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Five senior Taliban leaders in Kapisa province, including two behind the Aug. 18 attack on French forces in Kabul, were killed during a series of Coalition raids. A British soldier was killed during a patrol in southern Afghanistan. ISAF soldiers killed a civilian in an escalation of force incident in Helmand province. A 100-man Czech special forces team unit is operating outside of NATO command.
Report: US airstrike kills 4 in North Waziristan
The attack occurred along the border with Afghanistan in territory run by the Haqqani family. This is the fourth cross-border strike in five days.U. S. troops to step up offensive in Afghanistan
How the Taliban gave a French lesson
Ambushed French troops faced large rebel force: officers
Coalition: Senior Taliban leaders killed in Kapisa province
Five Taliban leaders have been killed in fighting north of Kabul, including two who were involved in the deadly Aug. 18 ambush that killed 10 French ISAF soldiers and wounded 21 others.Afghan police killed 32 Taliban fighters during engagements in southern Afghanistan. Three Canadian troops were killed and five were wounded in a "direct fire" incident in the Zari district in Kandahar province. The US military said last week's raid in Azizabad in Herat province resulted in seven civilian casualties, not the 90 cited in the press.
A sting in Pakistan's al Qaeda mission
Nine diggers wounded in Afghan firefight
Saudi al Qaeda commander killed in Afghan clash
An al Qaeda spokesman claims US and Afghan forces killed a senior field commander in southwestern Afghanistan. Commander Abu Gharib al Makki was killed in one of two clashes reported in Farah province in recent fighting.
US releases 3 from Guantanamo Bay prison camp; about 255 left
ISAF denied 500 civilians were killed in the Sarwan Qala area of Helmand province last week. British troops successfully delivered a turbine to the Kajaki Dam in Helmand. Canada's defense minister said the deployment of a US battalion to Kandahar was only the beginning of the US deployment.
Pakistan army 'just miss' Zawahiri
British soldiers kill 200 Taliban in Afghan dam operation
Coalition forces detained seven insurgents in operations targeting Taliban IED networks in the eastern Afghan province of Khost. NATO-led troops accidentally killed three Afghan children with artillery fire in Paktika province. Another raid near Kabul left an Afghan and his two children dead sparking mass protests throughout Kabul. A Taliban car bomber attacked a German convoy in northern Afghanistan.
Afghan and Coalition forces killed more than 220 Taliban fighters during operations in Helmand province from Aug. 25-30. Coalition forces killed "several" Taliban during an operation in Kapisa province. A Coalition soldier was killed in an IED attack in southern Afghanistan. Reports indicate the Taliban will attempt to claim Coalition forces killed Afghans in Helmand province.
Sheikh Said: Al Qaeda's Financier
A suicide bomber wounded one civilian in a failed attack on Coalition forces in Kabul. Ten Taliban fighters were killed in Helmand and 14 were captured in Khost. A battalion of US troops joined Canadian forces in the Maywand district northwest of Kandahar city.
Taliban ambushes in Pakistan threaten Nato's vital logistics route into Afghanistan
Interviews with Top Pakistani Taliban Spokesman Maulvi Omar
