'Forty killed' in Afghan clashes
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International and Afghan forces say they have killed 40 militants in clashes in southern Afghanistan.
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Several Taliban fighters were killed in a firefight with Afghan security forces in the southeast province of Khost near the border with Pakistan, the US military said on Friday.
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Nine policemen, two Dutch troops and several Taleban are reported killed in separate clashes in Afghanistan.
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Four people are reported to have been killed in clashes in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 18 -- Dozens of people have died in intense fighting in recent days as NATO-led forces have opened a new front in Afghanistan's volatile south, Afghan and international security officials said Monday.
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KABUL/Kandahar, Oct. 9. - Gun battles, mine blasts and US air strikes on the day of Afghanistanâs first post-Taliban election left 38 people dead today, Afghan officials said, including three police officers escorting freshly filled ballot boxes.
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Two people were killed in clashes on Saturday between US and Afghan forces and stone-throwing protesters angered by President Hamid Karzai effectively axing a regional governor, hospital officials and witnesses said.
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Coalition forces killed about 40 militants in an operation in eastern Afghanistan this week, a coalition spokesman said Friday.
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Nato says two of its soldiers have been killed in separate clashes with militants in southern Afghanistan.
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Pakistani forces captured 40  militants in the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border,  a military spokesman said on Saturday, a day after up to 90  rebels were killed in two battles.
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Two speeding tour buses collided head-on on a southern Afghan highway Monday evening, killing about 40 people on board, a highway police commander said.
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At least one demonstrator was killed and two others injured in violent clashes between demonstrators and local police and American soldiers in the western Afghan city of Herat
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About 80 Taliban fighters were believed killed in a clash with NATO-led troops and Afghan security forces in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan at the weekend, a NATO spokesman has said.
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A wave of fighting in Afghanistan's south and west killed 16 police and dozens of suspected militants, Afghan officials said Thursday.
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Two people were killed in clashes on  Saturday between U.S. and Afghan forces and stone-throwing  protesters angered by President Hamid Karzai effectively axing  a regional governor, hospital officials and witnesses said.
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In three days of fresh clashes, 40 followers of the rebel cleric die.
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KABUL : Twenty-two suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants, including three Arabs, were killed in a fierce gun-battle with US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, the US military said.