Afghan clashes kill 34 Taliban
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Clashes and bombings killed 34 Taliban fighters and one policeman in Afghanistan, while President Hamid Karzai told the United Nations yesterday that terrorist sanctuaries elsewhere must be destroyed to eliminate the violence engulfing his country.
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Suspected insurgents ambushed a U.S.-led coalition and Afghan patrol in the volatile south, sparking a battle and airstrikes that killed 25 suspected insurgents
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Pro-Taliban militants and security forces reached a cease-fire in a troubled district of Pakistan after the deaths of another 35 rebel fighters and 16 troops, officials said.
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U.S.-led and Afghan troops battled suspected Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday in ground clashes and airstrikes that left over 100 militants dead, the coalition 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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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 23 -- Nearly 100 people, including four U.S. troops, died in clashes in Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday, military spokesmen said, as security forces battled Taliban fighters in a war that has been gaining intensity on both sides of the border.
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A wave of fighting in Afghanistan's south and west killed 16 police and dozens of suspected militants, Afghan officials said Thursday.
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More than 100 insurgents were killed Tuesday in a battle in southern Afghanistan in which fighter aircraft destroyed several rebel positions, the US-led coalition said.
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Taliban fighters killed a former local official and four of his bodyguards in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, then killed 25 members of his family when they went to collect his body, relatives and officials said Monday.
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At least 12 Afghan soldiers are dead after fighting in the south with Taliban fighters, say provincial officials. Thursday&#39;s fighting was a sharp escalation in violence ahead of next month&#39;s landmark presidential election.
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34 guerrillas dead after air sorties and shelling against rebel positions in northern Iraq.
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At least 34 people were killed and dozens injured in gunbattles between Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen loyal to a popular cleric in the southern city of Diwaniyah, officials said Monday.
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International and Afghan forces say they have killed 40 militants in clashes in southern Afghanistan.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - More than a dozen people were killed and more than 30 wounded in Afghanistan on Monday when police opened fire to break up a violent protest against a provincial governor, witnesses and a doctor said.
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A senior Taliban commander involved in the abduction of 23 South Korean missionaries was among dozens of insurgents killed in clashes in southern Afghanistan overnight, police said on Tuesday.
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Nine policemen, two Dutch troops and several Taleban are reported killed in separate clashes in Afghanistan.
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Battles between soldiers and Taliban have raged across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours with more than two dozen rebels killed and a teenage boy dying in the crossfire, the US-led coalition said Friday.