Scores die in Afghan fighting
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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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Afghan troops kill rebels in the first fighting near Musa Qala since its capture from the Taleban, say officials.
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A battle between police and Taliban left 20 suspected militants and two policemen dead in northwestern Afghanistan, while airstrikes and clashes left another 27 militants dead in the south, officials said Sunday.
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Dozens of militants were killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan overnight in clashes with U.S.-led foreign troops and Afghan forces, officials said on Saturday.
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Five foreign troops were killed in fighting in Afghanistan, taking the death toll for international forces past 150 for the year as the Taliban insurgency intensifies, officials said Monday.
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Dozens of militants were killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan overnight in clashes with U.S.-led foreign troops and Afghan forces, officials said on Saturday
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 40 insurgents in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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Two US and one Afghan soldier die in fight with "enemy extremists" in Afghanistan, officials say.
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More than 65 people, most of them Taliban, were killed in new violence in Afghanistan as the US-led coalition defended itself against criticism of civilian deaths in a major air strike.
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More than 100 suspected insurgents were killed in a battle with U.S.-led troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
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Nine policemen, two Dutch troops and several Taleban are reported killed in separate clashes in Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's surging violence left three Canadian soldiers and 21 suspected Taliban militants dead yesterday, while insurgents grabbed control of another district headquarters in the south.
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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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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 60 Taliban in battles in restive southern Afghanistan, taking the guerrilla death toll to more than 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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About 80 Taleban are killed in a battle with US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, officials say.
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More than 100 Afghan insurgents are killed in a major battle in Kandahar province, Nato-led forces say.