Coalition Reports Heavy Toll For Taliban
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KABUL, Sept. 26 -- U.S.-led forces used artillery and airstrikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel large assaults on coalition troops in two Taliban strongholds, officials said Wednesday.
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Afghan and NATO-led troops killed, wounded and detained hundreds of insurgents during fighting in the Taliban's biggest stronghold, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday.
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U.S.-led coalition and NATO forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan have killed at least 236 civilians so far this year &#151; surpassing the 178 civilians killed in militant attacks, according to an Associated Press tally.
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Taliban militants ambushed U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces escorting supply trucks in southern Afghanistan, sparking a 10-hour battle the coalition said killed an estimated two dozen militants, though villagers said Monday seven civilians also died.
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Sixteen Afghan civilians were killed and 25 others wounded in the aftermath of a suicide attack and ambush on a coalition military convoy in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, a joint forces military statement said.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 17 -- Since winter, the Taliban had been promising a spring offensive. It didn't come. Instead, NATO and U.S. forces have pounded the group's positions and killed its senior leadership.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
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A major air and ground offensive by NATO   and Afghan forces has inflicted heavy losses on the Taliban in   southern Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, a day after 14   British military personnel were killed when their plane   crashed.
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More than 65 people, most of them Taliban, were killed in new violence in Afghanistan as the US-led coalition defended itself against criticism of civilian deaths in a major air strike.
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More than 20 insurgents die in a major drive against the Taleban in south Afghanistan, Nato-led forces say.
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U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left at least 30 people, including women and children, killed or wounded, an official said Saturday.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 40 insurgents in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed nearly a dozen Islamist Taliban fighters in the southern province of Zabul overnight, the U.S. military said, confirming the period as the bloodiest since militants were ousted in 2001.
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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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Attacks by the Taliban in Afghanistan surged last year, according to previously unpublished figures from allied military forces fighting insurgents
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 40 insurgents in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led coalition forces fought with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing belt yesterday, engaging in a daylong battle that left more than 60 Taliban fighters and one coalition soldier dead, military officials said.