U.S.-led forces have killed 27 Taliban fighters in a series of raids and clashes, days before a meeting of NATO defense ministers to finalize a near-doubling of the alliance’s peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. The raids, conducted last weekend, are the latest in the bloodiest phase yet of a Taliban insurgency that has raged since U.S.-backed forced overthrew the Islamist government in 2001. Some 400 people, mostly militants, were killed in May alone. Full Story
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