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The soldier died after coming under fire in Helmand on Tuesday, according to the ministry. Meanwhile, Afghan soldiers killed nine Taliban insurgents in a gunfight in Helmand late Monday, an army general reported. "We have killed nine armed Taliban and...
Tags: US Afghanistan, Herat, Ghulam Yahya Akbari, U.S, herat province, gozara district, Gozara, western afghanistan, coalition force
The soldiers were part of a coalition force battling Taliban insurgents near Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan Province. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) says a review of operations in the region has found Australian troops could have been involved. Afghan Government...
Tags: taliban insurgents, ADF, Taliban, coalition force
The soldier, who is not being named by the Australian Defence Force, was part of the Australian Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force in Oruzgan province. The force was providing support to the Afghan army's operations when it was attacked on Monday...
Tags: militants, coalition, killed, attack, Taliban, taliban militants, coalition force, force kill, Afghanistan, police chief
US - Karzai Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants a proper police force, not militias, Chicago Tribune said. The leader of Afghanistan faults US-led forces, saying they have hired warlords who have then been sent to mistreat ordinary Afghans. Afghan President...
Tags: Afghanistan National Country, air strike, U.S, Kandahar, Taliban, afghans militias, Karazi, president karazi, Iraq, coalition force
A man, his wife and their 15-year-old son were killed in a coalition force's raid in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday night, an unnamed local official was quoted by DPA as saying on Wednesday. The official noted that the coalition forces...
Tags: forces, militants, killed, Khost Province, coalition force, Afghanistan, Dr. Bilal
Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces killed 33 militants in a clash Friday in the Nad Ali district of the southern province of Helmand, the US military said in a statement. The combined forces were conducting a security patrol when they...
Tags: coalition force, taliban militants, Afghanistan, Taliban, Zhari district, taliban commander, roadside bomb, Coalition, Helmand
Coalition forces detained seven suspected militants during a combined operation aimed at disrupting the Haqqani terrorist network in Khost province, Wednesday. The province is located, approximately 250 km southeast of Kabul. The combined force searched...
Tags: afghan, afghanistan, forces, kill, Kabul, Haqqani, coalition force, Coalition
Suspected Taliban militants killed a religious leader in western Afghanistan after he criticized the use of suicide attacks in the country, an Afghan official said Friday. Militants kidnapped Shamsudin Agha in Farah province's Anar Dara district on Tuesday,...
Tags: target, Afghanistan, Jalaluddin Haqqani, al-qaeda, Haqqani network, U.S, Sarajuddin Haqqani, eastern afghanistan, coalition force, coalition troops
Two suspected U.S. missile strikes killed 28 people Friday in northwest Pakistan, military sources and local and intelligence officials said. In the first strike, suspected U.S. missiles from two unmanned drones hit a village in North Waziristan, a region...
Tags: pakistan, Afghanistan-Pakistan, Afghan-Pakistan, drone, US Forces Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Taliban, Egyptian Al-Qaeda, U.S. Missiles Kill 27, coalition force
Pakistani intelligence officials said most of the dead were militants, but the attacks will aggravate strains between the two countries over American military assaults on targets in Pakistan. Pakistani officials said two villages in the North Waziristan...
Tags: Pakistani, Afghanistan, American al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn, coalition force, eastern afghanistan, Coalition, Taliban, Ghazni Up, taliban militant