NATO begins Afghan spring offensive in Helmand
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NATO began its spring offensive against the Taliban on Tuesday, launching its biggest attacks since the 2001 war on Taliban rebels and Afghan drug lords.
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Thousands of U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops on Saturday launched a large-scale anti-Taliban operation in five Afghan provinces, the coalition said.
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The 18,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan have begun a new offensive to hunt Taliban and al-Qaida militants through the country's harsh winter, aiming to sap their strength ahead of planned spring elections, the American military said Saturday.
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Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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The US-led coalition has launched a winter offensive against Taliban militias, US military spokesman said Saturday. The US-led coalition has launched a winter offensive against
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The Nato alliance is to assume charge of security over the entirety of Afghanistan on Thursday.
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NATO's top commander on Thursday urged allied nations to send reinforcements to southern Afghanistan, where resurgent Taliban militants are inflicting heavy casualties on foreign forces and have captured a remote town for the second time in two months.
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NATO launched its largest offensive since 2001 in an effort to preempt a Taliban attack.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) reinforced its security forces in Afghanistan Friday as part of international efforts to safeguard the presidential election on October 9.
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Thousands of Afghan and foreign security forces kicked off a major new offensive against the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan as a NATO-led operation wound down in the south.
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NATO troops assumed command Monday of military operations in southern Afghanistan from the U.S.-led coalition, the coalition said.
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Coalition and national troops battled militants in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the eve of a sweeping anti-Taliban offensive by U.S.-led forces &amp;#151; their biggest since the Islamic extremist government&#039;s 2001 ouster.
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About 18,000 American troops have started a winter-long operation against Taliban rebels in Afghanistan, vowing to eliminate insurgents who could threaten parliamentary elections slated for the spring.
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NATO is set to assume command of US-led troops in eastern Afghanistan, completing its expansion across the country in a move that the alliance describes as the most significant in its history.
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Afghan and international forces laid a security ring around Kabul on Monday in preparation for the inauguration of Hamid Karzai as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected
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US-led forces in the east of Afghanistan have begun a major offensive against the Taleban, military officials say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO forces yesterday launched the alliance's largest offensive against insurgents in southern Afghanistan, marking the start of what both sides predict will be an intense round of fighting over the spring and summer.