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Around 100 Taliban stormed a remote police post, sparking lengthy exchanges that left 10 militants and a policeman dead, while five rebels died elsewhere, officials said on Tueday, AFP reported.After 11 hours of fighting overnight in the western province of Farah, the attackers left three bodies at the scene and took the rest with them, provincial police operations chief Juma Khan told AFP. “Ten Taliban were killed, 10 Taliban were wounded and a policeman was also martyred in the battle,” Khan said.
In another incident on Monday, four Taliban were killed when NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) ambushed them in the eastern province of Paktika. “ISAF ambushed the Taliban as they crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan. Their bodies were brought to the provincial capital,” said army spokesman Colonel Muhammad Gul. The troops also seized 36 anti-personnel and anti-tank land mines, he added. ISAF could not immediately comment.
Roadside bomb: In Kabul, A NATO airstrike on militants planting a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan left five suspected insurgents dead, officials said Tuesday, AP reported. The strike happened as the group was spotted digging on the road and laying a roadside bomb in Bermel district, in Paktika province late Sunday, said Sgt 1st Class Dean Welch, a US-led coalition spokesman. Authorities retrieved the bodies, which were later handed over to village elders from Bermel, said Provincial Police Chief Nabi Jan Mullahkheil.
Two Afghan men working for a Danish aid group were freed by the criminal gang that abducted them after relatives negotiated their release, AFP reported. The driver and technician for the Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees were freed Monday in Logar province, near Kabul, after nine days in captivity, said spokesman Christian Jepsen. “Their relatives negotiated the release directly with the kidnappers,” Jepsen told AFP. “There were no political demands,” he said.