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Afghanistan |
Eight 'Taliban', 5 Afghan troops killed in clash |
2007-04-01 |
![]() Five Afghan troops were killed and one was wounded in the clash, NATOÂ’s International Security Assistance force said in a statement. Separately, coalition and Afghan troops on Friday detained a suspected local Taliban leader who was reportedly involved in an assassination attempt on a powerful tribal elder in Kandahar province on March 9, a coalition statement said. The militant, who was not named, was arrested alongside two other men in the southern village of Maranjan, in Kandahar province, the statement said. |
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