Afghan Battle Leaves Taliban Dead
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led coalition forces fought with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing belt yesterday, engaging in a daylong battle that left more than 60 Taliban fighters and one coalition soldier dead, military officials said.
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Officials in Afghanistan say security forces have killed a senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan. Government officials say Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar and two followers died in a gunbattle late Saturday in a village in the central province of Uruzgan.
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A NATO soldier and at least 50 Taliban militants were killed when joint NATO and Afghan soldiers clashed with insurgents in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, the alliance said Sunday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 31 -- Taliban insurgents attacked a southern town Thursday, sparking intense fighting with government troops that left two guerrillas dead, the Defense Ministry said.
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An estimated 70 to 80 Taliban militants were killed by NATO soldiers in fighting in southern Afghanistan after police told military authorities where insurgents had gathered, an official said Monday.
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US forces raided a suspected Taliban hideout in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing two fighters and capturing at least one more, officials said. The hourlong battle occurred in Dewalak, a village in Zabul Province along the Pakistani border, said Khial Mohammed, the provincial governor. US troops attacked after surrounding the village and coming under fire from the rebels, he said. The ...
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Taliban gunmen crept up to an Afghan government office under cover of darkness early Wednesday and launched a battle that left three Afghan soldiers and four attackers dead, police said.
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Afghan and NATO troops backed by air power killed 94 Taliban rebels in intense battles overnight in southern Afghanistan.
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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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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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NATO forces cornering Taliban guerrillas   killed up to 60 fighters in artillery and air strikes and   ground battles on Tuesday in a major offensive to crush a   revitalised Taliban in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said.
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Fighting between NATO troops and Taliban fighters killed eight soldiers, including six Westerners, and 10 militants in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks are running at their highest level since the US invasion, officials said yesterday.
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Ten people have been killed in fresh fighting in Afghanistan as security forces carried out clean-up operations after some of the heaviest clashes in months left more than 100 people dead, most of them Taliban.
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NATO-led and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan on Friday, leaving 10 suspected militants dead, an Afghan army officer 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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US and Afghan troops have killed a Taliban commander and detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters in a major search operation after a gun battle in southern Afghanistan.