Dozens of insurgents die in Afghanistan
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Dozens of insurgents killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan, NATO says.
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At least 16 Taliban rebels including a suspected would-be suicide bomber were killed in US-led and Afghan operations across insurgency-plagued Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan security forces   killed 25 insurgents in a clash in the southern province of   Helmand on Wednesday while NATO troops again came under attack   from bombers.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 9 -- NATO and Afghan soldiers killed at least 40 suspected Taliban fighters in fierce raids that destroyed insurgent hideouts and a weapons factory, the European military alliance said Saturday. One NATO soldier also died.
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US forces backed by helicopter gunships killed 22 insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the US military said today. The fighting occurred late Sunday in Shinkay district of Zabul province, a hotbed
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces were attacked by insurgents during a combat patrol in southern Afghanistan and called in airstrikes, killing more than 65 suspected militants, the coalition said.
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A joint U.S. coalition and Afghan operation has left 120 insurgents dead over the past 20 days in central Ghazni province, the Interior Ministry said Monday.
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U.S. and Afghan government forces   attacked an insurgent stronghold in the southern province of   Uruzgan on Monday, killing more than 40 of them, the U.S.   military said.
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An estimated 70 to 80 Taliban militants were killed by NATO soldiers in fighting in southern Afghanistan after police told military authorities where insurgents had gathered, an official said Monday.
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Afghan and NATO-forces killed and wounded more than 50 Taliban insurgents in a large operation in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan Defence Ministry said on Monday.
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More than 100 Afghan insurgents are killed in a major battle in Kandahar province, Nato-led forces say.
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U.S.-led troops killed more than two dozen insurgents in a battle in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, without any civilian casualties, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 40 Taliban 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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U.S. soldiers battled insurgents who ambushed a military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing up to 20 militants, the coalition said Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials said 25 civilians, including three infants and nine women, were killed in NATO airstrikes yesterday in southern Afghanistan. NATO said today that about 20 insurgents were killed in the battle and 60 more died along the border with Pakistan.
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KABUL, June 22 -- An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed dozens of civilians as well as Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan late Thursday, according to Afghan officials.
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International and Afghan forces say they have killed 40 militants in clashes in southern Afghanistan.