Afghan, foreign troops kill dozens of Taliban
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Afghan troops and soldiers from the U.S.-led force in Afghanistan killed more than three dozen Taliban insurgents in the south of the country, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement on Tuesday.
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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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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Eight Afghan civilians were killed on Sunday when foreign troops opened fire after a suicide car-bomber attacked their convoy in the east of the country, a provincial police spokesman said.
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Afghan troops killed 33 Taliban militants, including several commanders, in three operations in the country's volatile south, officials said Thursday.
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KABUL - US-led coalition soldiers and Afghan forces killed about 50 militants in two days of major fighting near a Taliban-controlled town, officials said yesterday. Taliban forces fired rocket-propelled grenades and small arms at a combined coalition-Afghan patrol near the town of Musa Qala in Helmand Province, sparking a battle that lasted several hours.
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Dozens of Taliban insurgents have been   killed in the latest clashes in the Afghan south where foreign   and government forces have been engaged in fierce combat in   recent weeks.
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Afghan and US-led troops killed more than 60 Taliban rebels in two days of fierce fighting, while two NATO soldiers died in separate clashes, officials said Monday.
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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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Dozens killed as troops encircle mountain base of Taliban chief linked to Bhutto killing
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Five foreign troops were killed in fighting in Afghanistan, taking the death toll for international forces past 150 for the year as the Taliban insurgency intensifies, officials said Monday.
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More than 30 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an airstrike by foreign forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a regional official said.
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U.S. and Afghan government forces killed   more than 40 suspected Taliban in a ground and air assault on a   militant stronghold in the south of the country on Monday, the   U.S. military said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 9 -- NATO and Afghan soldiers killed at least 40 suspected Taliban fighters in fierce raids that destroyed insurgent hideouts and a weapons factory, the European military alliance said Saturday. One NATO soldier also died.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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International troops kill 70 Taleban during a four-hour battle in southern Afghanistan, Nato says.
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Afghanistan's Taliban claimed responsibility on Thursday for shooting down a NATO heavy-lift helicopter and said that 35 soldiers were killed, many more than the seven dead announced by the Western military alliance.
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NATO-led forces have killed up to 60 Taliban rebels in clashes in southern Afghanistan, an official said, amid a visit to the war-torn country by the alliance's leadership.