Four dozen rebels killed in Afghan battle: U.S.
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U.S.-led troops killed more than four dozen insurgents in a battle in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, without any civilian casualties, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed more than 40 Taliban in a 12-hour battle in a restive southern province, taking the guerrilla death toll to nearly 200 in a fortnight, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
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The U.S. military said Monday it was  ready to help the Afghan government quell factional infighting  in western Afghanistan, where 21 people died in clashes at the  weekend.
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition soldiers battled Taliban militants in Afghanistan and called in airstrikes, killing more than 20 insurgents, officials said Wednesday.
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Two NATO soldiers and more than two dozen Islamist Taliban insurgents have been killed in southern Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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Dozens of insurgents killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan, NATO says.
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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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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops, using artillery and airstrikes, killed 33 Taliban fighters after the insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.
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Dozens of militants were killed in southern and eastern Afghanistan overnight in clashes with U.S.-led foreign troops and Afghan forces, officials said on Saturday.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
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Airstrikes and Afghan army gunfire killed more than 45 suspected Taliban fighters in a clash in a southern province just as the holy month of Ramadan began, the U.S.-led coalition said.
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As many as three American soldiers were killed and 14 others injured in a series of fierce engagements with suspected Taliban fighters earlier this week, theUS military confirmed Wednesday.
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The US-led military coalition in Afghanistan killed more than 20 Taliban militants in a prolonged clash Sunday in troubled Helmand province, a coalition statement said.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces killed scores of Taliban insurgents in two separate battles in southern Afghanistan, the U.S military said on Wednesday.
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Afghan troops and soldiers from the U.S.-led force in Afghanistan killed more than three dozen Taliban insurgents in the south of the country, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement on Tuesday.
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An unidentified coalition soldier was killed during an assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan as a Spanish soldier and 21 rebels were killed in weekend violence.
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U.S.-led coalition troops clashed with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Friday, killing seven of the militants, the U.S. military said.