US coalition: 35 militants killed, 13 wounded in southern Afghanistan

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.

July 12th, 2009 KABUL - Five police personnel were killed in a roadside bomb blast in central Afghanistan, while Afghan and coalition forces killed 12 militants in the southern region, officials said Sunday. The police personnel were driving in a private vehicle Saturday afternoon in Charkh district of Logar province when they were hit by a roadside bomb, Mustafa Khan Mosseni, the provincial police chief said.

June 30th, 2009 12 militants killed in Afghan airstrikeKABUL — The U.S.-led coalition says airstrikes have killed over a dozen militants allegedly involved in the movement of foreign fighters into Afghanistan from Pakistan. The coalition said in a statement Tuesday that the strikes targeted insurgents linked to a militant leader Siraj Haqqani in eastern Khost province.

June 24th, 2009 23 Taliban killed in southern AfghanistanKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Afghan and coalition forces killed 23 suspected Taliban fighters in a clash in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan army general said Wednesday. The authorities recovered the bodies and the militants' weapons after the fighting Tuesday near Tirin Kot, the capital of southern Uruzgan province, said Gen.

May 23rd, 2009 KABUL - Sixty Taliban militants have been killed in clashes with the Afghan and US-led coalition troops in southern Helmand province, officials said Saturday. "The Afghan National Army Commandos of the 205th Corps, assisted by coalition forces, killed 60 militants in Marja city in Helmand province," the Afghan and coalition troops said in a joint statement.

May 3rd, 2009 2 Afghan children killed by bomb on bicycleKABUL — A bomb placed on a bicycle in a busy market killed four people Sunday, including two children, while American fighter aircraft and ground forces killed 19 militants near the Pakistan border, officials said. The bicycle bomb went off in Gereshk district of southern Helmand province.

May 3rd, 2009 KABUL - Three civilians including two children were killed and eight wounded Sunday in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said. The victims, including an eight-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, were killed in the blast at a main market in Gerishk district of southern Helmand province Sunday morning, the ministry said in a statement.

May 3rd, 2009 KABUL - Four civilians, including two children, were killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, while four Afghan army soldiers and 31 Taliban militants were killed elsewhere in the country, officials said Sunday. In the latest incident, an eight-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy and two adult civilians were killed in Gerishk district of southern Helmand province Sunday morning.

April 27th, 2009 KABUL - Five Afghan policemen and two civilians were killed in a roadside bomb blast in a restive southern province, where five Taliban militants were also killed, officials said Monday. The five insurgents were killed by Afghan and coalition forces in Zharai district of the southern province of Kandahar Monday morning, the US military said in a statement.

April 6th, 2009 KABUL - Fourteen militants have been killed by the Afghan army and US-led coalition forces in Qalat district in southern Afghanistan, the army said in a statement here. 'The Afghan National Army (ANA) led force conducted a combat reconnaissance patrol in an area of known militant presence when they were attacked by armed militants with heavy small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire,' it said Sunday.

April 2nd, 2009 KABUL - Twenty suspected Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike carried out by the US-led coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, officials said in a statement Thursday. The airstrike was prompted after Taliban militants attacked Afghan and international troops in southern Afghanistan.

March 28th, 2009 KABUL - Two dozen Taliban militants were killed in three separate clashes with Afghan and US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan's volatile south, officials said Saturday. The US-led coalition forces said their troops, backed by Afghan forces, killed 12 militants in a night-time raid in Nahr Surkh district of southern Helmand province, some 125 km west of Kandahar city, the US military said in a statement.

March 2nd, 2009 KABUL - An Afghan child was killed and five civilians were wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan, while eight militants were killed in two clashes elsewhere in the country, officials said Sunday. The bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near a convoy of NATO forces outside of Nangahar provincial capital Sunday, wounding six people including three children, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for the provincial governor said.

December 25th, 2008 KABUL - The US-led coalition forces have killed 11 Taliban militants and arrested two during an operation in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a coalition statement said Friday. Coalition forces targeted militants responsible for a series of roadside bomb attacks, including the recent ones that killed a number of NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) soldiers in Maiwand district of Kandahar, the statement said.