British troops clear Taliban base at major Afghan hydropower dam
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The British military in Afghanistan announced it had cleared a Taliban base consisting of 25 compounds near a major hydro-electric dam project in the volatile south of the country.
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British troops withdraw from Basra Palace, handing control of base to Iraqi forces.
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NATO and Afghan government forces have  forced Taliban troops out of a southern Afghan district after a  two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of militants  were killed.
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NATO and Afghan government troops have   forced Taliban insurgents out of a southern Afghan district   after a two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of   militants were killed.
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Taliban fighters used children as human shields to flee heavy fighting this week during an operation by foreign and Afghan forces to clear rebels from around a key hydro-electric dam, NATO said on Wednesday.
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Two British soldiers and more than two dozen Islamist Taliban insurgents were killed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the British Ministry of Defence and the U.S. military said.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A commander of Taliban  guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was  captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed  over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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Pakistani forces have cleared militant strongholds from three parts of the South Waziristan region on the Afghan border and 40 militants and eight soldiers have been killed in fighting, the military said on Thursday.
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A British-led multinational force launches an offensive against the Taleban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
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Afghanistan's security forces supported by NATO-led troops will "very soon" launch an operation to clear the southern Afghan town overrun and controlled by Taliban militants, an Afghan official said Saturday.
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A network of well-established Taleban bunkers is found by a British-led force in southern Afghanistan.
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NATO and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan during battles near a beseiged dam and a remote town that was captured by the militants, officials said.
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The Pakistani military says it has knocked out several militant bases in the Afghan border region.
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BAGHDAD -- British troops and armory rolled north from Basra yesterday to take over a deadly area near Baghdad and free up US troops for an expected attack on the rebel-held city of Fallujah.
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British troops have begun pulling out of the southern Iraqi city of Basra in a move north to take over operations previously carried out by US forces.
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The deployment of 3,300 extra British troops to the restive southern province of Helmand in Afghanistan has &amp;quot;energised&amp;quot; the Taliban, Britain&#039;s Defence Secretary Des Browne admitted.
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Pakistani forces have cleared  militant strongholds from three parts of the South Waziristan  region on the Afghan border and 40 militants and eight soldiers  have been killed in fighting, the military said on Thursday.