Dozens of Taliban said killed in Afghan battles
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Battles between soldiers and Taliban have raged across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours with more than two dozen rebels killed and a teenage boy dying in the crossfire, the US-led coalition said Friday.
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Up to 380 Afghan civilians have been killed in fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan and international forces this year, the United Nations said Monday.
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A major NATO offensive killed more than   200 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan and four NATO   soldiers died in Sunday's fighting, the organization said.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed dozens of   Taliban fighters in a major air and ground offensive in   southern Afghanistan, NATO said on Sunday, a day after 14   British military personnel were killed when their plane   crashed.
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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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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 - 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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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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Around 80 Taliban fighters were killed when they tried to ambush a patrol of Afghan and international soldiers in the south of Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said Sunday.
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More than 30 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an air strike by foreign forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a regional official said.
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Two British soldiers and more than 30 Taliban guerrillas were killed in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, the British and U.S. military said, the latest clashes in a raging insurgency.
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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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Fighting in Afghanistan killed some 75 people as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began, including 45 suspected Taliban militants who died in airstrikes and Afghan army gunfire, officials said Thursday.
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The US-led coalition says it has killed at least 40 suspected Taleban rebels in clashes in Afghanistan.
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More than 30 civilians were reported killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an air strike by foreign forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, a regional official said.
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A six-hour battle in Afghanistan left over 50 Taliban fighters dead or wounded, while a bomber targeting a police patrol killed three civilians, officials said.
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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.