Afghan and international troops have killed 14 Taliban militants while eight civilians were killed in separate incidents of violence, Afghan provincial authorities and the US military said on Monday.Six civilians were killed and two more wounded when a minibus hit a roadside bomb in Zana Khan district of Ghazni province on Monday. "The roadside bomb was planted by insurgents who were targeting a foreign or Afghan military convoy using this road," said governor's spokesman Sayed Ismail Jahangir.
Separately, two civilians were killed and three injured when a rocket landed on their home in Khost on Sunday. "The rocket was aimed at a nearby foreign troop base," said the provincial police chief Abdul Qayum Batizoy.
In another incident, international and Afghan troops killed five militants in an operation targeting a foreign fighters' network in Ghazni province on Monday, said a statement by US military.
Nine Taliban insurgents were killed during a joint operation by Afghan and international troops in Ghazni's Waghaz district on Sunday, said provincial police chief Mohammad Zaman.