Attack, coalition return fire kill sixteen Afghans
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Sixteen civilians were killed in eastern Afghanistan Sunday when a US convoy was ambushed and troops returned fire, the US-led coalition said, as the government said the soldiers killed 10 people.
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The US military in Afghanistan says US-led coalition forces have killed at least 22 insurgents, including several Arabs, during a clash in southern Zabul province.
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NATO and Afghan troops called in airstrikes during a battle against insurgents that left 20 suspected militants but also several civilians dead, officials said Tuesday.
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Coalition forces killed 40 militants during combat operations linked to a large-scale anti-Taliban blitz launched across southern Afghanistan, the military said Friday.
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Airstrikes and Afghan army gunfire killed more than 45 suspected Taliban fighters in a clash in a southern province just as the holy month of Ramadan began, the U.S.-led coalition said.
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A U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed some 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle after an ambush in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.
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A major NATO offensive killed more than   200 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan and four NATO   soldiers died in Sunday's fighting, the organization said.
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Suspected insurgents ambushed a U.S.-led coalition and Afghan patrol in the volatile south, sparking a battle and airstrikes that killed 25 suspected insurgents
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U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed more than 45 Islamist Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
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Suspected Algerian Islamic militants killed 16 people in the first attack on civilians since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, officials 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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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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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops, using artillery and airstrikes, killed 33 Taliban fighters after the insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
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Fierce fighting and roadside bomb blasts in Afghanistan killed six Afghan soldiers and more than 20 Taliban rebels, officials said Tuesday, as the Islamist insurgency raged unabated.
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One French and 16 Afghan soldiers were killed and about 40 other troops were wounded in two firefights in southern Afghanistan, coalition and Afghan officials said Sunday.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed about 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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A coalition air strike in southern Afghanistan killed a Taliban commander and 15 other militants, the U.S. military said Saturday. A top American general, meanwhile, said insurgents are still using neighboring Pakistan as a base for infiltration.