Taliban repel British assault in south Afghanistan
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GARMSER, Afghanistan  - British Marines attacked a Taliban-held valley in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday but withdrew after a ferocious counterattack that withstood air strikes and artillery fire, witnesses said.
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LONDON -- Britain said yesterday it will increase its troop strength in southern Afghanistan to bolster NATO forces battling Taliban militants, days after Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was pulling some British troops out of Iraq.
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Two Taliban fighters were killed in a multinational operation in the south of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed.
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A British-led multinational force launches an offensive against the Taleban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
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NATO battled Taliban holdouts in the   deserts of southern Afghanistan on Saturday amid a security   crackdown in the capital after at least 16 people were killed   by a suicide bomber.
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Three British soldiers were killed by a  bomb dropped by U.S. aircraft supporting them in a battle  against Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the British  military said on Friday.
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NATO forces cornering Taliban guerrillas   killed up to 60 fighters in artillery and air strikes and   ground battles on Tuesday in a major offensive to crush a   revitalised Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.
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British forces claimed success on Monday in what they described as NATO's biggest operation yet in the southern part of the restive Afghan province of Helmand.
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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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A battle and airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left 30 suspected Taliban dead or wounded, the Ministry of Defense said Thursday.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan during battles near a beseiged dam and a remote town that was captured by the militants, officials said.
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Taliban militants remain in control of a southern Afghan town nearly a week after capturing it, but NATO expects the Afghan government to soon reassert its authority there, an alliance spokesman said Wednesday.
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NATO-led troops launched an offensive against Taliban militants Tuesday in a volatile southern Afghan province where hundreds of militant fighters have amassed.
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ARGHINDAB RIVER VALLEY, Afghanistan  - British-led armored columns of NATO troops swept into southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Friday, launching one of the biggest operations in months.
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In the thick of battle Taliban pushed women and children into the firing line; the soldiers had no choice but to cease fire, a corporal recalled of British troops&#039; biggest clash in Afghanistan.
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SPIN BOLADAK, Afghanistan  - NATO forces battled   Taliban holdouts in the deserts of southern Afghanistan on   Saturday amid a security crackdown in the capital after at   least 16 people were killed by a suicide bomber.
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Coalition and Afghan forces have pounded a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, with about five rebels killed and one soldier wounded, the coalition said.