Taliban ambush kills 15 Afghan security guards
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Taliban militants killed 15 Afghan guards working for a private U.S. security firm in an ambush in the west of the country on Tuesday, the provincial governor said.
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Pakistani security forces have killed 16 pro-Taliban militants after they attacked a paramilitary checkpost near the Afghan border, intelligence officials and residents said on Monday.
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Pakistani security forces killed 23 Taliban fighters and lost seven of their own men during clashes on Monday, according to an army officer, while a Taliban spokesman said 17 troopers were captured.
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Taliban militants have killed three policemen and kidnapped three others after they attacked a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.
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Security forces killed dozens of militants along the Afghan border  on Friday
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Suspected Taliban militants launched a  string of attacks on security posts in southern Afghanistan on  Saturday, killing nine soldiers, an official said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a restaurant in southeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding 24 &#151; including an Afghan special forces commander and a district chief who were apparently targeted for the attack.
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Two security guards killed in Afghan capital after confronting bomber targeting luxury hotel
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Police say at least 15 civilians have died in a Nato-led raid in southern Afghanistan - a claim denied by Nato.
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Hundreds of Canadian and Afghan soldiers raided Taliban strongholds throughout southern orchards Sunday, sparking fighting that killed at least 15 militants and one Canadian.
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Taliban insurgents ambushed a police patrol in southern Afghanistan killing eight, a police commander said, while a suicide bombing and another gunfight claimed four more officers in a weekend of violence.
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ASADABAD, Afghanistan  - Three U.S. and two Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush on Monday in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, a provincial police official said.
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NATO-led and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving 10 suspected militants dead, an Afghan army officer said.
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Unidentified gunmen ambushed a van carrying security personnel in southwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing nine people and wounding four, police said.
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GAUHATI -- Fifteen police officers were killed yesterday when suspected rebels ambushed their patrol , officials said. Sixty armed officers in the Bishenpur District were traveling in six vehicles when rebels fired on them. The rebels fled into a forest.
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Suspected militants ambushed a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan, killing two members of the alliance and wounding seven troops, while 15 suspected militants were killed by police, officials said Sunday.
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At least 16 Taliban rebels including a suspected would-be suicide bomber were killed in US-led and Afghan operations across insurgency-plagued Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.