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2 NATO troops, 2 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
Two NATO soldiers died battling militants in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while United States-led and Afghan troops backed by air strikes killed two militants and detained nine others, officials said. The two soldiers from NATOs International Security Assistance (ISAF) force died in separate engagements with enemy fighters, an ISAF statement said. While declining to issue details of where the combat took place, the 37-nation force said that the nationalities of the soldiers would be announced by their home countries. But the US-led coalition said separately that at least one of the deaths was in Helmand province, where most of Britains deployment of 5,200 soldiers is based. The new deaths take to 79 the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year, most of them in hostile action and about half of them US nationals. Separately on Wednesday, coalition and Afghan troops raided a suspected Taliban hideout in Zabul province, detaining 10 suspected fighters, the coalition said. Two of the ten were apprehended while trying to flee. Also on Wednesday, the provincial governor of the eastern Paktika province, Mohammad Akrem Akhpelwak, confirmed that a local district police chief had been killed while trying to remove a mine from a road, believed to have been planted by the Taliban. Posted by: Fred 2007-06-07 |
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