Dozens killed by snow, cold in Afghanistan
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Dozens of people have been killed by heavy snow and freezing weather in recent days in Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Residents of a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan said on Sunday dozens of civilians including women and children had been killed in aerial bombing.
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A foreign military air strike in southern Afghanistan killed 30 civilians, including women and children, a district mayor said Saturday, citing initial investigations.
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At least 20 people are killed and 10 reported missing after heavy snows in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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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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Some 300 Afghans have died in the past 10 days from bitter cold and heavy snow across the country, the Health Ministry said Monday.
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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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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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Security forces killed dozens of militants along the Afghan border  on Friday
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Security forces killed dozens of militants along the Afghan border on Friday, the army said, as violence escalated sharply along the frontier following Taliban assaults on two military outposts this week.
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KABUL, June 22 -- An airstrike by NATO-led forces killed dozens of civilians as well as Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan late Thursday, according to Afghan officials.
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials said 25 civilians, including three infants and nine women, were killed in NATO airstrikes yesterday in southern Afghanistan. NATO said today that about 20 insurgents were killed in the battle and 60 more died along the border with Pakistan.
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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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NATO troops scouring the wreckage of an Afghan airliner atop a snowy mountain peak on Monday found human remains amid the debris but no sign that any of the 104 people on board survived the crash, a spokesman said.
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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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Three Indian soldiers and three road workers were killed by two avalanches in Kashmir as heavy snow closed the Himalayan region's main highway, the army said.