U.S. Attacks Kill 65 Suspected Taliban
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Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces were attacked by insurgents during a combat patrol in southern Afghanistan and called in airstrikes, killing more than 65 suspected militants, the coalition said.
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U.S.-led troops killed one suspected militant and detained six others, including one with alleged links to fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, in a string of raids in eastern Afghanistan, the American military said Friday.
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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.
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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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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed some 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle after an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 5 -- U.S. forces killed nine Afghan civilians Sunday night while bombing a house where two Taliban insurgents had taken refuge, Afghan authorities said Monday.
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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.
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Two battles killed more than 165 Taliban fighters and a U.S.-led coalition soldier in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday as President Hamid Karzai prepared to discuss the escalating violence with President Bush in New York
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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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KABUL, Afghanistan - US-led forces used artillery and air strikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said yesterday.
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Two battles killed more than 165 Taliban fighters and a U.S.-led coalition soldier in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday as President Hamid Karzai prepared to discuss the escalating violence with President Bush in New York.
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KABUL - Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed more than 60 Taliban in battles in restive southern Afghanistan, taking the guerrilla death toll to more than 200 in two weeks, the US military 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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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed some 80 Taliban fighters in a six-hour battle following an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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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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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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MINGORA, Pakistan  - Islamist militants killed at least 21 people in what may have been a suicide attack on an army convoy in northwest Pakistan, where a Taliban-style movement has taken root, officials said on Thursday.