Police say fresh clashes between security forces and fighters with the Taliban have left 25 militants and six policemen dead in southern Afghanistan.

The U.S. military says Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed dozens of Taliban fighters in southern Uruzgan province.

Afghan and NATO troops killed more than 30 Taliban fighters during a battle lasting several hours in southern Afghanistan, police and the defence ministry say.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte says Washington has complained to Beijing about Chinese weapons shipments to Iran that appear to be turning up in the hands of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

Air strikes were called in after a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol was ambushed in the southern province of Oruzgan today. The coalition says the clash left about 11 Taliban fighters dead.

Dutch military chief General Dick Berlijn says Taliban fighters were executing civilians who refused to fight alongside them during a battle earlier this month.

The U.S. military says coalition forces and Afghan police backed by coalition warplanes killed more than 20 suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan.

British and U.S. forces in southern Afghanistan have not yet been able to claim success on their key stated objective despite a major NATO offensive against the Taliban.

The U.S. military says coalition forces and Afghan police backed by coalition warplanes killed more than 20 suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan.

Afghan officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up on a road outside the city of Konduz in northern Afghanistan today, killing two Afghan civilians.

The Taliban's newly named top field commander purtportedly warned in a first public statement that Taliban fighters would continue their holy war until Western powers leave Afghanistan.

Afghan police say air strikes by NATO-led forces killed 60 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar Province overnight. Provincial police chief Esmatullah Alizai said the strikes targeted at least one gathering of Taliban fighters in the province late May 14.