| Six NATO troops were killed in Afghanistan, where around 60 Taliban rebels were also reported dead in two days of fighting. In two days of fighting that ended on Monday in Helmand province around 50 of the rebels were killed, the US-led coalition said. A roadside bomb killed four troops in the east, and injured another, as their vehicle passed by. The Norwegian army in Oslo said one of its special forces troops was killed by Taliban. Two policemen and 26 Islamist fighters were killed on Monday during an operation to clear the main road from the southern province of Kandahar to neighbouring Uruzgan, police said. |