80 Taliban Killed, Military Says
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KABUL — American-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.
Also yesterday, suicide bomber wearing an Afghan security uniform detonated his explosives at the entrance to a combined American-Afghan base in the east of the country, killing four Afghan soldiers and a civilian, officials said.
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