 US aircraft pummelled pro-Taliban forces on either side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, while Afghan police battled 50 armed militants in the south, in clashes that killed at least 11 insurgents, officials said on Tuesday.
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At least five Afghan soldiers were also killed, including four in a Tuesday roadside bombing during a joint operation with US forces in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. Militants detonated a powerful roadside bomb as a joint-Afghan-US patrol passed in Kunar, killing four Afghan soldiers and wounding two, said a coalition military spokesperson.
US warplanes fired two Hellfire missiles and dropped one bomb on a suspected Taliban camp in the Lashkar Gah district of southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, which borders Pakistan, killing three militants late on Monday before another fled.
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Separately, about 50 Taliban militants raided a police checkpoint in Miana Shien district, local official Shabi Khan said. The gunfight continued into Tuesday morning, leaving five Taliban and one policeman dead, Khan said.
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