Afghan Militants Fire at U.S. Troops
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Rebel fighters attacked U.S. troops and fired rockets at American helicopters in a skirmish in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.
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Taliban militants killed five people in an ambush Sunday while U.S.-led coalition troops moved deeper into Afghanistan&#039;s southern mountains in an offensive that has killed about 90 insurgents in less than a week, officials said.
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U.S.-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday in ground clashes and airstrikes that left over 100 militants dead, the coalition said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.    In the latest bloodshed, Afghan police said suspected Taliban gunmen killed nine militia soldiers in two attacks on checkpoints in a troubled southern province...
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Troops killed 21 militants in the latest battles in a major offensive launched a week ago in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said here.
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U.S.-led troops mounted overnight raids on suspected al-Qaida compounds in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people and detaining several others, officials said Sunday.
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - A missile attack, possibly launched by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, killed at least 32 pro-Taliban militants on Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region near the border, Pakistani officials said.
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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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U.S.-led troops killed more than four 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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United States helicopter gunships, backed by hundreds of Afghan and US-led troops have attacked Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan&#39;s mountainous southeastern province of Khost near the Pakistan border.
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KABUL, Dec 11: The US-led military in Afghanistan has kicked off a new operation to hunt Taliban militants in their winter stronghold and force them to accept an Afghan government reconciliation offer, a US military spokesman said on Saturday.
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Taliban-led militants step up their attacks; 100 fighters raid a government compound
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 12 -- U.S.-led forces killed seven Afghan police officers and injured four others during a firefight that broke out after each side mistook the other for a group of insurgents, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition soldiers battled Taliban militants in Afghanistan and called in airstrikes, killing more than 20 insurgents, officials said Wednesday.
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US troops and helicopter gunships tracked and killed five suspected Taliban rebels early Monday, hours after militants wounded four Afghan army soldiers in an attack in
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 82 militants in battles across southern Afghanistan, the military said Saturday.
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The terror group posted a video on the internet showing what they claim is an insurgent attack on U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan