Sixteen soldiers die in two days
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq -- A mortar attack in northern Iraq has killed two Americans, raising the total dead in two days of fighting to 16.
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Sixteen dead bodies were found on Thursday in a ditch in a town north of Baghdad within Iraq's most violent province, police said.
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Jazeera said eight soldiers were wounded on Sunday and a ninth was missing in addition to the four dead. Israeli sources said there were.
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At least 10 Nepalese troops are killed in  clashes with rebels who lost 16 of their men, the army says.
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Sixteen American troops died in Iraq in the first three days of June, marking a bloody start to the month as the U.S. military presses on with its crackdown on sectarian violence in Baghdad.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan  - Sixteen Afghan civilians were killed after a "complex" Taliban ambush on a U.S. convoy involving a suicide car-bomb attack and militant gunfire, the U.S. military in Afghanistan said on Sunday.
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NEARLY 50 people have been killed in just two days of violence in Iraq as insurgents ramp up their attacks in the lead-up to next month&#39;s landmark elections.
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Two British soldiers were killed Tuesday and a third was presumed dead in fighting a day after a NATO-led security force took command of southern Afghanistan.
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Shiite militiamen battled Iraqi forces for 12 hours Monday, leaving at least 40 people dead and underlining the government's struggle to rein in an anti-U.S. cleric. The U.S. announced nine soldiers killed over the weekend in separate fighting.
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Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in Iraq in the last three days, the US military says.
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Colombia's leftist Farc rebels kill eight soldiers in their second deadly attack in two days, the army says.
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BAGHDAD, June 23 -- Eight U.S. soldiers died Saturday in Iraq, including seven killed in roadside bombings, the U.S. military said, bringing to 30 the number of U.S. servicemen whose deaths were announced in the past six days.
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Separatist Kurdish rebels killed 16 Turkish soldiers and wounded 17 in an ambush Sunday in the mountainous southeast of the country, security sources said.
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Nine American soldiers were killed in the first two days of a new American drive to kill al-Qaida in Iraq fighters holed up in districts north of the capital, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
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Fourteen American soldiers were killed in three deadly days in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday, including four in a single roadside bombing and one who was struck by a suicide bomber while on a foot patrol southwest of the capital.The blast that killed the four soldiers occurred Sunday as the troops were conducting a cordon and search operation northwest of the Iraqi capital, according to a statement. Two other soldiers from Multi-National Division _ Baghdad were killed and five were wounded along with an Iraqi interpreter in two separate roadside bombings on Sunday, the military said. Read more
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NATO's force in Afghanistan lost its ninth soldier since taking control of the dangerous south of the country six days ago, while 17 Taliban rebels were killed in other violence.
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Sixteen people were killed when a Venezuelan military plane crashed in a mountainous region near Caracas on Friday, a top government official said.