23 Taliban fighters killed in Afghanistan

September 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least six Taliban fighters were killed and 21 others surrendered to Pakistani security forces during raids and search operations in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in the last 24 hours. According to Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces nabbed three extremists including one of the top Taliban commanders Muhammad Amin Qari during raids in the Swat Valley.

September 13th, 2009 KABUL - Up to 50 Taliban insurgents were killed in a clash in western Afghanistan after the rebels killed 10 soldiers in the region, officials said Sunday. Militants ambushed a convoy of the UN World Food Programme in Bala Bulok district of western Farah province Saturday, provincial governor Ruh-ul-Amin said.

September 12th, 2009 KABUL - Nearly 10 Taliban insurgents were killed Saturday morning in an air strike by international troops in northern Afghanistan, an official said. The attack targeted a Taliban hideout in Wazir village in Kunduz province, the official said.

August 11th, 2009 12 Taliban killed in Afghan clashKABUL — Insurgents killed a NATO soldier during a firefight in eastern Afghanistan, bringing the death toll among foreign troops this month to at least 24, officials said Tuesday. Clashes and airstrikes in the south killed a dozen Taliban fighters, officials said.

August 11th, 2009 12 Taliban fighters killed in Afghan clashKABUL — An Afghan official says clashes and airstrikes in southern Afghanistan have killed a dozen Taliban fighters. Wazir Khan says the militants were killed late Monday inside a compound in an area bordering Ghazni and Zabul provinces.

August 10th, 2009 KABUL - General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of American troops in Afghanistan has warned that the reported death of Tehreek-e-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud could mean more trouble for Afghanistan in the immediate future. "Baitullah Mehsud was putting such pressure on the government of Pakistan that I don't know if his successor or successors will do the same.

July 25th, 2009 RAWALPINDI - At least 21 Taliban fighters have been killed in Swat and Lower Dir regions of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), as security forces continued to pound extremist hideouts in the area. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), military officials nabbed six insurgents during raids in the region.

July 23rd, 2009 RAWALPINDI - The Pakistan Army has killed at least 27 Taliban fighters in various districts of the Malakand division in the last 24 hours. According to an ISPR statement, fighter jets pounded Taliban hideouts in South Waziristan killing six close aides of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud.

July 17th, 2009 KABUL - Taliban commanders delivered an ultimatum to the U.S. military on Thursday to withdraw from south eastern Afghanistan or an American soldier they had captured last week would be killed.

June 24th, 2009 KABUL - Thirty Taliban militants were killed in clashes with NAvTO and Afghan forces in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. A statement from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said 25 Taliban fighters were killed in the southern Kandahar province Tuesday night in a raid on rebel hideouts.

May 30th, 2009 KABUL - Twenty-four people, including 18 suspected Taliban insurgents, were killed as fighting flared up in Afghanistan's northwest Badghis province, its governor said Saturday. "Taliban fighters ambushed a unit of national army soldiers in Balamurghab district Friday and troops returned fire, leaving 18 Taliban rebels dead," Governor Dulbar Jan Arman told Xinhua.

April 30th, 2009 PESHAWAR - At least one person was killed and seven were wounded in a roadside blast near the garrison town of Kohat on Thursday. The blast took place as Shiite Muslims were passing by in a mini-bus.

March 24th, 2009 KABUL - NATO officials are claiming that a senior Taliban leader responsible for numerous roadside bombings and suicide attacks has been killed along with nine other insurgent fighters. Maulawi Hassan, described as a well-known Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan, was killed in an attack on Saturday on his compound near Kajaki, in Helmand Province, the New York Times quoted a NATO statement, as saying.

March 23rd, 2009 KABUL - Ten Taliban militants were killed in fighting with the security forces in southern Afghanistan Friday, officials said. The incident took place in Ghanzi province in southern Afghanistan.

December 30th, 2008 KABUL - Seventeen militants were killed in fighting with the US-led coalition troops in Afghanistan, the US military said Wednesday. Eleven insurgents loyal to Hezbi Islami, an associate group of Taliban militants, were killed in Sarobi district of Kabul province Tuesday, while six militants were killed in NATO-led airstrike in east of the country.