More than 60 Taliban are killed in firefight
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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.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 50 suspected Taliban militants in an airstrike on a rebel stronghold in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the force said Monday. Residents claimed dozens of civilians were killed.
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Afghan and NATO-forces killed and wounded more than 50 Taliban insurgents in a large operation in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Monday.
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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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A boat sinks in a river in Afghanistan, killing about 60 people including Taleban fighters.
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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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A boat crossing a river in Afghanistan's most dangerous province sank on Saturday, and at least 60 people were killed, including Taliban militants, the Defense Ministry said.
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NATO troops killed 70-80 Taliban in a fierce battle in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Monday.
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More than 100 people, including militants, civilians and police, have been killed in three days of fierce clashes between NATO and the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Monday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 22 -- Insurgents ambushed a bus carrying construction workers in the country's volatile south Friday, killing 19 of the laborers, and Afghan and NATO forces said they killed 35 Taliban guerrillas in two firefights.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 13 -- More than 60 people died in violence in Pakistan on Thursday, including at least 15 soldiers who were killed by an explosion in a heavily secured dining hall for army commandos.
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Taliban fire may have brought down a military helicopter in which seven NATO soldiers were killed, alliance officials said, while in a separate incident 16 policemen died in a Taliban ambush.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces have killed up to 30 Taliban fighters as they tried to escape on a boat from a battle in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan government spokesman said on Tuesday.
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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.
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New fighting erupted on Monday   between Somali fighters loyal to defeated warlords and the   country's Islamists militias, taking the death toll to at least   60 since Sunday, residents and a hospital official said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO forces killed more than 60 suspected insurgents in the last several days in an increasingly volatile southern Afghan province while suffering no casualties, the military alliance said yesterday .
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More than 100 Afghan insurgents are killed in a major battle in Kandahar province, Nato-led forces say.