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Article: AFGHANISTAN - June 19 - 30 Killed In Dual Ambushes By Taliban.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- June 24, 2006
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A pair of deadly Taliban ambushes of civilian convoys leave 30 people deadas coalition and Afghan forces kill at least 11 militants in an ongoing US-led offensive across southern Afghanistan. More than 10,000 coalition and Afghan troops are fanning out across four volatile southern provinces to try to kill or capture Taliban militants who are launching attacks from mountain ranges. The militants have been responsible for the deadliest spate of violence since the extremist regime was toppled in 2001 by a US-led invasion force. But despite the launch of Operation Mountain Thrust, the bloodshed has continued. Early June 18, a former district chief in Helmand Province, Jama ...