coalition forces had killed 15 suspected militants during an operation to tackle al Qaeda in central Iraq.
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Three U.S.-led coalition soldiers were killed during a combat operation Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, a coalition spokesman said.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan security forces aided by airstrikes killed about 25 suspected militants during raids on a Taliban command center in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said Sunday.
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About 80 Taleban are killed in a battle with US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, coalition officials say.
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Taliban militants killed five people in an ambush Sunday while U.S.-led coalition troops moved deeper into Afghanistan&#039;s southern mountains in an offensive that has killed about 90 insurgents in less than a week, officials said.
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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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Fighting between NATO troops and Taliban fighters killed eight soldiers &#151; including six Westerners &#151; in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks are running at their highest level since the U.S. invasion, officials said Monday.
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Troops killed 21 militants in the latest battles in a major offensive launched a week ago in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said here.
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Eight US soldiers involved in efforts to defeat extremist Taliban militants in Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash as authorities reported the killings of seven Afghans in new unrest.