Afghan fighting kills 16 police
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A wave of fighting in Afghanistan's south and west killed 16 police and dozens of suspected militants, Afghan officials said Thursday.
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Suicide attackers detonated two bombs in Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three policemen, after a dozen militants were killed in an overnight battle, officials and the U.S. military said.
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Clashes between the Yemeni army and followers of a Shiite rebel leader have killed 16 troops and 69 guerrillas during the past three days, military officials said Tuesday.
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Taliban insurgents ambushed a police patrol in southern Afghanistan killing eight, a police commander said, while a suicide bombing and another gunfight claimed four more officers in a weekend of violence.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in separate clashes in a southern Afghan province where hundreds of militants have gathered, a police official said Tuesday.
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GAUHATI -- Fifteen police officers were killed yesterday when suspected rebels ambushed their patrol , officials said. Sixty armed officers in the Bishenpur District were traveling in six vehicles when rebels fired on them. The rebels fled into a forest.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - More than a dozen people were killed and more than 30 wounded in Afghanistan on Monday when police opened fire to break up a violent protest against a provincial governor, witnesses and a doctor said.
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At least 16 Taliban rebels including a suspected would-be suicide bomber were killed in US-led and Afghan operations across insurgency-plagued Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
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Police opened fire to disperse break up a street fight between supporters of Bangladesh's governing party and an opposition group Monday, killing at least one person and injuring more than 100, a regional police chief said.
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Six Taliban militants and an Afghan army soldier have been killed in clashes across insurgency-hit Afghanistan over the past few days, the Afghan defence ministry said.
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A battle between police and Taliban left 20 suspected militants and two policemen dead in northwestern Afghanistan, while airstrikes and clashes left another 27 militants dead in the south, officials said Sunday.
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Taliban militants ambushed a truck full of Afghan police in southern Afghanistan, killing four officers and injuring three, an official said Saturday.
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Insurgents stormed a police station in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 16 policemen in one of the deadliest attacks in weeks. The well-organised assault shows the continuing
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More than 100 Taliban fighters raid police compound in western Afghanistan, killing two policemen, an official said.
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At least 11 people were killed in the southern Afghan province of Zabul when fighting erupted after federal troops began disarming police and militia, officials said on Tuesday.
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British and Afghan forces battled Taliban holdouts Thursday after repelling a brazen insurgent attack on a police headquarters a day earlier in a southern town, killing at least 19 militants, a local official said.
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A Taliban attack on a police post in western Afghanistan sparked a battle that left at least 20 militants and four police dead, a provincial governor said.