Sixty Taliban drown fleeing troops
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About 60 fleeing Taliban fighters were confirmed dead after their boat sank in southern Afghanistan, the defence ministry said Sunday as the NATO force announced another of its soldiers had died in action.
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U.S. troops rounded up 60 suspected   militants overnight in a security clampdown to stem violence in   the capital and killed 26 insurgents in a rebel Sunni   stronghold west of Baghdad.
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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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Six Philippine marines and 8 Muslim   rebels were killed and dozens more were wounded in the heaviest   day of fighting in the latest campaign to flush out Islamic   extremists from a remote southwestern island.
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KABUL -- Hundreds of villagers fled a southern Afghan town yesterday overrun by Taliban militants, fearful of a NATO attack on the insurgent fighters , residents said. General David Richards, NATO's outgoing commander, said "very surgical and deliberate" force would be used to evict the fighters from Musa Qala, where he said the alliance's strategy of avoiding military action has ...
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Beijing: At least 64 people were confirmed dead and 70 missing in floods and landslides in southwest China&#39;s Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality following heavy rainfall, the state media reported on Monday.
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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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More than 80 dead, many wounded in nation's deadliest attack since fall of Taliban in 2001.
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MINIEH, Lebanon, Aug. 24 -- Sixty-three women and children were evacuated from the battle-wrecked Nahr al-Bared refugee camp on Friday, following more than three months of fighting there between the Lebanese army and members of the al-Qaeda-inspired group Fatah al-Islam, the Lebanese army said.
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NATO forces cornering Taliban guerrillas   killed 50-60 fighters in artillery and air strikes and ground   battles on Tuesday in a major offensive to crush a revitalized   Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.
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Pro-Taliban militants battling Pakistani troops in a northwestern tourist region agreed to a ceasefire Monday after three days of fighting that left up to 60 rebels dead, officials said.
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NATO and Afghan government troops have   forced Taliban insurgents out of a southern Afghan district   after a two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of   militants were killed.
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Pakistani troops killed between 50-60 Islamist militants during fierce fighting in the restive northwestern Swat valley on Sunday, the Army said on Monday.
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Dozens of insurgents killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan, NATO says.
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Sixty Germans are now confirmed killed in the Asian tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka and Thailand and many more than 1,000 are missing, the government said on Sunday.
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Afghan army-led operations supported by NATO troops killed 157 Taliban militants in the past 10 days, with six Afghan soldiers also dead, the defence ministry said Sunday.
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Taliban fighters killed 15 Afghan guards working for a U.S. security company who were guarding a convoy of fuel tankers in western Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday. Six Taliban were killed in the ensuing fight.