19 workers, 35 Taliban reported killed in Afghanistan
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in the country's volatile south yesterday, killing 19 of the laborers, while Afghan and NATO forces said they killed 35 Taliban militants in two separate firefights.
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Two NATO soldiers and more than two dozen Islamist Taliban insurgents have been killed in southern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Eight Afghan border security soldiers and five Taliban fighters have been killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, a senior official said on Sunday.
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Three bombings killed at least 19 people across Afghanistan on Monday, including four Canadian soldiers in an attack that tested NATO's claim of success in driving insurgents from this volatile southern region.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan and NATO-led forces killed 20 Taliban fighters and wounded another nine in an operation west of the main southern city of Kandahar, the provincial police chief said on Monday.
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An unidentified coalition soldier was killed during an assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan as a Spanish soldier and 21 rebels were killed in weekend violence.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - An air strike by foreign-led forces killed 25 civilians, including 12 members of a family, and 20 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, the provincial police chief said on Friday.
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Taliban militants killed around 30 people in an attack in southern Afghanistan, a member of parliament has told AFP.
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Seventeen civilians were killed and about 30 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan, police told AFP on Tuesday.
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Suspected Taliban militants launched a string of attacks on security posts in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing nine soldiers, an official said.
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Twenty-three suspected militant fighters and seven soldiers have died in fighting on the Pakistan border with Afghanistan
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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 troops killed 33 Taliban militants, including several commanders, in three operations in the country's volatile south, officials said Thursday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A gun battle and air strikes killed two dozen Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, while more than 20 suspected militants drowned when Afghan forces sank their boat as they crossed a river trying to elude an attack, officials said yesterday.
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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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Taliban fighters killed 15 Afghan guards working for a U.S. security company who were guarding a convoy of fuel tankers in western Afghanistan, an official 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.