U.S. military says 16 Afghans killed after attack
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The U.S. military in Afghanistan said on Sunday 16 Afghan civilians were killed after a "complex" Taliban ambush on a U.S. convoy involving a suicide car-bomb attack and militant gunfire.
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Afghan children and U.S. soldiers were  among six people reported killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, a  week after millions voted in a landmark election they hope will  bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.
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The US-led military coalition in Afghanistan killed more than 20 Taliban militants in a prolonged clash Sunday in troubled Helmand province, a coalition statement said.
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KUNAR, Afghanistan  - A U.S. bombing raid killed  at least six civilians and wounded nine in the eastern Afghan  province of Kunar early on Tuesday after assailants attacked  government positions, an Afghan official said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A U.S.-led air strike killed 12 members of an Afghan family and 20 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, the provincial police chief said on Friday.
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MEDEA, Algeria: Suspected Algerian Islamic militants killed 16 people in the first attack on civilians since the start of Ramadan, officials said yesterday.
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A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home after a rocket attack on a U.S. base, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family including a 6-month-old, officials and relatives said Monday &#151; one of the latest in a string of civilian deaths that threaten to undermine the government.
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At least 16 people, many of them children, were killed in explosions at the office of a US security contractor in Afghanistanâs capital and a school in the south east as the country moves towards its first post-Taliban election.
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KHOST, Afghanistan  - U.S.-led troops killed at least four people, including a teenage girl, in an operation in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost on Tuesday, the force and villagers said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - A bomb killed two American soldiers and wounded three others in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Saturday, and an attack in an eastern province killed three children and two others on the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan...
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Six U.S. soldiers were killed on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in months on American forces in Iraq and three more died in a separate incident, the U.S. military said in a statement on Tuesday.
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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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At least 16 Afghan policemen die when their checkpoint in the southern province of Kandahar is attacked.
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At least three American soldiers were   killed in the Afghanistan capital Kabul in a suspected suicide   attack near the U.S. embassy, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera   television said on Friday.
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At least 16 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in an attack by militants near the Afghan border, officials say.
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As of Friday, Jan. 4, 2008, at least 406 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Dec. 29, 2007, at 10 a.m. EST.
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The U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan government are investigating reports that as many as 130 people, including women and children, were killed Friday in an attack by coalition forces in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.