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Afghan Forces Kill Four Taliban Militants
[Quqnoos] At least four insurgents were killed and two others wounded Sunday in a gun-battle in western Afghanistan, officials said.Afghan forces attacked a group of Taliban fighters in the restive Kushk-e Kohna district of Herat province, a senior local border police official said. In the gun-battle which lasted an hour, Taliban militants detonated a remote-controlled roadside bomb as a police convoy was passing by. The blast caused no casualties to the border police, said the official, Hamidullah Siddiqui. UN Convoy Two other Taliban militants were killed in gun-battle erupted in Herat's neighbouring Badghis province late Saturday. The gunfire took place after the insurgents attacked a UN World Food Programme (WFP) supply convoy in Moqur district, a district official said. Afghanistan suffers heavy fighting as Kabul government backed by the West is planning to initiate talks to the Taliban. Posted by: Fred 2010-02-01 |
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