Kabul, June 15 (Xinhua) Afghan forces, backed by NATO aircrafts, have killed 12 Taliban insurgents and a group commander in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, a police officer said Sunday.
Large numbers of US-led NATO troops together with Afghan puppet forces continued a largely fruitless search over the weekend for more than 1,000 prisoners who escaped from a fortress-like jail in the southern city of Kandahar.
Hundreds of anti-war protestors in central London have come together to protest the visit of US President George Bush, on the final part of his European tour.
LONDON, June 15 (KUNA) -- US President George W. Bush has tasked for one final attempt British and US forces to hunt down Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden before leaving the White House, the Sunday Times newspaper reported in its latest edition.
Two British paratroopers were killed in Helmand province earlier this week by UPI NewsTrack FARAH, AFGHANISTAN (UPI and OfficialWire) 06/14/08 -- Military officials said four U.S. soldiers were killed and another was seriously wounded in Afghanistan
By Hamid Shalizi, ReutersKABUL -- U.S-led and Afghan forces killed more than 15 insurgents in a search for hundreds of prisoners, including Taliban, who broke out of jail after comrades blew up the gates, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
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