NATO strike kills Taliban commander in Afghan hotspot
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Warplanes struck a Taliban compound in southern Afghanistan with &quot;precision munitions,&quot; killing an area commander and about 10 of his men, the NATO force said.
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NATO aircraft have killed 23 suspected insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said Sunday.
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Two NATO soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, the alliance said on Monday.
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A British soldier was killed and another NATO troop wounded in attacks in Afghanistan early while police said they killed 10 Taliban who tried to capture a district headquarters.
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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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A top NATO alliance general said yesterday that Afghanistan's Taliban militia has lost its ability to control large swaths of territory, even if the hard-line Islamic movement remains strong in "small pockets" of the country.
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Insurgents attacked a NATO patrol in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing one NATO soldier and wounding eight, a spokesman for the NATO force said. One soldier was missing, presumed dead.
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Afghan soldiers killed a senior Taliban commander and two fighters during an ambush in a central province where clashes with coalition forces are escalating.
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Several Taliban fighters were killed on Monday in an attack targeting a senior guerrilla leader closely linked to the Islamist movement's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement.
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A suicide bomber assassinated an Afghan   provincial governor on Sunday, as NATO said it killed almost   100 more Taliban fighters in its biggest offensive against the   resurgent Islamist group.
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(Kandahar, Afghanistan-AP) Sept. 26, 2004 - Afghan officials say an alleged senior Taliban commander and two fighters have been killed in a raid on a village home in southern Afghanistan.
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NATO-led troops dropped leaflets on a southern Afghan town overrun by militants, warning the fighters to leave after their leader was killed in a targeted airstrike, officials said Monday.
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A roadside bomb killed a NATO soldier and wounded four others in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, while a Taliban ambush left eight Afghan security personnel dead, officials said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A senior commander from  Afghanistan's Taliban militia previously held at a U.S. base in  Guantanamo Bay was killed by Afghan forces in the central  province of Uruzgan, a senior official said on Sunday.
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Key commander in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, is killed in missile hit on Pakistan compound.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 9 -- NATO and Afghan soldiers killed at least 40 suspected Taliban fighters in fierce raids that destroyed insurgent hideouts and a weapons factory, the European military alliance said Saturday. One NATO soldier also died.
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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.