'Militants' die in Afghan clash
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Nato-led troops in southern Afghanistan say they have killed 10 militants as the alliance claims a big victory.
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More than 100 suspected insurgents were killed in a battle with U.S.-led troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
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At least 40 militants and eight Pakistan soldiers have been killed in 24 hours of intense fighting in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan, the military said Thursday.
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U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with insurgents during while searching a compound near the Pakistani frontier on Friday, leaving one coalition soldier dead, a statement said.
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KABUL - Taliban attacks killed two British soldiers and two Afghan police officers yesterday in restive southern Afghanistan, while nearly 30 militants were killed elsewhere, authorities said. The two British soldiers were killed in an explosion as they patrolled in southern Helmand province, the UK's defense ministry said. Earlier yesterday, insurgents detonated a remote-controlled bomb under a police vehicle in ...
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More than 165 Taliban fighters have been killed in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, following fierce fighting between militants and coalition forces, Nato said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's recent spate of violence claimed the lives of two more NATO soldiers yesterday , while the death toll in June among militants rose to 200.
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Four militants and two policemen die in a clash near Gudermes in Russia's volatile southern republic of Chechnya.
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Afghan and NATO forces clashed with Taliban militants in a dangerous southern region overnight, leaving 33 suspected insurgents dead, the provincial governor said Tuesday.
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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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At least 10 people are reported dead after Pakistani tribesmen and foreign militants clash near the Afghan border.
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Afghan and US-led forces killed 36 Taliban militants in several hours of fighting in southern Afghanistan Thursday, while an Afghan policeman also died, officials said.
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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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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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29 September 2004 -- Afghan police said Taliban militants attacked an Afghan government office early this morning and launched a gun battle that left four attackers and three Afghan troops dead.
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At least 16 Taliban rebels including a suspected would-be suicide bomber were killed in US-led and Afghan operations across insurgency-plagued Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
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Two British soldiers and more than 30 Taliban guerrillas were killed in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, the British and U.S. military said, the latest clashes in a raging insurgency.