18 insurgents killed in Afghanistan
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A suicide car bomber struck a NATO-Afghan military convoy Tuesday, killing two civilians and wounding one in the violence-wracked south, and a remote-controlled bomb killed two police officers on patrol.
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About 80 Taliban fighters were believed killed in a clash with NATO-led troops and Afghan security forces in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan at the weekend, a NATO spokesman has said.
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(CBS/AP) US forces backed by helicopter gunships killed 22 insurgents, including several Arabs, in southern Afghanistan, the US military said Monday.
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More than 50 insurgents and two police are reported killed in battles in north-west and southern Afghanistan.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan police killed 33 Taliban insurgents after a roadside bomb detonated by militants killed eight policemen in the southern province of Kandahar, the provincial governor said on Tuesday.
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The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has said it has killed 23 insurgents in new clashes and had wound down an anti-Taliban mission in the west of the country after meeting little resistance.
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More than 100 Afghan insurgents are killed in a major battle in Kandahar province, Nato-led forces say.
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The Afghan army killed four insurgents on Sunday, the Defense Ministry said, the first fighting near the former Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala since it was captured from the militants five days ago.
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Fierce fighting and roadside bomb blasts in Afghanistan killed six Afghan soldiers and more than 20 Taliban rebels, officials said Tuesday, as the Islamist insurgency raged unabated.
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Dozens of Taliban insurgents have been   killed in the latest clashes in the Afghan south where foreign   and government forces have been engaged in fierce combat in   recent weeks.
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Witnesses said Sunday that clashes between coalition troops and Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan left at least 18 civilians dead. NATO officials, however, said no noncombatants were killed.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed nearly three dozen insurgents overnight in a series of confrontations in southern areas rife with Taliban guerrillas, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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Afghanistan&#39;s efforts to stem opium production have left 18 police dead and another 33 wounded this year, most of them in clashes during poppy eradication, a deputy minister said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters have seized 18 Afghan mine-clearing specialists and threatened to kill them if investigations suggest they are working for US-led forces in the country, officials and the insurgents said yesterday.
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KABUL -- US troops and helicopter gunships killed 22 militants, including three Arab fighters in southern Afghanistan, the military said yesterday, in the latest bloodshed ahead of historic Afghan elections.
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - Islamist militants have killed 18 Pakistani soldiers in the restive North Waziristan tribal region, intelligence officials said on Tuesday.
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Taliban militants killed five people in an ambush Sunday while U.S.-led coalition troops moved deeper into Afghanistan&#039;s southern mountains in an offensive that has killed about 90 insurgents in less than a week, officials said.