Afghans say hundreds of Taliban killed in Musa Qala
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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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More than 100 Afghan insurgents are killed in a major battle in Kandahar province, Nato-led forces say.
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More than 165 Taliban fighters have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, following fierce fighting between militants and coalition forces, Nato said.
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NATO and Afghan troops killed 94 Taliban rebels in a major insurgent stronghold in southern Afghanistan while a respected provincial governor died in a suicide blast, officials said.
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Afghan children and US soldiers were among six people reported killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, a week after millions voted in a landmark election they hope will bring peace back to their war-ravaged nation.
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Reports from the field estimated that as many as 200 Taliban fighters were killed during a new offensive in southern Afghanistan.
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NATO and Afghan government forces have  forced Taliban troops out of a southern Afghan district after a  two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of militants  were killed.
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Taliban militants killed around 30 people in an attack in southern Afghanistan, a member of parliament has told AFP.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Days after Taliban fighters overran Musa Qala, a US commander pledged that Western troops would take it back. Nine months later, the town is still Taliban territory, a symbol of the West's struggles to control the poppy-growing south.
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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 Defence Ministry said on Monday.
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A battle and airstrikes in southern Afghanistan left 30 suspected Taliban dead or wounded, the Ministry of Defense said Thursday.
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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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KABUL - Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed more than 60 Taliban in battles in restive southern Afghanistan, taking the guerrilla death toll to more than 200 in two weeks, the US military said yesterday.
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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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More than 40 insurgents were killed Saturday as hundreds of coalition troops, many dropped by helicopter, wrested a desert town from the Taliban and U.S. forces battled militants across southern Afghanistan, officials said.
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U.S.-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday in ground clashes and airstrikes that left over 100 militants dead, the coalition said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan Afghan officials say an alleged senior Taliban commander and two fighters have been killed in a raid on a village home in southern Afghanistan.