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One soldier from US-led forces was also killed and four others wounded, while another 65 Taliban were killed in the Uruzgan province on Tuesday, the US military said. The Taliban rejected the claims as "little more than propaganda".
A Taliban spokesman told Al Jazeera: "Everyone knows we control that area, how possibly could the coalition stand there and count the bodies." Alan Fisher, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Afghanistan, said residents in the area also reported several civilians being killed.
Ambush attempt
The clashes in Uruzgan erupted when Taliban fighters attempted to ambush a combat patrol of foreign and Afghan troops.
"Coalition air strike and artillery was requested from ground commanders to repel the Taliban attack which killed more than 65 insurgents," the statement said, adding the fighters numbered more than 80.
Three civilians were wounded in the crossfire and evacuated to a military medical facility nearby. No Afghan or US-led forces were hurt, the statement read.
In Musa Qala, Taliban fighters attacked foreign and Afghan troops, according to the US military.
"Members of the 205th Afghan National Army Corps ... killed more than 100 insurgents in an engagement, which has been on-going since yesterday morning near Musa Qala," the military said in its statement.
Read MoreThey say that more than 65 insurgents were killed in Uruzgan province on Tuesday night, and at least 60 were killed in neighbouring Helmand.
Villagers say that 12 civilians in the Helmand attack died in air strikes and 50 families fled their homes.
The conflicting claims could not be independently verified.
Violence has soared in Afghanistan and more than 3,000 people have been killed this year as Afghan and foreign forces battle Taleban fighters.
UN address
In recent times, there has been heavy fighting between US-led forces and Taleban militants in southern Afghanistan.
A coalition statement said that violence in Uruzgan began when Afghan and US-led coalition forces were attacked by insurgents while on patrol.
They called in air strikes, and more than 65 suspected militants - armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars were killed, the coalition statement said.
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