NATO: 200 Taliban killed in offensive
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Warplanes and artillery pounded Taliban fighters hiding in orchards Sunday during a big Afghan-NATO offensive that the alliance said killed more than 200 militants in its first two days. Four Canadian soldiers also were killed.
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NATO and Afghan government troops have   forced Taliban insurgents out of a southern Afghan district   after a two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of   militants were killed.
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NATO forces cornering Taliban guerrillas   killed 50-60 fighters in artillery and air strikes and ground   battles on Tuesday in a major offensive to crush a revitalized   Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.
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NATO aircraft have killed 23 suspected insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said Sunday.
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A NATO soldier was killed by friendly   fire and several more wounded on Monday during a major   offensive to crush a resurgent Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
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More than 100 people, including militants, civilians and police, have been killed in three days of fierce clashes between NATO and the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Monday.
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Three Canadian soldiers serving with NATO   forces have been killed during a major offensive that wiped out   scores of Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan   Defense Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
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Four Canadian soldiers were killed in a major anti-Taliban operation in southern Afghanistan, the defence ministry said, as NATO said the rebel death toll over two days was around 200.
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NATO 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 and Afghan forces killed dozens of   Taliban fighters in a major air and ground offensive in   southern Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, a day after 14   British military personnel were killed when their plane   crashed.
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NATO said on Tuesday its major offensive   to crush a revitalized Taliban in southern Afghanistan is   pushing the guerrillas into a corner as heavy fighting   continues.
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NATO forces inflicted a "tactical defeat" on the resurgent Taliban movement in southern Afghanistan in an offensive that ended last weekend, but a growing illegal narcotics trade that helps fund the insurgency is gaining ground, NATO's top military command said today.
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One NATO soldier was killed by friendly   fire and several were wounded on Monday during a major   offensive to crush a resurgent Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
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A NATO soldier and at least 50 Taliban militants were killed when joint NATO and Afghan soldiers clashed with insurgents in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, the alliance said Sunday.
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A NATO-led airstrike in southern Afghanistan this week killed up to 30 Taliban fighters including two commanders, the governor of the troubled Kandahar province said.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan during battles near a beseiged dam and a remote town that was captured by the militants, officials said.
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More than 100 Afghan insurgents are killed in a major battle in Kandahar province, Nato-led forces say.