Afghan and Nato troops kill 36 Taliban rebels in ‘clean-up’
Two Afghan troops also died in the offensive in southern Arghandab district, which was launched after a burst of insurgent activity, including a mass rebel jailbreak in Kandahar, that embarrassed US-allied President Hamid Karzai.
The operation began as Britain announced the deaths elsewhere of four soldiers, one of them reportedly the country’s first female casualty in Afghanistan, while two more Nato soldiers were killed in another incident.
